mark poulson
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Thank goodness there are people like you who post your ideas/thoughts, and understand them well enough to explain them so I can understand them.
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My buddy pours me Do-It Arkie jig heads, with Mustad hook. I asked him to pour them with the hole for the weedguard, because I like to fish them slow, through the hydrilla, and a weedguard helps. I don't think the fish know the difference when I make one with no weed guard and just leave the hole open. I do that when I burn them over the grass. They come with the eye closed, so I can either use them as jigs, or open the eye with awl and a hammer to insert the chatter blade.
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I don't know if it would work for resin, but when I make a POP two part mold, I use a palm sander on the second half, and it works to get the air bubble up off the meeting faces...mostly.
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Nice looking baits! Good luck.
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Clear nail polish works, and lets you add glitter.
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100/tsp and 300/tblsp is gold! Thank you.
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The spray glitter I used 15+ year ago didn't have UV protection, and yellowed badly under my epoxy topcoat.
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He's a magician!
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You can try hitting them with a hair dryer to help drive out any left over solvents after each dip has dried.
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This was my experience, too. It takes a while for all the solvent to off gas, because the hardener is wicked so far into the wood. Don't rush it, or your paint scheme will be ruined by bubbles when you heat dry your paint.
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When I spray rattle can sealers and primers, I always do it outside, even in the winter (unless it's raining). Those fumes are much worse than soft plastic. Funny how they reformulated paint to protect the Ozone layer in the atmosphere, but not to protect the people using it.
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Use two coats of Etex.
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I use one in the winter, when I can't paint or pour with the garage door open and a 20" box fan blowing past me out the door. Generally speaking, anything in bait making that you can smell isn't good for you. I keep one fan blowing across my workbench when I'm super gluing and painting, and another across my pouring station when I'm pouring soft plastics, and I stay "upwind" of the plastic. Fan speed is a function of how much I need to not smell anything.
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I tried it years ago. It works for one piece wooden baits, as long as you have a really strong, flexible top coat like Envirotex epoxy.
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Try mixing Glonation green/white glo powder into some clear nail polish, and then coating your white blades, as well as the heads on your spinnerbaits. The more powder you add, the stronger the glow.
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I think you'll get better results if you post this in the Wire Baits Forum.
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Nice bait!!! I really like how you made the plopping tail! Thanks for the fun video!
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If you use a paper template glued to the bill material as a pattern, try folding the template in half first, and using a ball point pen to make a center line on the fold. It will help you keep the bill aligned when you glue it into the bait.
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There are several aluminum mold makers on the Soft Baits forum. Try posting your question there. Here's a link to the mold maker sticky on that forum:
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Thanks Curt. I thought it was just me screwing something up on my computer. The activity tab shows for a split second, and then disappears.
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I would suggest you contact Etex directly. Their technical reps. are very knowledgeable and helpful.
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Thanks. I was sure I'd done something wrong.
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Did the site update it's software? I have a white band across the top where the forum choices used to be.
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I forgot to mention clear nail polish. I like touse Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails clear, but even the dollar store clear works.
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When I made jointed swimbaits, I used D2T on the inside faces of the joint, and brought it out 1/4" onto the sides of the pieces. Then I coated with E tex, two coats, turned 8 hours each. I let the epoxy cure a couple of days, and they swam fine. I did wind up softening the edges of the front part of each section, so there wasn't a sharp corner. I just rounded it slightly on my oscillating belt sander. I found that kept the joints from sticking on the cast, when the baits landed tail first.
