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It takes very little hilite to produce the effects like this Hard Candy I’m seeing. You are prolly using too much. In 4 oz of plastic you will only want to use about the size of a matchstick. What is called a smidge in measuring spoons. A little goes a long way.

Exactly! Hilite into cold plastic, pearl into hot plastic.

Hi, I am doing my first baby steps with resin printed moulds. For me it will be especially interesting to see:1) how to avoid warping of the print, so that the fit perfectly.2)how to avoid dents and get the tails completely filled up.3) which is the most thin part you were able to fill.4) which was the most difficult mold you made.5)which resin you use. Thanks a lot in advance! Best, Nico

Nailed it! Also a neat little trick I learned with hi-lites is I had much better luck when adding the powder to cold plastic. Seemed to separate better that way and not as clumpy. Good luck!

As soon as I get one, I'll be happy to pass it along!

Hey Mr. Moderator, I think I should get a 31 point credit...moving on up!

Thx guys for the info.i did get one from basstackle and I love it.ot works flawlessly.i wish I did haha.

While I’m no hard bait expert, I have mastered the technical details of going from a CAD design in Fusion 360 to CAM Toolpaths and can produce a lure I can experiment with. I think the repeatable nature of this will allow me to ‘fiddle’ with this design until it performs exactly like I want. It takes 22 minutes of machine time to produce the lure I posted. Is anyone here interested in me starting a YouTube channel where I document this process and future projects? Here are the lures I have planned: Small 3-5 -4 inch Muskie crankbait 5 inch Shad Muskie bait with aluminum lip that’s balanced for that lip crappie crankbait set like bandit 100/200/300 but my own design Shad Rap 5 &7 like but my own design Perfectly Balanced Muskie Glide Bait perfectly balanced jointed swim bait (I realized how a CNC built bait can be perfectly balanced/tuned with resin injection when Nate Marling cut a Roman Mother on two on a YouTube video he pondered why it had internal pockets with resin) a big deep diving crankbait that can be trolled 10-20mph to use for wahoo Is there interest in seeing this on YouTube? It took me two years of my spare time to figure this out. Now it seems simple to me, but there’s really very little information out there. The best info I found focused on electric guitar body building on the CNC. A simple fishing lure might be more complex than the woodwork for an electric guitar I might argue

I’m doing some interesting stuff with the lip where it gets locked in when you glue the two halves together. I think it’s cool.

I have had some success with my CNC lure making. I ultimately found the little Sherline based CNC mill had too small of a work envelope. Then I went down a rabbit hole. I decided I needed CNC Router and wanted a 2 x 3 ft XY range so I could use it for woodworking also. To keep costs down, I built my own from a kit called Gatton CNC. Here’s the machine I built.