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Thanks Joe S. I'll give it a try I think I can manage that.

Sorry don't know how I got it up there twice went to edit to see if I could delete one. Another question while I'm here do I need to resize the pic's when I post and how do I do that. Can anyone help I'm computer handicaped.

Tacticalbass yes it's a one piece. The pics don't really show the detatil that well. I've made several different changes over a few years, I make my own molds from plaster of paris. I've been pouring it for myself and selling a few to some friends. I contacted Bob's about making a custom mold when I first came in here but he was too busy at that time. Since then I don't have the money to have it made. It does catch fish here's a pic of one caught on it. The swim jig chunk works too. I have one other feature I add to the trailers that is another of my ideas it elimantes the need for a tooth pick when nose hooking the trailer.

Ok I'm gonna try this. Her's a pic of some jig trailers I designed one is a swimming trailer the other is a craw. Tell me what you think. I still cna't get the colors to show real well I'm still working on that.

I'd try the Lure Craft super blue highlight, mixed with some pearl highlight.

Fishful thinking. Chartreuse will always bleed with any color. Just the nature of the color. Al's worms gave you the wright tip. Use Fluorescent Yellow, it makes a great Chartreuse for laminates. You can add a little signal green to the flourescent Yellow if you want it greener but it will be an experiment as you go kind of thing. Good luck.

Wow i didn't realize how far behind I was on this thread when I made that post. :-D THis thread is wright up the alley i wanted to persue. Tons of good information. Let the Palstic flow brothers. I'm headed to the store for a fryer.

Crawchuk Skip the peanut oil. Do a search on heat transfer oil. Much more stable and lasts a lot longer. I use to work as a service manager for a paving maintance supply company. We sold and serviced the melters that they use for sealing the cracks in highways and roads. Sort of a huge double boiler. You will need a temperature control and thermostat for the oil and the heat souce to regulate it. You'll also hae to figure expansion of the oil. Most major oil suppliers have their own brands of Heat Transfer Oil.

There are a lot of baits out that use the Highlight. Most are not brand names but producers of bulk type baits. Highlihgt is used in Red Shad. If you look close enough you'll see highlight in some Robo Worm veins. An earlier post made a good point of not using to much. I have some baits that I pour that have a very neat effect. 1/16 teaspoon of Blue Highlight 1/8 teaspoon of .15 Holijewel flake to a lure craft aluminum pan of plastic. It looks like a white shad color but when you hold it up to the light it has a Chartreuse tinge to it almost like a chartreuse core. Very effective color. I've seen others make a similar color I call it Holli Shad.

I work in a bait shop and there's not a 100% mark up. Not even close. Zoom, Berkley, Yamamoto, all have distributors. Very few companies can be bought from direct. We could buy direct from Manns. The only wayyour buying direct is if your a distributor. Belive me everyone protects their prices.

Gordon waht brand are your pots?

I was playing wtih some colorants and took some Lure Craft Natural worm colorant and watermelon from LureCraft and was experimenting on trying to come up with a green pumpkin. Looked good in the pan. Well when you pour you see brown but when it's cooled and you hold it up to the light. It's translucent and as you pass it across the light it goes from browm to Watermelon back to brown. IF the light is directly behind the worm you can see the Watermelon and tinges of brown on the sides of the worm. When the light is from the sides the worm looks brown. Pretty neat and purple glitter gives it another hue in the mix. Just some food for thought.

Of the injection molds I have seen it depends on the complexity of the design. Most molds have between 12 to as high as 60 cavities. 36 to 48 cavities are high side of count. All the molds have stringgers or runners that feed the cavities. When the mold opens the operator removes them by hand and lays them on a drying rack. The operator hits a button and the process is repeated. Cycles usually run about one minute and the molds are water cooled. Plastic is mixed in 55 gallon drums with a mixer turning to keep the glitter stirred. IT is then sucked uo into a heated hose delivery system that is heated to about 340 degrees. Pressure is not usually over 40 Lbs. Usually less. I had a complete tour of Eufalla Mfg. by the operations manager when I was there to pick up an order of Hula grubs. Look at molds running about $6000. Number of cavities and simplicity or complexity of design will influenace price. Also solid colors or firetails and to complexity. Molds with firetails have actuated gates for firing the colors.

Basscat I agree with you about the too green. That's why I'm asking. I'm just lookig for Ideas to doctor it up as I'd like to use up what I have without just making it to waste. Thanks.

That's what I'm looking for Ideas without wasting a lot of plastic. Sounds good but I'll have to wait for awhile before I can buy anymore colorant. I've been cheating it for a long time by remelting Green pumpkin and adding fresh platisol. Works pretty good but time to make my own. Saint, you read my mind. I have two other mixes of that, One is really good if you've got a dark watermelon or a remelted green pumpkin. Add just a little bit of .015 Chartreuse flake. I use .015 on the purple flake and add three dashes to a pan of plastic. I stuck a nice 18 incher today in that color with a shakey jig worm. It's so much fun to catch em on something you made. Thanks for the help.