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I like working with foil as I can get some really cool effects with it. Here’s some topwaters I did in various paint patterns.

If you are doing a flat face on both sides, you can put the jig in a vice and slowly close the vice. It is crude but it does work. Hopefully, you don't have a lot of them to do as this is time consuming.

Late to the party today. LOL. Arne.

Nailed it.......for now.......

Don't forget the difficult-to-paint patterns such as the all-white and the all-black. And if you want to get truly artsy, you could add a bit of red to throat.

The top bait is a Gary Yamamoto Chikara crankbait. The leaping bass in the pupil is the tell tale sign. The second bait is similar to a Mister Twister, Bandit or Bill Lewis crankbait. It could also be a knockoff. They all had a groove going down the body coming from the lip. Bandit and Bill Lewis typically had painted on eyes. My guess would be the Mister Twister crankbait because some of their baits had recessed eye sockets with flat tape eyes. I think the Mister Twister bait was called the SportFisher. It sometimes came with painted eyes and sometimes had the tape eye in a recessed socket.