benton B
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Iwata is the only brand of airbrush I've used and I recommend the eclipse and micron.
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super glue is not a good sealer by itself, need to do a coat of devcon before painting and clear coat. I've used just super glue on baits I've wanted to fish and the same thing happened. What super glue does for a wood bait is give the wood a good hard outer shell to resist dents and dings.
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Recommendations for someone to paint Predator Wiggle Warts...
benton B replied to Puma's topic in Hard Baits
Tackle Kraft, TK Stanley can lay down some color and his craw patterns are 2nd to none. -
I just bend the tail prop to counter the nose prop, I've not seen any blades advertised as counter rotating. I'm sure the companies that use those blades just order a large number of blades.
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Iwata Eclipse HP-CS, Revolution HP-CR are the only brushes I've owned for 20yrs.
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The way I seal balsa wood cranks is as follows, 1 coat of super glue then lightly sand, 1 coat of flex coat rob builder's epoxy, scuff with 320 grit, prime, paint, and clear coat with flex coat ultra v high build. I have foiled baits over 10yrs old that have held up. I've been building since 2002 and never had a issue with my seal coat peeling off of foil.
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I think the tail is too long and the flat nose needs to be flat. Put the line tie at the very back of that flat nose. I've build more than a few floating lipless baits and the ballast is forward in the body so it sits nose down at rest.
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I do my sealer coat over the foil then paint and clear coat. My foil baits have held up for yrs.
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Look at candy foils but be aware the back side is still sliver. It's very thin foil and does not take patterns well.
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rod builders epoxy is good for sealer coat but I would not use it to clear coat, no uv additives in that porduct
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Flex Coat Ultra V high build is a very good clear coat. Takes a long time to cure so spin those baits for about 3hrs.
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cut the lip slot first, then cut out the body
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I recommend you use circuit board material for you deep divers.
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I've found that for every inch of lip from the nose of the bait you get 7-8ft of depth.
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wildlife colors super hide white is what I use for the base coat. It sprays well thru a .5mm brush at 35psi.
