walleyeman10

I have ordered alot of hooks from them and always very fast shipping.

Ok so I dont see the difference but whats the difference between the Mustad 32796BLN and the Mustad 32796NPBN. captainhookswarehouse.com has the 32796NPBN for $102.43

I agree with cadman its to cold. I have to get the lead hotter with some jig molds to get the collar to form good. On the erie jig I always crank it up to 10 and get the mold good and hot before starting to pour. On others on pour on 7 with no problems.

since I made my fluid bed I have not had the problem must have just been to much paint

Its still orginized because its still fairly new just moved to the basement the first of the year. Started this fall in the garage but after it got to cold i cleaned out the utility room and moved down there. Im sure in a year it will look nothing like it does now.

Thats the utility room in the basement. Years ago when we redid the kitchen i moved the old counter top and cabinets in it for a workshop for me. Finally cleaned it out and used it for something other than storage.

anyone have any suggestions

Ok i just started making some muskie bucktails and courious where is the best place to buy all the materials to make them. I have been buying from Janns Netcraft but have read that some of you have better sources for some of your material both price and quality. Currently I am using Flashabou Holographic for the skirting is that what everyone else uses or is there something better. Thanks for all you help.

Well I made my fluid bed this afternoon. I used hot glue to glue the base to the plexiglass and also the filter to the cup and it worked well. Just got done painting some jigs and it is alot faster and alot easier with better results. Thanks for the plans and the advise you were a great help.

I have not base coated any of my jigs. Is it necessary and why?

Well I have experimented and I think I was getting the jig to hot and to much paint. So why the difference between paints always heat the same but now with the yellow chartreuse I will just not heat as long. Fluid bed is next on the list hopefully this weekend I will have time to get everything picked up and make one. Thanks for the quick replies.

I have been pouring and painting jigs for a couple months now. I have learned alot from this site but now I need help. I have not changed anything other than just open a new bottle of powder paint. I have not made my fluid bed that Cadman sent me instructions for (thanks) so i still dip and tap in the powder. Today I painted about 150 jigs about half of them I left single color and put in the toaster oven to bake. I bake at 350 deg for 15 minutes just like a thousand before but this time the 50 jigs that were chartreuse all had drips hanging when I took them out. None of the other colors ran just chartreuse. So I wonder if I got some bad powder paint. I got it from Janns Netcraft just like I have bought and used alot of other colors. But the crazy part is the chartreuse jigs that I multi colored (paint brush tap) did not run or drip. I dipped some more and put them in the toaster over this time turned down the heat to 300 and after 10 minutes same thing drips. So am I right it must be bad paint? But why multi colors not running.

Looking for 571 short shank hooks in 1/0 & 1 do you have any?