Lingerdog

It's funny, when I started experimenting with some baits I was making, I would get funny looks, and I'd say "if I ever start selling lures, I'll make more money off a lure that looks like it'll work, than one that works every time bit looks ugly."

Sounds like form-a-gasket to me.

I have designed my lizard, I call it the swamp monster, I hope there isn't something out there already called that, but it probably is. But anyway, I am going to cut it into the plaster tonight, if I'm not out fishing, then I'm going to make some lead pours of my lizard. I plan to place the lead lizards in a blank pan, and fill it with silicone to hopefully come away with a silicone mold. But at least my mold came in from LC yesterday and I can at least be pouring some flukes and frogs and single tail lizards, and senkos. And thanks for all the tips, I may try to just pour some more plaster to get me a zellemander mold.

We took a piece of plaster that had already set up I had laying around, just carved a little back and forth for the body and made a head on one end, just poured in the plastic and it looked pretty good in my test pan. My brother took the three we made to test them out and see what kind of mods we need to make. In the test pan, a little jerk would straighten the lure out and then it would resume its shape, looked pretty darn good. I'm wondering about pouring softer formula in the curves of the snake to make it's action really come to life.

It may just be new to me, I've been trying to make some plaster molds, and I can't get it mixed up to pour over baits without it setting up on me, and when I mix it in a pan and try to push my worms I'm duplicating into it, well I either end up too deep with finger impressions in my mold or so shallow that I lose leg detail on lizards. So, since I have access to a cad system and a stencil cutter, I am going to scan a lizard into it, then make some modifications, cause that's what I wanted to get into pouring for in the first place. Then I'm going to cut it on a stencil and put the stencil on a block of hardened plaster. Then I'm going to use a dremel tool to cut out my design. Has anyone tried anything like this before? And what do you guys use as a release agent for getting the lures out of the molds?