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We are the inventor and manufacturer of the Easy Hub Skirt (branded in the USA as the Perfect Skirt and EZ Skirt), as well as the Easy Band skirt, CapWrap skirt, Holo-Sil skirting material, and Swirl/Living Image skirting material (which has recently been knocked off by our competition). Over the years I have had many request for a do-it-yourself Easy Hub skirt assembly kit. As a result, we will be introducing this kit within the next few months. The kit will include male & female silicone hubs, pre-cut 5 strand tabs in a variety of colors & prints, an assembly plate, and clamping jigs for compression vulcanizing the skirt hub. They are actually very easy to make, just labor intensive. Contact Charles at Skirts Unlimited for more information on this new product as well as our new easier than ever bench mounted skirt assembly tool, our new silicone tube skirt, and our new natural rubber skirt tabs that can be assembled the same way as a silicone tab. Our goal is to make lure skirting EASY for you.

The Perfect Skirt (Strike King) and EZ Skirt (Z-Man/ChatterBait) are privately branded versions of the patent pending Easy Hub skirt design created by GLC Fishing. The hub is made of silicone and consists of male and female components. Silicone skirt strands (typically 70 strands) are hand positioned around the circumference of the male piece, liquid silicone is applied, and the female piece is compression vulcanized to the male piece, thus permanently securing the strands in position and creating an easy on/easy off lure skirt with a "perfect' umbrella and precise color placement. GLC Fishing is working now on a do-it-yourself kit for making Easy Hub skirts, and should have it out this summer. They distribute their products in the US through Z-Man Fishing Products (www.zmanfishing.com) and Skirts Unlimited (www.fishingskirts.com). You can visit their website at www.GLCFishing.com for more information on the Easy Hub skirt and all of their skirting products and lure components.

Try Charles Hymes at Skirts Unlimited. He has over 5,000 skirt tab colors & patterns and can custom match anything you would need for larger volume orders. I'm sure he would sell skirt tabs to you by the pound on a per color/pattern basis, as long as the quantities were large enough.

Clemmy, I would be glad to send you a few of our uncut silicone sheets to play around with. Send your mailing and contact info to the email address on our website. May take a couple of weeks though, because we're out of country right now.

You can also buy them direct from Z-Man (zmanfishing.com) in a 3 pack for under $3, or for $.30 each if purchased in lots of 25.

Strike King's Perfect Skirt was designed and patented (patent pending) by GLC Fishing (GLCFishing.com). It is sold to Strike King through Z-Man. Z-Man has trademarked it as the EZ Skirt, but Strike King chose to call it the Perfect Skirt giving people the illusion that it was their skirt design. The EZ Skirt has several unique and innovative features. Because the strands are positioned vertically around a silicone hub, it has a perfect umbrella and different color strands can be positioned precisely were you want them, e.g., you can make a skirt with black back, holographic scale sides and red belly to perfectly match a jig head with same coloration. Also, the EZ Skirt is just what the name insinuates. Unlike the traditional banded skirt, it is easy to put on and easy to take off. So the fisherman can change lure coloration in a matter of seconds. No more displaced strands and monkeying around with streching a rubber band over a jig hub. GLC Fishing also has 2 other easy on, easy off skirting products, the EZ Band skirt and the CapWrap skirt. You can purchase these skirts through Z-Man. Both Z-Man and Strike King sell EZ Skirt replacement skirt packs.

Steve, check out GLCFishing.com Specialize in offshore silicone skirting. Contact Skirts Unlimited, (cfhymes at gmail.com) for heavy silicone skirt and tab sales.

Try Skirts Unlimited, cfhymes at gmail.com. Charles can get a variety of glow skirts and tabs made by GLC Fishing. Same skirts used by Boone and C&H Lures for their offshore King Teasers

Darrin, contact Charles Hymes, Skirts Unlimited at cfhymes at gmail.com. he's in Richmond, VA He's just getting started in the business so his selection is limited, but his pricing is the lowest around. Ands with a little lead time, he can get you any color/pattern imaginable.

Please allow me to clarify the skirt manufacturing situation. Essentially, there are only 3 "turn-key" silicone skirt manufacturers in the world. Z-Man, GLC Fishing, and Skirts Plus. The Chinese make some skirts, but I think all will agree that they are crap, plus the Chinese don't have the capabilty for silk screening and printing. GLC Fishing and Skirts Plus both have factories in Saigon, Vietnam. They both compound/pigment raw Dow Corning, Wacker, or GE silicone using a roller mill, then run it through an extruder into small ribbons and then compression mold the ribbons (using a 200 ton press with heated mold set) into sheets. These sheets are then silkscreened, printed, or chrome foiled, if desired and die cut into tabs that are assembed into skirts. If you go on GLCFishing.com under the Gallery section, you can find photos of the entire manufacturing process. GLC is run by two American design engineers, and has developed 4 innovative patent pending skirt designs, the EZ Skirt (which Strike King uses as their Perfect Skirt with Magic Tails, also used exclusively on the original ChatterBait), EZ Band Skirt, CapWrap Skirt, and the SilaFlash silicone holograhing process. Z-Man is the only true "Made in America" manufacturer. They compound/pigment their silicone and process it into silicone rolls via a collander which is less labor intensive. They then us an automated slitter to cut the rolled material into strands. They even have automated skirt banding machines. Thus they can afford to manufacture in America through automation. All 3 of these suppliers are virtually equal in quality and coloration versitility, However I believe that GLC Fishing has the lowest cost production. They sell millions of sheets, tabs, and skirts to the US market primarily through Z-Man, with some tabs and cut skirts sold through Skirts Unlimited (Charles Hymes, cfhymes at gmail.com). Z-Man and Skirts Unlimited can then in-turn sell at or below Skirt Plus pricing. There is one other type of silicone skirting material made in America with an automated process, the round strand material. However, this material can not be silkscreened, printed, or chromed, and it does not have as good of a pulsating action on the lure due to the different hydrodynamics. Kinda like water skiing on a round ski versus a flat ski.