Thread: Hand dipped for outer core

So on this, you opened the mold and hand poured the bottom, then injected the top, then hand injected the pink while it was still hot? What happens to the plastic when you inject the pink?

Spoonminnow, yes I learned that, can't dip the tails in hot plastic, the tail curls up, when you hand dip, do you drop it in fast and out, or do you leave it for a second? Did you warmup the bait first? Or dip it cooled? Thanks for the response, I appreciate all the advise, thanks spoonminnow

This would be hard to do with my molds, but how do you do the top without it falling out when you put the mold together to shoot the middle

You guys doing core shots are used to use a laminate plate and leave With the bodies and Mold and then take a little bit of coloring and put it at the head in put sure mold back to gather in shoot it both sides will be clear this is what you called a core shot. when I'm doing, like a core shot but with two different colors on one cavity overlay and then I shoot clear and then I dip it in clear to lock everything in including the eyeballs I've enclosed a picture of the little syringe I use to do my fancy work it is plastic it's been holding up really well and you can buy it on eBay I know some you guys would be a little bit worried about use made of plastic with hot plastic inside so you have to be a little cautious but it will not explode on you I didn't like the metal syringes I've have one in mice to it in the garbage or I should say it's hanging in my shop but anyway here's a picture of the little syringe that I use. the mold in the picture is one of the very first ones that I bought about 14 years ago.I also added a picture of a core shot holding it in my fingers the bait in the method in the above that I told you how to do it. in the core shot picture I use that little syringe input through plastic in the belly side of the mold be real cautious on the following use a small toothpick intake coloring inputted by the intake of a little bit put the mold back to gather and shoot your clerk: to make a core shot it will take some practice to get onto this. don't know if you guys remember but I taught quite a few guys this method some of them are using this method to sell their plastics see
CTOM use this method for quite some time I was the very first to come up with this method course it might've been done this way many years ago but I had nobody to teach me most of my stuff is my trial and error over 15 years that I've been messing with the plastics so I'm passing on knowledge that it took me a long time to learning.

core shot picture.

Originally Posted by Gradygarrett

Spoonminnow, yes I learned that, can't dip the tails in hot plastic, the tail curls up, when you hand dip, do you drop it in fast and out, or do you leave it for a second? Did you warmup the bait first? Or dip it cooled? Thanks for the response, I appreciate all the advise, thanks spoonminnow

can't dip the tails in hot plastic, the tail curls up
I've never had that happen when I've used a pin or thin wire shoved into the front of the lure, dipped the lure tail first and then pulled pulled out fast, blowing to cool it down fast.

If the plastic is much more than 280 degrees (candy thermometer) and the lure left in a split second too long, the tail melts away; if pulled out at the right moment, the tail gets thinner and longer as long as the plastic is hot; thicker if the plastic is too cool with a tiny bubble at the tip.

dip it cooled (hot plastic melts the outer surface as it's dipped and both layers merge immediately.)

Practice makes perfect after just a few tries.

I did the needle-dip method to thicken this small stick and now it has the exact action of a Senko on the drop when used with a 1/32 oz jig:


I'm hoping crappie like 2" stick lures when I try them soon. (note: for the above example, the plastic dipped into was of the same softness as the original or the tip quiver won't happen. Both were soft plastic. For other lures, medium or soft plastic dips are fine.

This is what happens when the plastic being dipped into is too cool and of a medium soft grade:



These blobs didn't have much action and were melted down.

I would say use a harbor plastic or get a hardener to go into your plastic I usually don't have that problem dipping my plastic baits into a clear coat I have never had that happen. in most of time that we are using the medium plastic.
I have a question for you and I wish you would send me a PM on your reply which plastic are you using.

How do you send pm on here snake?