Playing With Shapes - Generic Tails

[aulrich]

So I have been playing with, the concept of a generic tail, I saw the concept on an alumilite youtube and ran with it.  At this point I am limited to hand pour molds mostly Durhams just to keep the cost of experimenting down.

 

The first is a topwater frog-ish /buzz bait sort of thing I guess it could be a small lobster jig tailer if I was to fix it the disks would be bigger , closer to the body , more on the side and maybe thicker. 

 

The second This was to fill a hole in what I could pour, I have swim baits that are not too big, but I wanted a basic grub like thing to throw onto 1/4-1/2 oz round head jigs for when walleye are on the todo list. One tail version not shown, is a leach cut. The concept I was playing with is it is fairly easy to pour a thin sheet in a larger size and cut to suite rather than trying to pour a curly tail grub. I was also thinking one mold multiple formats. I do anticipate getting into injecting and a grub is probably best injected, it's not really a cost effective shape for a homer to make. 

 

 

Last

This one though on the huge side illustrates the concept it is easy to pour a thin sheet the cut to suite vs pouring fin details, but this mold did give me some troubles, I made it too big the next version will be about 75% the size of this. The tail was too specific I had a triangular sheet witch limited me to normal fluke configuration. the next will have a disk. I also ended up with lots of bubbles in the plastic I guess even though there were two coats of sealer there must be some sort of imperfection.

 

 

 

 

 

[Kajan]

   You can make the fluke lure with that tail and pour it. I do it all the time using Presto pot with valve. Like ones that Bear sells at www.bearsbaits.com. I make mine out of RTV. WHat you do is, slide mold under the valve and you can control your pour and make many lures fast. No cutting, and if  you learn to pour, no trimming at all.