Thread: Making a new mold

love to see this this is outstanding and hope to see more of your work.

Snake ,thanks,I just love to try different things,even if another bait does good

are you hand carving that mold?

I dril part of it and handy grind the rest,but on BGSS style all yiu have to do is drill with a few different size bits.I just wanted to design a different bait for me to try

Nice job that tail will be killer!

are you using a regular hand drill and drill bits? I would be afraid I would ruin a piece of aluminum that way.

Originally Posted by genec

Not finished with mold but made a few bait to see how i like them. Made a thin tail, tested in glass of water it wiggled side to side when jigged slow up and down, be great jigging over fish in cold water, little movement and it wiggles great, better than round tail. they are ones on left side of picture the ones on right side are my old style with one BGSS on botton right side of picture

was wondering where you got your aluminum stock from also on the tail how did you put that into the aluminum did you pounded in order stampeded with the press?.

On my first mold, I found a little scrap piece of alumnin to see if I could do it. I made a stinger bait,clamp 2 pieces metal together and drill 3/4 inch deep with about 3/16 bit,then use 1/16 or smaller bit for skinnie tail drill 2 inch deep. On the 3/16 bit for head can use 1/4 but I like to redip head to make 2 color bait and smoother head also.Then I went to metal shop and bought a 2 x 1/2 or 3/4 thick strip of metal. For flat tail I used a Dremel grinder with a cutting blade and only grind a little metal off of one side of mold the shape I wanted. This mold was harder to do than BGSS style which is real easy as long as you keep pulling bit out of alumnin before bit clog up. I had a drill press which which help. When I redip head I would ease bait into water than do one right after another. I hope I explain it ok.