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It’s just white hi temp silicone for spincasting from a spin casting mfr. I bought a 12” round and just cut it up. There is a place on eBay that sells blue Nicem silicone that is easily avail. Place ships out of florida. They don’t se the company is waymil on eBay that carried the blue nicem. If u contact them they will list on eBay w free shipping I believe you should be fine using any real hi-temp spin casting silicone. A premium jewelry silicone should work also . Castaldo gelato should work good and what ever the white castaldo silicone is should also be good. These silicones will prob give you 1,000 good casts. Its no comparison to pop molds at all. These r professional silicone. You just put mica powder wher u want the mold to separate. I have even done runners/gates so small that when the jig is cast there is just a tiny lead wire left to cut or separate. But I do use a home made bottom pour pot and it injects like a dream

I remember seeing those on eBay years ago. Never bought one

Top and bottom jigs are mine. The larger one is 1/100 . For scale the white head is 1/500th oz. the small jig at the top is I want to say a size 20 hook

The bigger mold is offset with a 1/4 spacer FYI

These were just made with a drill press and an xy table and some time. And I just vulcanized the molds in the oven for an hour

here are some pics for you guys of some pics f my old mold frames for making jig molds and ice lure molds. I did these atleast 10 years ago. Also u can use jewelry molds and vulcanizers

I’d be interested in seeing the mold . I’ve made some really small molds. I even made one that was about 1/2”x1” x1/2 that was 2 piece. Silicone molds r easy and u can just use mold frames for jewelry. Most of the ones I made I did 10 years ago but there in storage.

No I wasn’t planning on shipping. its prob 27x27x40 and 200# unpackaged go_rob_go@yahoo.com

It is missin one crossbar for thicker molds like 4”. As seen in enlargement of clamp in back

Will do a lil more reading and thermometer n try again in a few weeks

I added stabilizer on first heat and prob a teaspoon full on 2 cups

I don’t know exactly. But after a few shots I was on the hot side and almost thought I was smelling a lil burning

I stirred the crap out of it I thought.i heated in steps while stirring in big batch as my injector is prob 16-18 oz and doesn’t quite fill all 6 cavities on my mold. I was thinking of trying some hardener

I shot some big worms in an aluminum mold for the first time a few months ago. Was using regular mf that had prob been sitting for a 6 months. I had an original shot by the mold maker who made my mold and used the same plastic. My worms came out no where as firm at all. Super stretchy. I used the microwave method and added stabilizer. Any ideas? I thought I stirred it up well also

Thanks for the reply AZF, that’s exactly what I’m doing. First run will be balsa rats lol. I did recently see a vid as you did and leave the square wood on. Thanks for the reply! I’m sure I’ll have more questions later as I go from step to step. Now I need a table saw, lol. I still have to figure out the bills, resin, and forms. I’m wanting to do one piece forms slitted into the body just in case the balsa body fails on a big fish.

What’s the norm / best was to segment a wood lure body preferably with a v cut? I just got my duplicator for my mini lathe and am anxious to start on lures.

Ya I was looking at McMaster for the wire