Les Young

Looks good Bassman17$. i like those.

Just take your time & slowly buy what molds that will make the lures you'll use constantly. For me it was a basstsackle brush hog style mold, next two delmart shz molds (super hogs), several aluminium & artificial stone molds for several different types of jig trailer molds, worm molds & a couple fluke style molds from enforcer, & a tube mold & a hula grub mold from angling ai. Now i have about 30 molds & still not done. If you take some time it won't get to overwhelming & it will become a very addictive, but enjoyable hobby. Then there's the catching all of your fish on stuff that you made yourself.

microwave, pyrex cups, gloves, digital thermometer, plastisol, colorant & glitter & molds for your absolute favorite baits will definitely get you going pretty good. Medium plastisol would be the best bet to start with until you learn & know what you like. It's also hard to beat bait plastics brands for price on plastisol.

Mike, a lot of guys say they're top notch.

I remember that this is exactly what was happening to Ferns tubes so it's definitely not a new thing.

Outstanding work right there.

Good idea. I believe i'll pick one up & make it fit too.

Lureworks or baitplastics is what i like since Leonard at baitjunkys doesn't sale calhouns anymore. I'm using medium in the baitplastics right now& it's pretty good stuff. They also have a medium hard if you want a little firmer finished product. I really like lureworks being in the bag in the box & it's very good plastisol too.

Yep me too & usually do it every time i go into the garage.

Very Nice OIR.

And the man knows his stuff along with several more on here that are always willing to help. .

Ok thanks.

Man those look nice. Do you have any pics of what you done to make it a little easier to grasp?

I've had it to turn brown or rootbeer as you said when over cooking it until the point i scorched it, but never had any turn into jello when i did it.

I have a dual 6ouncer basstackle & it's top notch. Basstackle, do-it molds, jacobs mold & machine & quality injector all make them & i'm sure they're more just all oi can think of off the top of my big melon head right now.

From what i've saw they're all different because each company makes them with having both injectors in their specific bracket in mind which inturn is the same as the distance of the injection ports on that companys blending block.

Bass Boys, Josh contacted me & we've got it lined out. As usual great customer service from spikeit.

Can you post a good pic of it?

Bass-Boys, thanks. I'll give it a try. I know it;s the only colorant that i've had do this & it's getting on my nerves.

Does anybody on here use this colorant? I ordered a pint bottle to make a color of worm i use to use & i cannot for the life of me get it mixed up right. I've scraped the sides & bottom of bottle & shook it for an unbelievable amount of time & it still has hardpack & just seems it doesn't get mixed right no matter what i do. I'm wondering if it may possibly be a bad batch? Any suggestions? Thanks

I have hand dipped oiled sections of pin flags cut to the length needed & inserted them into molds then after shooting pulled the pin flags & have a redneck core shot.

I've used lureworks, calhouns & baitplastics. I'm using baitplastics right now, but i'd say lureworks medium in the box is my favorite all the way around. Baitplastics medium is a little soft for me on some baits so i add some hard to it & it does great. I just realized a 2014 thread was revived.

I tried the silicone molds, but never liked the baits from them because they didn't seem to get as firm as those from aluminum to me. This could have all been in my mind however. I got rid of mine, but if i buy any more they'll more then likely be the composite ones. I have some of the artificial stone molds & the finish isn't as bright & shiny as the aluminum molds, but they make very good lures. You can tweak your recipe & make them look pretty much identical. I make a lot of jig trailers out of them & make colors like zooms ruby red, sapphire blue, green pumpkin & rootbeer pepper green & they look just as good & pretty much identical to them. The do-it essential series molds are also a very good affordable option. The lures won't be as shiny as a cnc machined mold, but every bit as good a lure.

There is all kinds of molds for them & if that's what you use most then for sure buy them first. I throw brush hogs & super hogs a lot so my first mold was the bastackle 4.5 bt flipping hog( brush hog. My next two were Delmart 4"shz molds( super hog) then it escalated from there. Now i have a bunch of different ones & several different jig trailer molds too. Main thing is to not go to crazy or you'll spend some major bucks way quicker than you want to.