Jarrid Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 Is there a good way to keep powdercoat paint out of the eye on the brush jig? I tried heat shrink tubing like I do on other jigs but it didnt stay on at all. Looking to see what ideas some others may have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jig Man Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 (edited) I hold the eye of my jigs with needle nosed pliers or hemostats. When any paint gets in I run a spinnerbait wire through it then bake. I only heat the jig enough to get a dull light coating of paint on it so when paint gets in the eye there isn’t much. Edited August 3, 2022 by Jig Man 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadman Posted August 3, 2022 Report Share Posted August 3, 2022 I dip the jig in the paint and run a drill bit through the eyelet. It cleans it out super fast. Check drill size on a raw jig, and then go slightly smaller, so the drill bit doesn't get stuck in the eyelet once paint is applied. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Epp Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Oh that terrible moment when I take a batch of jigs out of the oven and realize, "shoot! I forgot to clear the eyes!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadman Posted August 14, 2022 Report Share Posted August 14, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 11:49 AM, Big Epp said: Oh that terrible moment when I take a batch of jigs out of the oven and realize, "shoot! I forgot to clear the eyes!" Yep, learned that a long time ago when I started to paint jigs and I painted and baked 100 jigs. After I took them out they looked so beautiful, then I realized I didn't clear the eyelets. So I thought no big deal, I'll just poke them through with a jig eye buster. Wrong, that didn't work because the paint was so hard. Had to work at it for a long time and that job was a money loser for me. Way too many hours to clean out the eyes. Never forgot again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkin Posted August 15, 2022 Report Share Posted August 15, 2022 Use Christmas ornament wire hangers and hang the jigs by the eye. Allen 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Catignani Posted August 19, 2022 Report Share Posted August 19, 2022 On 8/14/2022 at 7:29 PM, Munkin said: Use Christmas ornament wire hangers and hang the jigs by the eye. Allen I'm thinking, "Why didn't I think of this?". Hanging (by the eye) also get the paint "flowing" away from the eye vs. just hanging it by the hook. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
