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Can automotive poly be brushed or dipped with good results too?

NP...If you get a chance post results. I am sure others here will like.

That would work but why not use silicone tubing as it is readily available? Check size you will need but it is available by ID from 1mm, 2mm, 3mm etc. I would recommend getting a size slightly smaller than the swivel . The tubing will stretch like a rubber band and be tight. Add a common binder clip to the end of tube. This will seal the tube end and act as a handle to hold the jig while applying PP. Remove clip when baking.

I have to agree with Kasilofchrisn, custom baked PP jigs = Quality. Baking PP is what the manufacturer requires for the best end product. Another way I have found to eliminate cone heads. Use a modified paper clip to hang jigs on rack by hook eye and attach a 1/4" nut from hook point for weight. This keeps jig head pointed up so any drips will be at the tail where they don't matter. Modified Paperclip: Shape/ cut like an S.

So true...so true. This game is just like what they always say when you place your bet at Poker. "Go Big or Stay Home"

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Are you looking for printed bags or printed header cards?

Great suggestion 31xdc as the 3 in 1 clevis is custom made for MF Lures. I doubt they will sell just the clevis. If stacking doesn't track well. You could also use a nickel plated double + single clevis that you would sliver soldered together @ 2 places. Note: Nickel plated material with flux will accept silver solder well.

Dale cover blades with two small plastic bags. Flatten bags to remove air, then take some monofilament and tie them tightly around the rods ends. Transfer sealer into a small dia container if you don't have much sealer. (Soda can, shampoo bottle etc.) Dip lure for about 1/2 hour. Then brush excess back into the container while leaving some sealer on the outside. Hang vertically till inside and outside are dried. Remove bags... done.

Interesting Woodchopper Facts Dale you probably know most of this but I thought I would post it for those that didn't. On August 2010 Rapala announced they were discontinuing production of one of the most famous lures ever made, the Woodchopper & its extended family of top water lures. Originally designed as a muskie lure by Ozark Mountain lures the line was purchased by Luhr Jensen in 1991 and quickly became the holy grail of Peacock Bass fishing. If you went Peacock Bass fishing anywhere in South America where the mighty Peacock Bass lived and didn’t have at least a couple of Woodchoppers, Amazon Rippers or Peacock Bass Specials in your tackle box, you were looked upon as a complete novice! Doc Lawson was casting a Peacock Bass Special when he caught the 27 lb All Tackle World Record Peacock Bass in 1994 and Bill Gassmann was casting a Big Game Woodchopper slim when he broke Doc’s long standing record with a 28 lb monster fishing with Captain Peacock Expeditions in February of 2010! The list of variations on this prop driven Peacock Bass fishing legend are many, the Woodchopper, the Big Game Woodchopper, the Big Game Woodchopper slim, the Ripper, the Amazon Ripper & the Peacock Bass special. The melodious sound of the big props on huge wooden top water lures will forever stick in a Peacock Bass fisherman’s mind, “Rippp, Rippp, Rippp,” punctuated by the vicious sound of what seemed like a crazed Peacock Bass smashing the lure. These huge lures up to 7 inches long and weighing over 2 ounces can be cast into the next area code, leaving only a few winds of 85 lb test braided Kevlar line left on your bait casting reel. These lures were so valued by the Peacock Bass fishing guides that they would climb a tree or swim into Piranha infested waters to retrieve them when you made an errant cast and got hung up. When the present stock of these lures is exhausted, they will be only a memory. Phil Jensen now 73, the owner of Luhr Jensen of Hood River, Oregon until he sold the company to Rapala in 2006, told me that his company grossed around 15 million dollars a year of which only about $300,000 was derived from his famous Peacock Bass fishing family of lures. Phil said that the publicity generated from the Woodchopper name and fame as well as his love for Peacock Bass fishing more than justified keeping these lures in production when he owned the company. It seems that Rapala, after continuing to produce the lures for 5 years, decided that the “niche market” of Peacock Bass fishing that had made the Woodchopper family of lures famous was not worth the bottom line. And this was only about 5 months after the new All Tackle World Record Peacock Bass was caught on a Woodchopper!Well, as with the rest of life’s tragedies, we must learn to move on as everything in this world must die…..no matter how famous or if deserved or not. What do we use when the existing stock of Woodchoppers, Rippers and Peacock Bass specials are gone? Around 2000 Terry Jertberg of Florida and High Roller lures came up with a woodchopper clone called a Rip Roller.I have used this top water lure for 10 years now and it is a good product. Not quite as long, more streamlined and lighter than a Woodchopper, it makes almost the same sound, and all who have fished a Woodchopper know it’s the tuning of the prop to produce a particular sound and cadence to the retrieve that makes the difference in catching and not catching Peacocks. One of the newer entries to Peacock Bass fishing is Caribe Lures “Pavon Prop,” again another Woodchopper knockoff with square ends instead of the tapered ends of Rip Roller. Both of these will come in several different sizes and color patterns and both are effective replacements for the venerable Woodchopper. Where the Woodchopper, Rip Roller and Pavon Prop are brash and noisy in their approach to attracting the mighty Peacock, Heddon’s 4 inch Super Spook mesmerizes Peacocks into hitting with a rattle and the old “walking the dog” action.

I would just dip the whole thing in a thinned sealer and let set for about 1/2 hour. This should coat/protect the inside real good. Then brush off excess back into the container. Lastly wipe outside down real good with paper towels till all sealer is removed. Hang horizontally to keep any drainage away from blades.

You can only have it shipped for free to your Walmart then picked up there.

I use Disposible Graduated Plastic Measuring Cups. 1oz cups: Acidrod $2.99/100 +ship (also sell rod wrapping stuff, some are good for lure making) Amazon $3.07 /100 ea 2oz cups: Acidrod $3.99/100 +ship 16 oz : Tap Plastics @ $.55 ea + ship. Note: I am not affliated with these businesse's. Hope this helps

DuPont Non-Stick Dry-Film Lubricant with Teflon Fluoropolymer. Amazon and Walmart sells it. Effective from -100F to +500F. Note: This is something I haven't done but plan to try. It could work on hook eyes as well. Process: Remove flash from lead. Note: Apply Dry-Film Teflon outdoors and let dry. Spray some in a cup and dip or apply to swivel with a cue-tip. Be careful to not get any on lead as nothing sticks to it . Either lay flat or hang by eye with paper-clip to dry. After Teflon Dry-Film has dried you are ready to Powder Coat. No need to remove Teflon Dry-Film. Swivels should be free of PC and spin better than ever!

My guess is a hand pour of two or more layers. Internals could be with colors painted on. Difficult to say the least.

Excellent description, my problem solved. Thank you my friend.

DoubleT, correct me if I am wrong. Their are two points to consider when designing a lever type bender. It is necessary to consider the wire size and the diameter of the pivot pin or pin nearest the end of the bar. That pin diameter determines how tight the finished radius will be.

DoubleT I have been bending wire for flutter jigs. Basically a U a straight and a U. The jig I made just uses pins but I can't get as tight a bend as I would like. A lever arm like yours would help me with tighter bends, not to mention less fatigue on the hands. Thanks for sharing the pic this helps.

DoubleT does your jig have a series of pins that you wrap the wire around? Also do you use any levers?