Salty's

One other thing I just thought of also...I've seen problem between paints, primers, and clears also....put primer on a lure body...good adhesion....put paint on it and still good adhesion....put topcoat on it and the thing turns into a brittle coating on the lure...different products attack/eat into paints and primers differently. If you are using solvent based stuff try to make sure that all the solvents are from the same family....xylene with xylene etc. You can see alot of info looking at a MSDS on a product to find out what it's made of to determine if it's compatible with something else.

If the paint is coming off in sheets it means the clear is adhering to the paint just fine unless the clear is peeling separately from the paint....it's the paint to primer adhesion or the primer to wood that is the problem. Most likely the primer to wood. Reason being is that each layer adheres to the previous...top coat to paint, paint to primer, primer to sealer, sealer to wood. Where it stops peeling is where the problem is. If you can't see primer anymore then it's primer to wood. If you lose topcoat and paint but the primer stays on the wood then it's paint to primer adhesion which is bad. The weakest adhesion point is where it happens. Most times when you see a paint adhesion problem like this where it comes off in sheets you can usually find that the lure swelled from water intrusion....when it swells it no longer allows the coating to adhere due to the new larger size and it comes off in sheets like you describe. A few tests you can do....measure the diameter of a lure that has paint on it, then dunk it in water....then measure it again. If it swells significantly then it's absorbing water and you need to change your sealer. Also take a lure and cut a crosshatch pattern into it...4-5 lines in each direction like a tic tac toe board...then cover it with a real strong packing type of tape to simulate ASTM adhesion testing tape....rub the tape down so you know it's sticking good....then pull the tape up....good adhesion shouldn't allow much if any paint to come up on the tape....if your tape is full of paint etc then there's your problem. What comes up on the tape will also give you a clue where the adhesion problem is.

be very careful with Freightquote.com-they screwed me for $1000 last year. on a pickup. Tried to tell me it was triple the weight they measured it at then threatened to take me to collections for it. No way to measure it 4 weeks later when the invoice showed up in the mail and the stuff had been used 1/2 way.....they had no problem losing 1 skid either

Any plumbing supply house has nice stuff that is easy to work with, usually about $1 a lb.

Biggest on one of mine so far. 37 lbs, black purple 2.5 needlefish at 9:30pm last fall.

It's a great idea too. I used to make a pencil popper that had magnum screw eyes in it, I took a B&D cordless screwdriver, cut the straight blade bit off the tip, and used a dremel tool to make a groove in it to accept the screw eyes and turn them with the cordless driver. Worked great. I made probably 1000 poppers like that with three screw eyes in each one. Tom's idea takes mine one step further and has a lip on each side to keep it from slipping off which was a potential problem with mine.

Joe I'm not going to get into the whole thing online but I had researched this extensively last year. You pay excise on the WHOLESALE price of the lure or bait....If you're paying 10% off the top you're paying too much. You should speak with your local IRS rep on this.

I haven't used the stuff in a while but from memory you probably had the problem because it wasn't mixed enough. Mix with a round stick, don't use popsicle sticks as they aspirate moisture and air in the mix. Also with epoxies you do NOT want to use extra hardener, epoxies require equal amounts of resin and hardener, adding more hardener is not going to do anything because that's not how they work. It will also cause drying problems too. If you think you mixed it enough then mix it some more. Stuff is picky to get mixed right. The 2 cup method is a good idea but make sure it's still mixed properly. Every time I hear of drying problems it's usually due to insufficient mixing. Been there done that....stinks when you coat a beautiful lure and it doesn't cure.. you learn quick

make sure your guides are adjusted properly also. If not it will cause the blade to wander and twist. If you got cheap guides get some of the good ceramic one's they make a difference.

Thompsons is nothing more than kerosene and parafin wax. Won't hold paint due to the wax.

YOBUBBA

#1 trash the postal service #2 use UPS and UPS only for stuff that needs to be tracked and insured. Don't care what anyone says the post office cannot track a package anywhere near as well as UPS can...... If you send something by any means which cannot provide proof of delivery and the product was paid by credit card then you automatically lose a dispute of charges because you have no way of showing it was ever delivered. UPS solves this and many other problems.

booger

I just noticed you said you sprayed a piece of cardboard and it still does it, then there's something wrong with the paint you are spraying.

whatever you are spraying over is OIL based and you are spraying LATEX. Switch primers is my guess.

Delta midi lathe is a decent lathe, better quality than the Grizzlies etc etc. Jet is the same too. You get what you pay for....

If you use it outside and your colors will fade very quickly if it's not UV stable.

As far as I've seen on all the Createx colors they are UV stable, it's just the other brush style acrylics that I have found not to be.

Also one thing to remember....some of the acrylics you can buy in the stores are not UV stable either.....

I do this on some colors already like Olive and Hot pink cuz Createx doesnt make Olive and their hot pink stinks. Use Liquitex to thin it. If you can't shoot Createx white under 60 psi you got problems somewhere with your airbrush. I can shoot white at 20 psi right outta the jug with my Pasche VL. Check and make sure you don't have gooped up stuff inside???

yea but Skeeter don't forget some guys are workin in their basements and laq paint is a no no like that... Jackll what are you using for primer? Make sure it's not oil based/alkyd as that will cause the Createx to bead etc.

Switch to a smaller needle/head, use less paint in the air/paint mix, and make sure your paint is compatible with what is underneath it.

looks ESPECIALLY good when it get all clodded up with sawdust from the floor ohh the joys of luremaking

Works pretty well actually, I tired it earlier this year. Better to spray it in a few coats though, it really brings out the colors in the lures!

try Createx chameleon gold over white and dark....makes kinda a neat gold fog color on the white when looked at from an angle.