Painting Spoons

[Painter1]

I poured up some spoons and need to paint them.  To date I have only painted jig heads and these are much too long to dip in the powder vertically (at least with the size container and volume of material I have).

 

I am also wondering about baking them.  I could put the hooks on and hang them in my toaster oven.  Will that heat damage a bronze size 2 VMC treble hook or a sz 7 split ring?

 

Your thoughts and ideas are welcome.

[Kasilofchrisn]

I have fluid bed cups that are 12 inches tall. They work just fine you just need plenty of air to run them the smallest aquarium pumps probably don't move enough air. You should be able to make them any length you need. I use 2 inch cups so I don't need as much powder if I used 3 inch. 2 inch is plenty big enough for lead spoon type jigs.

I hang my taller jigs vertically in my toaster oven as they are over 10 inches long.

I bought some sinker slides with the rounded loop. I threw away the plastic slide and mounted them on the racks. Shorter jigs without hooks get hung on the sinker slides vertically and longer ones get hung on 2 of them horizontally.

If you need I'll take some pics tomorrow.

[defish]

How long are your spoons?  I also wondered about powder coating my first batch of spoons (up to 1 oz.)  and ended up dunking them in the 1 pound powder canister that the paint shipped in.  It worked fine, just fluff the powder after every spoon or two, and I dunked mine narrow end first.

 

Probably don't want to hang the spoons to cure with the split rings on - the powder will likely flow enough that the split rings will get stuck in it.  An "S" shaped piece of wire works good as a hanger.

 

Good luck.

 

Dan

[bass100]

Just buy a coupling that fits your 2" or 3" cups.  That will give you another 2" or so if it is not long enough just cut a piece of pvc pipe and stick on the top of the coupling.  You don't have to glue any of it together.  I use 3" cups and when I need more length I just put the coupling on.

[Painter1]

Good stuff, guys.  Many thanks

[mark poulson]

Just buy a coupling that fits your 2" or 3" cups.  That will give you another 2" or so if it is not long enough just cut a piece of pvc pipe and stick on the top of the coupling.  You don't have to glue any of it together.  I use 3" cups and when I need more length I just put the coupling on.

 

Thank you again for Solarez!      

[Painter1]

What about using a salt shaker to paint each side of the spoon a different color?  Does that work or build up too much material?

[Kasilofchrisn]

What about using a salt shaker to paint each side of the spoon a different color?  Does that work or build up too much material?

Won't work. Ben there done that.

I currently use the powder paint airbrush and it works good for this.

Set yourself up with a box to catch overspray rigged up with a hole and a shop vac hose hoooked to it to catch the overspray. It does use more paint than a fluid bed due to overspray but works well.

You could also try the brush tap method but I would think it would be a pain with spoon sized baits.

Check out TJ's tackle website and watch his tutorial on the powder paint airbrush for spoons.

[Painter1]

Thanks for that tip.  I ordered the TJ's powder airbrush but they are back-ordered.