Powder coating jigs

[Slabo]

Here are the steps I use when I powder coat my jigs.

1. Grab jig by the eye with hemostats and hold over alcohol burner to heat jig
2. Dip jig in powder paint in a fluidized cup.
3. Remove jig from hemostats and dip in cold water to cool the paint
4. Hang jigs in toaster oven for 30 min at 300 degrees
5. Put them in box ready to tie some hair on:D

[ThrillSeeker]

Wow. Those are some real good looking jig heads. I like the toaster oven idea!

[BleuGhill]

A+ for this 'Powder-Paint-Along'. Excellent photography.

[robbor]

Great tutorial.
What hooks are you using, they look BN?
Do you use white as a base for any of your colors?

[smoothlures]

Nice post.
Robbor, I don't know what hooks they are, but you only need 1 coat of the color you want. No white base is needed.
However there are some new powder paint colors that are transparent, you dip it in 1 color then dip it in the transparent color.

[Slabo]

Great tutorial.
What hooks are you using, they look BN?
Do you use white as a base for any of your colors?

Robbor,
Those are Mustad #1 black nickle hooks and I also have some poured up with a Matzuo black nickle and red chrome. I don't use any base colors on my heads they are just dipped once.

Thanks guys

[bentpole]

Nice looking jigs, I painted some to day also,But what is the fluidized cup& how do you use it? I just heat the head & dip into the powder??

[Slabo]

Bentpole,
The fluidized cup is the same thing as a fluidized bed, it is a container made for powder coating. You have a cup that you pour your powder into and there is a air pump that pumps air into the bottom of the cup and keeps your powder from clumping up or getting packed in the cup. When the air is adjusted right it looks like boiling water. It give you a very even coating on your jigs and you don't use as much powder. I picked mine up from a guy on EBAY his website is www.Tjstackle.com The fluid cup was around $50 with two cups. You can buy extra cups for different color powder or you can just clean them out when you change colors. I hope this helps

[guest01]

there all all kinds of stuff you can do with powder coating, there are things you can add to get a vein look then go over it with a candy or you can add some special glitters to the colors for a little something extra but they show up best on darker colors

[backtocrappie]

Good post! I've been wanting to see a pictorial on that process.