Thread: Messing around with feathers and rubber

looks great

need a grub mold where the cavities are close to the end with a small line leading outside the mold so that we can insert feather stem into the line up inside the cavity with the rest of the feather out of the mold so that we can shoot the plastic over the stem of the feather to bond it. I tried running the feathers up the jig body but they pull out very easy. How did you do yours

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

need a grub mold where the cavities are close to the end with a small line leading outside the mold so that we can insert feather stem into the line up inside the cavity with the rest of the feather out of the mold so that we can shoot the plastic over the stem of the feather to bond it. I tried running the feathers up the jig body but they pull out very easy. How did you do yours

we take a big needle and Paul the feathers through the body and cut off the in flush and then we put the jig head on and superglue the body to the head. That way you were super gluing the feathers to the head. that is a good ideal you had with the mold maybe you can talk to one of the mold makers about the I would truly love to see something made like that it would save you a lot of time.

Make a 2 sided pop mold using rtv first . Save yourself some cash that way you can tell if you want to invest in an injection mold. Also wet the feathers on the part that dosen't go into the plastic. makes it lay uniformly in a mold.

Try dipping the stem of the feather in hot plastic and then put it in the body. Wear gloves but it should work. It looks great. i've been wanting to do this style bait as well but just havent got'n to it

Originally Posted by pondhopper

Make a 2 sided pop mold using rtv first . Save yourself some cash that way you can tell if you want to invest in an injection mold. Also wet the feathers on the part that dosen't go into the plastic. makes it lay uniformly in a mold.

i tried this and do not get the results i want. i do not even mess with it anymore

Originally Posted by snake River

we take a big needle and Paul the feathers through the body and cut off the in flush and then we put the jig head on and superglue the body to the head. That way you were super gluing the feathers to the head. that is a good ideal you had with the mold maybe you can talk to one of the mold makers about the I would truly love to see something made like that it would save you a lot of time.

snake, I did it that way quite a while back but it was a little aggrevating and I do not like messing with the glue. Yours definately looks great and I will try mentioning it to the man about making a feather mold.

Originally Posted by pondhopper

Make a 2 sided pop mold using rtv first . Save yourself some cash that way you can tell if you want to invest in an injection mold. Also wet the feathers on the part that dosen't go into the plastic. makes it lay uniformly in a mold.

I understand what you're saying but we are not wasting any plastic on the method that we are using because I would have to put the little belly back in the melting pot. This is really very easy for me to make them because we are cut tails off the body anyway.