Thread: 2010 New Year's Shad Swap

Keep my extra A fish.No worries.Still getting my colors together as the design is there.cant figure on 3 basic shad colors I'm gonna be happy with! lmao ill be a doozie bruiser"
fur/shore!

Originally Posted by AtticaFish

Len, I tried several ways to make the shape with no luck either. But here's what I ended up doing that looks "almost" right...... I tried to tie in all my tail material on the bottom of the jig, even leaving my cut ends all the way up to the head. This built up the belly of the jig and I just used a drop of flex glue after I added in each tail material. After the tail was done, I added 1 piece of doubled up ultra chenille to the belly to make it just a bit bigger, then wrapped the whole mess in chenille. I may have broken a record for "most different materials in a jig" with this one..... gotta see it to believe it.

I spend way too much time thinking about this! lol Maybe a touch of OCD!! :D I had some time while my machine was running at work, so tried to put the shape I wanted into a CAD program, but did it simple without rounding all the corners or to scale. The led behind the head would be flat sided so you could wrap chenille to the right shape.... Now I just need a mold craftsman.....

"Farm out A man"!we should talk!!!

Getting ready to PP (4 colors) swap jigs..



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Wow,looks like you are gonna have that shape down perfectly,Led.I'm sure the finished product will be another work of art. Coooollllll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

take it easy ledhed you making us look bad lol.
i have got all my little fat bodies done and in the plastic hope to get them nmailed out tomm if i get a chance .

thanks,
Scott

LH - THATS THE HEAD!!!! Man you stole my head design fast. lol :p Very nice. Did you pour those from a custom mold or get them from somewhere else, if so where and what are they called? What range of wt. sizes do they run? Those look awsome! The only thing I have seen close to them is on spinnerbait heads, but they still don't have the flat body like those...... Did I say those are cool? Oh yeah, 4 colors!!!

my jigs hit the post office this morning and should be on the way today attica hope everyone likes them kinda plain but i have never tied a shad shape before ande about drove my mind nuts thinkin of a style and it is the best i could come up with guess i will have to practice a little .

thanks,
Scott

JJJ thnx -finished the paint last night – gotta get some time for the tying….

Too funny SM – just trying to stay outside and on top of the box…. Took a little while to figure out which way to go.

AF - thnx
Using the Do-it Minnow Head JME-8-1632A, 1/16th, #4 red hook (from Hawnjigs), and a vise (with a cheater bar).

These were done with out the the body only being flattened. With the swap jigs the heads are slightly flattened.

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Racked up and ready to cure.

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Painted jigs for the swap.

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