Supertuner Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) I've been lurking a short period. And I find this site very informative. Also, it seems pretty tight knit with some serious lure makers. So I felt the courtesy of an intro was in order before I started freely posting. I live in one of the most depraven places to fish in the country. The Motor Racing capitol of the world, Indianapolis. Lucky for me I have a great house directly on the White river. River of t WHich is one of the best small mouth rivers around. Even luckier my shoreline is considered one of the best places on the river. OR not so lucky since it sees a lot of pressure. Wed nights when the tourney a few miles down stream starts I run down and start fishing. lol Every one flocks right here, but if I have a line in they move on a little. I work in the racing business, of course why I'm in Indy, and have a few direct cross over skills. One is cnc skills. With my degree in engineering I've got a lot of experience with cad/ cam and the actual machining. Also, I've done a lot of carbon fiber fabrication. Which on the surface doesn't seem of much use, except it's made me pretty good at the science of epoxies and resins. Seemingly always a popular topic in hardbaits. lol So I've always fished and loved to tinker and build things, even models when bored. A good frind of mine has been tournament fishing for a few years. Recently, he said hey you use a cnc , wanna make some molds. I was like for what? lol It's been all down hill since then. I love fishing, I love making stuff and have a few skills that seem right up the alley. Boom, birth of an addict. So as one to not wait I went straight and quickly hand programed very simple molds to start learning. Then after reading here I had to try and make some pop molds. INcluded are some pics. Hopefully my intro thread isn't a problem with showing "some of my work". The large single "worm" mold was my first. It's sort of comically large and my first lesson learned. My particular machine doesn't use tool comp for the mold cycle. I named it the lady killer. The smaller single mold was more what I was trying to get. THen my next problem was I didn't actually achieve a true half round. THey turned out more like leeches. lol So then I needed a two piece mold of course. Worked really well except I didn't program a sprue hole and decided to drill it later. NOt knowing my first sprue was too small and drilled slightly off center, suck. THen when plastic wouldn't flow at home I hand drilled it larger. Just a practice mold. My pop molding has a long way to go. The first was the worm I made from hand rolled pieces of clay. Had issues with it filling fully with plastic. The other is a mold of a yum craw. No worries I just wanted to practice. Of course, it was my best mold so far and filled prefectly the first time. Of course my porosity is off the chart but I learn fast. Especially with the wealth of knowledge available here. I plan to very very quickly in the near future be easily capable of producing quality dsmr sd commercially avaiable AL molds, I hope better. Thanks for reading and look forward to learning this incredible craft. http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/supertuner1/P2070101-1.jpg http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/supertuner1/P2070102.jpg Edited February 8, 2011 by Supertuner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 A really good read. Thanks for the intro, and welcome to TU!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supertuner Posted February 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) Thank you als worms. Which reading back through I see some typos. But, this forum browser seems to have this annoying tendency to bounce around when trying to edit and it's such a large post I was going mad try to find the right spot with the cursor. lol Edited February 8, 2011 by Supertuner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Welcome nice to have you here. Looking forward to some of your new creations. Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blanx Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Welcome to TU the baits look good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basscandy92040 Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Welcome! Nice baits and mold work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longhorn Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Welcome to the machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Welcome to TU. You do realize that there is no cure for this. www.novalures.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo qwack Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 Welcome from Missouri, I dont post alot because these folks are way out of my legue lol but if you need know anything about making crappie baits then that I know lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
