Thread: Powder Coat Suppliers

Originally Posted by wicklundrh

One thing you will notice is that each company might have a slightly different hue or tint to it. Some use the same companies to buy in bulk (most commonly the pro-tec name). Companies even vary slightly from year to year.
At any rate, I purchase mass quantities from Jann's Netcraft.

You got that right. Colors vary from batch to batch and picking a color on the internet is almost impossible for me.
I know all about color, I was in the printing industry for decades. Then paint/powder coat in heavy metal fabrication. Now I audit labs that analyze paint/powder before its used on final products.
How well do you see color?
Simple on-line test... Good luck!
Color Test - Online Color Challenge | X-Rite
I scored a 4. 0 is perfect.

I don't put any stock in the color name. Wish they would publish the CIE Color specs so I could make an educated decision.
CIE Primary Colors and Matching Functions

This one might be easier to understand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space

Well that was easy...

I hate to tell you this, but expect shades of colors to change from batch to batch on a heck of a lot more items than just paint, LOL! Try you hackle or marabou or anything else that they dye! Nothing stays the same shade if it's altered by the place selling it or the place before them!

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Originally Posted by Kevin22

The surface area of a 1oz jig is roughly 12 times that of a 1/16 jig. So you are using 12 times more powder than a "crappie guy" would. So instead of 4oz you would go through 1/3 of an ounce a day. So your system is really not applicable to a crappie jig painter. I have the same 4oz jar of yellow chart from protec that I bought two years ago and I have painted thousands and thousands of 1/64 and 1/32 jigs with it. My pounds of other colors? Those will last for a long time. I dump them into 4oz containers and I don't think I have refilled them yet in 2 years. The white needs refiled from doing base coats on candy jigs and painting white jigs, but that's about it. I don't even want to guess how many jigs I have painted in the last couple years, not sure I can count that high with my Iowa education. I'm not mass producing jigs for sale, but I do paint a lot of jigs in a season!

I do production crappie jigs as well. I just happen to sell 1000 more times the bigger jigs due to the conditions the boys are fishing, the locations they are fishing, and so on. Not uncommon to lose as many as 3 to 4 jigs in a single pass on the river some days.

Ive used tj's then moved onto Columbia coatings, currently using prismatic powders, and also for some off stuff all powder costs.
Not a problem with any of them.