DrNip’s CrinKle Paint Theory

[DrNip]

Huge shout out to JUNGLEJIMJIGS for commenting on starting his crinkle jigs in a cold oven.

Years ago I used to start the baking process on my jigs in a cold oven. After so long of doing this I discovered certain colors would start to run at a cooler temp and started introducing my jigs into an oven preset at a 320 degree.

Well tonight I reverted bake to my cold oven starting days and voila it was like magic. The paint starts reacting at a cooler temp. You’re wanting the paint to run to get the tearing apart effect. You can see the excess paint run onto the hook shank. Thankfully I bought some jighead clamps do to this paint as I haven’t needed them for 7-8 years I’ve been painting. 200ish you can see it running and when it gets to a certain temp it stops running. My problem in the past had nothing to do with how I was adhering the paint to the head but how I was baking it. When I introduced head at 320 and it was way past the point to where it would run but instead start hardening to the head.

Now that I understand it’s the heating up process that causes the tears off to perfect it!

[SuperDave336]

Awesome. Glad JUNGLEJIMJIGS told everyone and you confirmed. I’m thinking it’s time I gave it another go myself when I can find time. Pretty jigs DrNip.

[DrNip]

I was at the point thinking it was the lead I was using and was about to go back to using pure lead. Never thought in a million years it’d been putting jigs in a cold oven to start up the baking process!

[Jamesdean]

Great to hear. I'm ordering some crinkle paint tonight. I wanted to a couple weeks ago but had to hold off. Can't wait for it to come in...

[Micanopy]

So..... the frustration has ended.

I am gonna experiment a little by reducing initial heat setting, then raising it to normal later to finish.

I cannot wait to see what you fashion up with them funky heads.

[DockShootinJack]

That is an awesome effect

[DrNip]

So..... the frustration has ended.

I am gonna experiment a little by reducing initial heat setting, then raising it to normal later to finish.

I cannot wait to see what you fashion up with them funky heads.

I was pretty much done with wasting my time on this paint until JUNGLEJIMJIGS suggestion of cool oven so down the rabbit hole I went again.

My next move to lower heat to around 200ish to see how it does. Might not need to though. I did three different runs last night. I allowed oven to cool completely and then put jig in there and set to 320. Each time it would start to run and tear around 200-220 and then stop. I don’t know if getting less paint on would better or not as I think you want it to run and too little won’t let it. Definitely going to need more experimenting to get it dialed in.

[JUNGLEJIMJIGS]

Simple yet amazing results using the cold oven technique. Pink heads look great. See what I mean that heads are almost to nice to put eyes on.

[skeetbum]

Great lookin jigs, glad you got it figured out. You’ll make some nice ties with those.

[SuperDave336]

Sorry the picture is a little dark but that’s robin egg blue with crinkle gold.



Decided to give this another try yesterday. I think they turned out ok. I will be messing with crinkle paint more for sure now.