mark poulson

I'm sure you would have to put a release agent, like spray PAM or Vaseline, on the surface of the first part before you poured the second over it. The easiest way to tell is to make a small test, using your Bondo and whatever you have to act as a release agent. From using Bondo in const., I know it will adhere to itself if the old surface is clean, but anything that's on the old surface, like old paint, has to be completely removed before you go over it with more Bondo.

I've never had one peel off, but I haven't tried to peel one with my fingernail. When one wrinkled, I hit it with the hair dryer, let it sit for an hour, and then redipped. I still fish that lure.

If you tie your skirts on with wire, you twist it to tighten it. Cut your wire long, twist up the extra 1", and then bend it back down the belly of the lure, to act as an additional bait holder.

Which mold model did you buy?

I am a hobby builder, and I would never use it for lures for sale. I still use it, but I'm careful to use thin coats when painting, and also careful where I lay my finished, coated lures so they don't contact plastisol baits. I do put a clear nail polish barrier coat on the end of my rat baits where the soft plastic worms attach, and that keep the AC1315 from getting messed up. I have found that using any paint with a solvent in it in my paint scheme, like Wicked Paints, makes wrinkling far more of a problem. A barrier coat over the finished paint scheme of Createx gloss clear helps. But there are some things to bear in mind if you are going to use it. Dip, don't brush. And don't use a lure turner, just let them hang and drip. Thick areas keep the solvent in play too long. Dipping and hanging my baits helps promote a thinner coat, and keeps the material from pooling in recesses and details. I dip quickly, and let my bait drip off outside, over the dipping jar. If it's a quick, thin coat, the solvent seems to flash off before it can wrinkle the paint beneath it. And I use a hair dryer to help the drying along, once it's stopped dripping, and I've blotted any bottom drip residue off. It is not a process that any commercial bait maker could afford to use, but it works for me.

Does that go for Glo paints and powders, too?

You can try using clear fingernail polish.

I have never made a resin bait, so I'm guessing here. I would think any bubbling would be from solvent trapped in the bait coming to the surface as a gas when it warms up. Have you tried putting them in an over at a low temp., say 170 degrees, overnight, to speed up the off gassing, before you prime them?

Welcome back. Kind of reminds me of the Burt Reynolds movie, where he says, "I've always had my $hit together. My problem is it's too heavy to carry." Use your knees to lift next time you try to get your $hit together.

Dave, I do ease the edges, so there are no square edges.

I have been able to achieve wobble on the fall in both spy baits and glide baits by drilling the holes for my lead wire ballast up from the belly to well above the center line of the bait, drawn from front hook hanger to center of tail. I figure out how much ballast I need to get both sections of the glide bait to fall at exactly the same rate, spread it so the two sections fall horizontal, and then push the lead wire up so approx. 1/3 of the ballast is above the centerline, I get the baits to wobble on the fall. I've found that having the ballast higher on any bait makes it more unstable, and 1/3 seems to be the magic number for me, allowing wobble but no overturning. I think that the flatter bottom of my baits creates more water resistance on the fall, and initiates a tipping motion as it sheds water, which the bait's ballast tries to overcome, so the bait wobbles side to side as the shed/stabilize/shed cycle is repeated on the fall.

His daughter posted a video of him today, moving his legs and feet pretty well and smiling. Here's what she posted: Dad is an amazing tolerant patient. He is at the University in Columbia. They are diagnosing as Post operative myelitis at this time. He is a puzzle to them for sure. They think he should turn around. May have some residual weakness and need therapy, but we are very hopeful for a full turnaround. So infectious disease is seeing him bc of the temperature spike... Just to make sure they aren't missing anything else. So will take some time, but we feel like it's pretty good news. Starting him back on the steroids and possible immunoglobulins. Still deciding for sure. He could lift his legs yesterday morning off the bed and just now moved himself to the side of the bed. Huge improvement from no movement in legs! Thank you for all the prayers keep them coming.Bettencourt Baits She smuggled him outside today, so he must be doing better.

