Kajan

When I was making me some lures, I always used some presto pots with a valve. Make sure you make you a stir system not to scorch your plastic. Works excellent bou'coup'

I am sure everyone will have differant opinions. What you are doing now is good, and will help you get all your designs down before moving on to what I think is extremely better, silicone. Once you have all the kinks out of your lures you designed, RTV silicone gives you some great one pc molds. These molds will give shiney lures as long as your masters are done slick. (non porous) 2 pc molds can be done with differant materials as well as RTV and come out nice. Make sure to make those fit 5/8" injectors they use now. RTV molds you make could be much much better quality than many you could buy.

You can make the fluke lure with that tail and pour it. I do it all the time using Presto pot with valve. Like ones that Bear sells at www.bearsbaits.com. I make mine out of RTV. WHat you do is, slide mold under the valve and you can control your pour and make many lures fast. No cutting, and if you learn to pour, no trimming at all.

I use mostly wood , mainly cypress, then coat with epoxy to make a hard smooth finish. Thin first coat, then full strength, but takes a few coats to get it near perfect. Bou'cou' light sanding, steel wooling, and polishing down. I use Devcon 2 ton. Don't ever use the 5 minute.

I think they had one some wheres. But presto pot is the way to go, definatly if your making one pc molds, makes it a pc of cake. Just make sure you put a metal bottom on your molds allowing it to slide under the nozzels easily. This might help: http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/topic/14203-pouring-station/?hl=kajan#entry106399

Well it can be done also using presto pots, If you have everything set up, you can dump your first colour in the mold from first pot, then slide it under second pot and dump your next colour

LLL is correct about dragging tail, but only if you use softer plastics, if your using say a Hard or med/hard you will be fine.

Very Simular to Big Ponchos lures. http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/index.php?/gallery/member/19897-big-pancho/ I agree tail needs to be smaller, but if you go smaller not necessarily shorter.

Yes and no, small batchs like that might look correct, but sometimes as you go larger batches it will show any measurments that were not exact. But if your recipe' was exact, it will be, meaning, if you have a large batch recipe' and you down size proportionately it will be correct. But remember if your makin a lure of a smaller size and it looks correct and you decide to make some much thicker lures, you need to adjust recipe to compensate for thickness of the bigger lure because it will look much darker, ect.

well mine are all in 2.5 or 5 gal containers. When they are full you use a stir paddle on a drill. If I use it regular and some is missing out the 5 gal container, I just shake it up.

I can only tell you what I have found using the hardness plastic I posted earlier. I allow my lures to hang or stand on a ss sheet for at least 2-3 weeks. At this point, if they are in air conditioned area, the smell is no longer present and if you bag them, they retain their shape. If you prematurely bag these lures, they will take the shape of the bag, bent or smashed or what ever.

Well only two I have used that I have found doesn't settle out are Bears Calhouns and MF plastic. But still you should mix with a drill and stirrer if your using 5 or 2.5 gal containers.

I use Bears plastic, and I use it in the hard formula. I also buy some softener and add a little bit with the hard when I mix in the pot. What I like about doing it that way is you can make the lures exactly how you like it. But don't forget, it takes about 2 weeks for the lures to cure 100% and give you exact action your referring too. I only fish for Specs and Reds, except for when I test my lures in the pond with some bass in it.

Well, dem saltwater fish, they gona damage them LOL Yea softer lures don't do so well with saltwater fish. You need to go at least a med hard combo.

I had never seen this wave bar before this thread. I can see an advantage to extend casting distance if the reels have the same technology in the spool and bearings as other high end reels. But I must say I am leery about how it will spool the line evenly on the spool in all conditions. Example, reel not perfectly level, high wind conditions as found on open coastal waters, ect ect.

You are much better with single cavity than multi cavity. But I never condone copying lures that are already made. You should design your own lure, hand carve, or make from clay like some do. Then make some or one rtv mold. Then if you want to use a soft lure for a master , which is not the best way to make a mold, but you could still do it cheap if you want to go that route.

. I talked with some one about that other day. Think it was in Gallery