JRammit
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Im not very good with clay, so I carve a wood dowel down with a Dremel for the bodies.. Mold the body in RTV.. Copy it in plastic.. Then add appendages using anything from crafting foam to coffee straws.. Put it all together and mold in plaster....... Getting prety good with the plaster, but want to move up to fiberglass some day
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Looks tasty!!!... I'd eat it -
I think Robo Worm is thinner than the worm in ur pics... I've yet to find a worm with more action than a Robo!... Only reason I stopped using them is cause I've gone exclusively home made (all original)
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It's probably different stuff.. But I've used air dry clay from Walmart for making masters... Soon as it gets wet, it goes back to clay
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I haven't done the paint thing, but I think I read u have to dip in clear to keep paint from washing off (or possibly even bleeding)... Would that fix his problem?
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Little more work... But laminates don't bleed
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Fruit of my labor! -
I use a copper tube... That can't b any safer than Cami's silicone injector... But... So far so good..... I don't think the guys are criticizing you Cami, they're just giving advice, leading a horse to water
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You heat plastic in a deep fryer?
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So theres metal that doesnt arc in a microwave?? Why don't they make forks out of that kinda metal???
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I had some old black worms with blue flake in them, I was nervous about nuking them, but they melted down fine.... Probably wasn't metal flake, idk if anyone even uses metal flake in plastic, most likely polyester, which is fine in the microwave
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Been workin on this for about a month!... Molded piece by piece (3 molds total), put it all together, and this is what I got! -
Don't get me started on big girls!
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Yea... I pour the mold around it, full it w plastic, use a tight fitting wood dowel as a plunger and shoot.... Spent maybe $5 at Lowes... Not as good as the real thing, but cheap!
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I'm still using a copper tube... Injector would b nice!... One of these days...
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YouTube... Lots of videos on how to get started with stuff you can find at Home Depot cheap!.... Except the plastic, I (and maybe most of us) started melting old baits.... Good for practice!... Mistakes are free!
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Has a dirty musky smell to it... I like it... But that menhaden oil smells exactly like the pure fish oil pills I used on my very 1st batch of crappie jigs... I like that one ALOT!
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What about taking baits hot out of the mold directly into scented oil?... I assume plastic, like anything else, has pores... Heat opens pores, so hot plastic should absorb better than cooled plastic... Right?..... Just got some crawfish oil and menhaden oil from Spike-It, not sure what I wanna so with it yet..??
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2 hands??... Now that's skill!!!... The gate thing is a good idea!... But I might have to try both hands just for kicks.... Thanks!
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Anybody got any tips on pouring colored tails in a 1 piece mold??... I'm pouring a new jerk bait with a skinny strait tail, they turn out great pouring a light color belly under a dark color back... But when I try to pour a different colored tail, I end up with high or low spots where the colors meet... Can't get them to overlap evenly.... Is there a trick to this??
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Brush on a few coats of Elmer's wood glue mixed 50/50 with water... It won't dry sitting in the cup, so don't worry about remixing between coats
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For experimental purposes.. Here's an alternative... Instead of baking sculpy clay, get a bucket of air dry clay for 5 bucks from Walmart... Air dry stuff is reusable, just get it wet and it's clay again.. Since plaster is wet, you just scrape the clay out with a q-tip once the mold hardens.... Only problem is, you only get one shot.. After that the master is mush
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Spike-It plastic is phalate free.. But I don't think they advertise it
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Maybe it's that "phalate" (or whatever it's called)... Some companies sell phlefate free plastic... The phileffe is supposed to b bad news for lungs!.. You should try some phewleffa free plastic
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First craw bait
