Thread: Painting...Ain't As Easy As It Looks

Hands down, the easiest way to clean eyes is to not paint them in the first place. If they do get covered, heat a bodkin and it will melt whatever paint is on it when it’s pushed through the hole. Haven’t used the bodkin for years since I started doing my own and holding the jig by the eye when painting.

My technique is to heat the jig with an alcohol lamp, dip jig in powder, then while the paint is still soft, poke a sharp object through the jig eye. After hanging to cool but before baking, I clean any remaining paint with a jig eye cleaning tool which comes out fairly easy at this point. Very difficult to remove the paint after baking. I then bake the jigs at 325 degrees for 15 minutes. Super fast process and easy to do.