Tungsten resins?

[Soupysayso]

I've designed a couple baits of my own and I noticed that Lucky craft talks about tungsten resin incorporated into their gunfish 95 to get it to cast like a bullet and give the lure weight. I'm pretty new to the airbrush so I thought I would post this here. (A) is it possible to incorporate tungsten resins into the paint scheme. ( where do I find them, I've had no luck. Your expertise is appreciated

[redg8r]

I'm just takin a stab in the dark, but i think they might be using the resin inside the bait, or incorporated it into the body material. maybe a slight chance they could use it in an epoxy undercoat.

Ive seen a new tungsten "putty" available, they market it as a pinch-on sinker....supposedly you can take the putty & roll out a ball & form it right on your line like an instant sinker.

Tungsten is available in a fine powder, but I have no clue on how you would spray it. Im sure it would affect the color somewhat.

anybody gotta link to these handy?

[Soupysayso]

I'm working up to the plastic making part of my baits. Guess I wasn't considering tungsten resin as part of the plastic bait making process, but, while out of my league right now,I'm intrigued by that idea. I have spent a lot of time refining some of my wooden designs and hope to post a picture of a finished wooden design after I use it make master copies for plastic pouring (it took awhile to get one to do what I wanted in the swimming pool and don't want to mess it up now). The resin would prove valuable to some of my designs because there just isn't room for any more weight. However, I'm afraid incorportating the tungsten into the plastic may be more of a headache than it's worth because it might put me back to square one with weight placement, etc. I think I'll pour some standard plastic hardbaits before I mess around with the tungsten resins, if that is how they are doing it. If anybody plays with tungsten I'd be interested in reading about your experiences, both in plastics or as a replacement for lead.

[woodsac]

Some of the new Japanese baits are using Tungsten lips. That might give you the extra weight you're looking for?

[Soupysayso]

Definitely a good idea with the tungsten lips, but my designs do not have a lip, I'm operating on "old style" diving systems where a "channel" in the front edge of my bait gives it the action. Examples would be "bass oreno", and others. One of my designs, the most successful here in terms of catch rate, has the channel on the bottom giving it lift instead of dive. I've counter-weighted the bait to hold it down so that the bait retreives with a specific diving attitude. In other words, it comes back inches from the surface with a wide wandering wobble, nose up to the surface, rear end wiggling like crazy. For a visualization, think goldfish, carp, or shad, feeding on top with lips. Body is below the surface with extreme tail action. I'm playing off of the old cotton cordell blue stripers which I've drilled out and put in shot for unique actions. If you've read about or have seen the "flap slap" from megabass, a modified-out blue striper puts it to shame anyday, with the only problem being size. Bait was significantly smaller this past year because of all the rain in the East and the late winter. Therein lies the brainchild of this particular design. Additionally, I want to play with making tungsten as a sinker choice rather than lead if it's not too costly. Thought maybe it could be incorporated into plastic, shot in the dark I guess. I do appreciate the tungsten diving lip idea though, I never considered that, maybe next design. Thanks for your reply.