Jig head paint?

[aape23]

I am just starting to paint my own jig heads, but I have a few questions for the "Masters". I really enjoy this forum for helping me and my friends. I have been painting with vinyl paint but like others have said the smell is awful. I bought some red powder paint and the first jig I did was wonderful. But the rest are really bad. I am using a disposable lighter on low setting to heat the jigs. But I am getting pitting and the powder not holding on to the jigs.
Any help would be great.

Thanks
Aaron

[willsjwills]

I am just starting to paint my own jig heads, but I have a few questions for the "Masters". I really enjoy this forum for helping me and my friends. I have been painting with vinyl paint but like others have said the smell is awful. I bought some red powder paint and the first jig I did was wonderful. But the rest are really bad. I am using a disposable lighter on low setting to heat the jigs. But I am getting pitting and the powder not holding on to the jigs.
Any help would be great.

Thanks
Aaron

You might make yourself a rack that'll fit in your oven to hang the heads on and bake them. Baking them makes the finish "flow" and will do away with the pitting, which is probably caused by the head being too hot when it's dipped in the powder. Baking the finish will also make it tougher. No paint will adhere to the lead without using an etching primer first. The best you can do is to make the powder coating as tough as possible and hope for the best. It will still peel off the lead, but when baked it comes off with slower.