cadman

I had a customer that told me the same thing. Clearcoat your jig with Devcon 2 Ton.

I originally got my swivels from Do-It molds. Never had an issue with them. Now if your package says Do-It Molds on it, call them up (Do-It Molds) and tell them the problem. They are very good at customer service and they will help you re-solve your problem.

This is an old thread, however I still use Devcon 2 Ton to this day. Loctite Gel has Ethyl Cyanoacrylate, and this stuff has to gas or flash off for awhile, before you can put it in a plastic bag. The fumes it gives off has a tendency to have adverse effects with plastic and many other materials. The white residue still appears, unless you have a small fan blowing on the jigs as the glue is drying. I do know that you have to let the Loctite dry thoroughly, as the jigs if put in water after 12 hours, have a tendency to have the weedguards soften. All in all I do not find Loctite as a good adhesive for weedguards. Just My Opinion. I will stick with an epoxy for weedguards. D2T for me

I was going to mention gold hooks, however I wasn't sure that they were aberdeen. It makes sense though. All the ice fishing jigs I've seen have gold plated hooks. Thanks for the info.

Jig Man, Can you post a pic of the cavity with the wires? Epoxy will melt in the cavity when you pour the lead. If you put a small bend anywhere in the three wires, and hold the wires in place with tape that will work until you pour the lead. Any bend in a wire will keep the wire from pulling out as long as your wire are not straight thru. Can you use one wire as the "T" part and put a kink in it and run it thru to the other side, leaving you with a wire for the leg of the "T". How about a small three way swivel? Just brainstorming as I don't know how much room you have.

Call Shawn Collins https://www.google.com/search?q=collins+molds&oq=collins+molds&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2.5207j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

All the aberdeen hooks I've bought in the past from EC and Mustad were bronze? What other type of aberdeen hooks out there, that are not bronze. Where do you buy them?

Jigman, those are really beautiful looking jigs. Very nice and consistent. What do you use those for crappie, walleye?

Very nice Robbor. I wish I had an x, y table for my drill press. I would be able to do so much more customization to my molds.

I would like to see some ice jig molds as well.

Although it would be less expensive to paint on eyes, I like stick on eyes. Since I sell my jigs, I don't think my painting skills would make my jigs look good. I like my jigs to look perfect and by applying stick on eyes, this works for me. However, for my own personal use, I don't use any eyes on my jigs. I never found that to be detrimental to my fish catching ability. Eyes on a jig to many fishermen is a big selling point.

You don't have to mod the mold at all, just make a longer leg, that comes out of the belly of the mold. You have a PM.

I pour the Do-It underspins which my wife uses with the standard clip and a willow blade. She uses a Berkley havoc as a trailer. She catches a lot of fish on it when the bass are chasing. So I don't know what the issues is. You can make your own wireform, with a longer leg and pour it that way.

Flashabou, is a plastic like material that comes in many colors. Type in flashabou in Google and you will find many suppliers.

Well this is very new to me. I will have to see if our 3d printer has this capability. Thank You for all the info.

Mark, I have also experienced when using Loc-tite gel on my jigs, that it has an adverse effect on my powder painted jigs. I recall putting my 3d eyes with loc-tite gel on my jig and the powder paint started to get soft. It seemed like the gel was softening the paint making it almost gooey. From that time on I haven't used it since for eyes. I'll have to re-visit this again sometime.

Thank You.

Well that is good to know. Thanks for the info.

I am assuming you "Got one myself recently as well) are referring to a 3d printer? If so I did not think you could print flexible material with those.

Thanks for the in-depth review

Well that is an ingenious idea. A bit pricey but beats making your own.

I have never heard of stencils done on a 3d printer. At work we use the 3d printer to build actual 3d parts so we can have a working prot-type. This proto-type is used for form, fit and function. We also have a "Cricuit" cutter, which we use to make profiles of car, head and various other types of gaskets. I think the "Cricuit cutter can easily be used to make stencils. You take or draw your image and the machine cuts the profile for you. Like Vodkaman said, you will need to obtain a cad package and then learn how to use it. Making the image is the easy part learning the cad software will be more of a challenge. Good Luck.

Are you referring to flashabou? BTW welcome to TU.

Have you checked Shorty's and Captain Hook?

I didn't think of that as I have the older one. Will normal Do-It molds fit under the new pot? Also if I am correct, is the new one digital? If so how do you like it, and how well does it pour?