Some of my jigs

[skiptomylu]

I do both vinyl and powder. Currently with powder I line up 25 jigs in the toaster oven, heat em to temp, dip in white, clear the eye, back into the oven, cover with 1-2 coats of the main color, clear the eye than cure em. After that I add the eyes and pupils and then spray them with a clear coat epoxy or UV coat.

I just seem to hear about guys being able to do more faster with a fluid bed.

I'm not saying anything I do is right or well wrong either, the amount of info I have learned from this forum is outstanding!



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Wow, your doing so much with them. I dip in powder paint, clear eyes and into oven and finished! Now if I want to add glitter I will dip in color, then clear with glitter and then oven. Only time I will use a clear coat finish in using Vinyl as it's not glossy with out the top clear coat. Eye I mostly only put on Roadrunners and that is just a dot of Black Vinyl after the powder paint is cured. Once eye is dry I tie it and done.

Seems your going through some things you don't really have to do?

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[Bigskyfisherman]

Thought that 300 hrs would amount to some over-curing, or a type. I also have sausage fingers. That's why my keyboard has larger and wider-spaced keys. It's called a "keys u see" board.

[thespiderman]

Never painted with vinyl. One thing I've found with the powder paint is that it is very easy to mix colors. I have a scale and can mix the colors with percise ratios and come up with colors that no one else has. You would be shocked at what the slightest variation of a color can make.

[Little_Otter]

Wow, your doing so much with them. I dip in powder paint, clear eyes and into oven and finished! Now if I want to add glitter I will dip in color, then clear with glitter and then oven. Only time I will use a clear coat finish in using Vinyl as it's not glossy with out the top clear coat. Eye I mostly only put on Roadrunners and that is just a dot of Black Vinyl after the powder paint is cured. Once eye is dry I tie it and done.

Seems your going through some things you don't really have to do?

Skip

I don't mind being tedious adding the eyes, whether it's paint or gel eyes but it's funny I refuse to put eyes on the salmon/steelhead/looper jigs I tie!

Loopers were the only reason I started tying, junk tackle for those fish so being able to put in a quality hook into lead was great. Then I found a china connection that will do 500 jigs at a time with tungsten instead of lead. Which has been a huge success for chasing schools of salmon and loopers.


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[skiptomylu]

I don't mind being tedious adding the eyes, whether it's paint or gel eyes but it's funny I refuse to put eyes on the salmon/steelhead/looper jigs I tie!

Loopers were the only reason I started tying, junk tackle for those fish so being able to put in a quality hook into lead was great. Then I found a china connection that will do 500 jigs at a time with tungsten instead of lead. Which has been a huge success for chasing schools of salmon and loopers.


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Man I don't even know what a looper is, lol! Have never been up North like that where I could fish, heck only time in NY was their airport headed to South Africa years ago. I would love to do some of that NW fishing at some point, but my body is about to the point I am not sure I will ever make it. You have an entirely different fisheries set up for you there and down here we don't even have Small Mouth Bass!

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[Little_Otter]

It's a strain of steelhead, we have "native" steelhead if you can call them that. Loopers are stocked by the department of natural resources. Real fun fish, 12 foot rods, 4 pound test and casting into Lake Superior. It's a blast!


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[skiptomylu]

Looks like fun to say the least and really nice looking fish!

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[Bigskyfisherman]

My son (Montanaboy) used to catch those fish, plus big browns and salmon, when he lived in Chicago. He didn't have a boat back then, so he went out on charters, trolling in the early mornings.

[Bigskyfisherman]

And that idea of mixing colors is something I never thought of. Thanks for a really nice tip.