His daughter posted a video of him today, moving his legs and feet pretty well and smiling. Here's what she posted: Dad is an amazing tolerant patient. He is at the University in Columbia. They are diagnosing as Post operative myelitis at this time. He is a puzzle to them for sure. They think he should turn around. May have some residual weakness and need therapy, but we are very hopeful for a full turnaround. So infectious disease is seeing him bc of the temperature spike... Just to make sure they aren't missing anything else. So will take some time, but we feel like it's pretty good news. Starting him back on the steroids and possible immunoglobulins. Still deciding for sure. He could lift his legs yesterday morning off the bed and just now moved himself to the side of the bed. Huge improvement from no movement in legs! Thank you for all the prayers keep them coming.Bettencourt Baits She smuggled him outside today, so he must be doing better.

His daughter posted a video of him today, moving his legs and feet pretty well and smiling. Here's what she posted: Dad is an amazing tolerant patient. He is at the University in Columbia. They are diagnosing as Post operative myelitis at this time. He is a puzzle to them for sure. They think he should turn around. May have some residual weakness and need therapy, but we are very hopeful for a full turnaround. So infectious disease is seeing him bc of the temperature spike... Just to make sure they aren't missing anything else. So will take some time, but we feel like it's pretty good news. Starting him back on the steroids and possible immunoglobulins. Still deciding for sure. He could lift his legs yesterday morning off the bed and just now moved himself to the side of the bed. Huge improvement from no movement in legs! Thank you for all the prayers keep them coming.Bettencourt Baits She smuggled him outside today, so he must be doing better.

His daughter posted a video of him today, moving his legs and feet pretty well and smiling. Here's what she posted: Dad is an amazing tolerant patient. He is at the University in Columbia. They are diagnosing as Post operative myelitis at this time. He is a puzzle to them for sure. They think he should turn around. May have some residual weakness and need therapy, but we are very hopeful for a full turnaround. So infectious disease is seeing him bc of the temperature spike... Just to make sure they aren't missing anything else. So will take some time, but we feel like it's pretty good news. Starting him back on the steroids and possible immunoglobulins. Still deciding for sure. He could lift his legs yesterday morning off the bed and just now moved himself to the side of the bed. Huge improvement from no movement in legs! Thank you for all the prayers keep them coming.Bettencourt Baits She smuggled him outside today, so he must be doing better.

I just saw on Facebook that Nate is in the hospital, with complications. I don't know anything else. If anyone else knows more, please share. And we all need to keep him in our hearts.

I just saw on Facebook that Nate is in the hospital, with complications. I don't know anything else. If anyone else knows more, please share. And we all need to keep him in our hearts.

I just saw on Facebook that Nate is in the hospital, with complications. I don't know anything else. If anyone else knows more, please share. And we all need to keep him in our hearts.

Will do. I am going to post this on the Hard Baits forum, too.

I just saw on Facebook that Nate is in the hospital, with complications. I don't know anything else. If anyone else knows more, please share. And we all need to keep him in our hearts.

I don't know if it will work or not, but I would recommend wearing shoes whenever you're working on anything.

I start with my molds, both pop and aluminum, at room temp., whatever that happens to be in my garage. The first pour heats them anyway, and I don't pour fast enough for it to be a problem.

Be sure your vents are clear before you inject the second color. Use steady pressure and hot plastic.

Pete, Does the concave face of the lip affect the amount of side to side Xing, the wiggle, of the lure?

Again, using a successful commercial lure as a starting point, so you can see how it sits in the water at rest, will help you a lot. The angle a lure rests at is a big factor in how quickly it dives, and how deep it dives to. I typically try to duplicate the angle of the Rapala DT baits when I'm making similar lures. I've also found that bending the first 1/4" of the lip back up a bit helps it grab the water and dive faster. Again, I use the DT series baits for examples. And i grind/sand the underside of the front edge of the lip to a thinner edge, and that helps it dive faster.