Thread: Painting Jig Heads

Originally Posted by wardsmit

I personally love the powder painting and think its easier overall than any of the ways to color jigs. Its as close to instant color/use that you can get. I have used all the paints over the years and think it has risen to the top of most jig makers. I use polish in a few instances in a pinch and hard as nails comes in a variety of colors now. i do not bake always but it does make the paint pretty indestructible. One time I took a jig that had been baked and squeezed it to make an aspirin jig and the paint was still fine. I have dented them while shooting under docks and piers and the paint was still in tact.

well from everything that i am hearing I do think that i am going to give it a try with the powder paint and see how things turn out. I guess it should get easier after every jig that is dipped. Do these need to be hung right after dipping or does it dry pretty quick

I keep a rack next to where I am coating and hang each one...but it only takes a few seconds for it to dry and a few more for it to cool enough to handle. If you were to coat 3-6 and hang them, the first one would be more than ready to do whatever you wanted to do with it.

Originally Posted by wardsmit

I keep a rack next to where I am coating and hang each one...but it only takes a few seconds for it to dry and a few more for it to cool enough to handle. If you were to coat 3-6 and hang them, the first one would be more than ready to do whatever you wanted to do with it.

That sound simple enough:D

Powder paint is what I use and its easy to do. Heat lead and dip. Follow instructions on bottle.

Okay using Testors but a white base coat on let dry while doing second batch of jigs. When the first coat of batch one is dry put your color coat on. That has to dry for several hours while you work on batch 2 and 3.

With powder paint you heat, dip clear eye when this stage is done you put back in oven or whatever your head source is cook for 15 minutes let cool and your done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easy to figure out, but I still do some regular painting even with the powder

Fatman

Don't mean to be picky, but have you read any of the sticky post for new tiers? Or done a search to see if any of your questions have been answered before? I know all of them have been talked about in detail.

Check around a bit to see what you can find and after that if you still have questions fire away.

Here are a few links from a simple search for painting...
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...ting-jigs.html

http://www.tjstackle.com/ also has a video.

Make a simple search and you will find many post on painting.

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Originally Posted by Doc Crappie

How do you keep the jig eye open when you use the power paint for when you heat it in the oven to finish the process i have heard it is too hard for a jig eye buster to even break through it, haven't tried it yet so i dont know if it is true or not

Best way to keep the eyes clean is don't get any powder paint on em in the first place! Easily done by taking some hemostats and holding the jighead by the eye to dip into powder paint. the hemostats keep any paint from gettin on the eye. Hang em and bake em to cure. Faster than nail polish and more durable.

I have some of the vinyl jig head paint that bass/pro sells and it takes a base coat of white under the chartruse or hot pink an then a clear coat. so I switched to the powder paint it makes a beautiful finish and if you get it in the hook eye it is best to clean before you bake. it don't soften up if you leave a tube or grub on it but it will chip if you miss your target when shooting docks.