I have made a LOT of powder paint mistakes, I have tried recoating with other colors etc.. and nothing worked good. But I trued “bama craw” color and it worked great! I have a pile of previous unusable jig heads that are all bama craw now!
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I have made a LOT of powder paint mistakes, I have tried recoating with other colors etc.. and nothing worked good. But I trued “bama craw” color and it worked great! I have a pile of previous unusable jig heads that are all bama craw now!
Sounds like a great color
All the many colors I have but that’s not one. Looking at them they’ve added several new ones since I purchased mine.
A lot of times you can clearcoat with nail polish to hide smears or eyes with glue by applying another coat
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Hooks and lead are cheap when you roll your own. Thankfully my favorite hooks are anyway. I gave a member here about 100 +/- heads that were either mistakes, blemishes, experiments, etc. He was happy to have them for brush pile season lol.
$0.037- Hooks
$0.015 Lead (based on an average jig weight of 0.12oz if you poured equal amounts of 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, and 1/4oz heads, and lead costing $2/pound (often free though)
at roughly a nickel in materials per head, it's not worth my time or labor to try and make chicken salad out of chicken dung
I might would reconsider if I were using a more expensive hook where hook costs alone were $0.15 a piece ( xx heavy mustad, priced per 1000 from Barlows)
I kinda go the other way. Although hooks in bulk may be cheap, and I use a lot of reclaimed lead, I’m of the “waste not, want not” mentality. I don’t like trashing perfectly good materials, but like flymoron, I want them to come out right. So I usually have a bucket of “mistakes” - whether it’s a bad pour job, or bad powder coat. When I have enough, and when I’m pouring one day, I will break out the little torch and just hold the jigs over the pot. Melt the lead, tap the hook on the rim of the lead pot a few times, and put it aside. I’ll skim the impurities (burnt powder paint mostly) and repour them all at the end of the melt session.
I’ve got a preference for throwing really light wire spinnerbaits (more vibration) for bass, but they get mangled really good on a decent size fish. Some hooks, beads, swivels, skirts, blades (and re-melted lead) have been on 3 or 4 spinnerbaits so far because I keep reusing the components. The only thing wasted is the mangled wire.
All the best,
Glenn
I've done that a few times, but since I quit saltwater fishing, my lead consumption has drastically dwindled, and I've got way more than I'll likely ever use in my lifetime. I have a pile in a bowl that have obvious defects that I'll reclaim the lead from once the bowl gets full, but once I figure out a new mold's nuances, I usually dont get many. Of the one's that escape the initial QC scan, I'll find when painting, and those usually get tossed aside for experiments and such.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cajuntec
Funny you mentioned waste not want not. As loose as I may be with lead, I watch some tying videos where guys waste so much marabou but pulling all the fluff of a quill in the same direction, and then cut to length. I cringe because on MOST quills, I'll strip and stack the fluff off the rachis, then cut to length, so as not to waste it lol