Paint question

[redear]

just remember, if ya get the jighead a hair too hot that'll get too much powder on there.

[cadman]

To all the guys in this forum first of all LedHed is correct with his post above. You cannot use thermosetting powders. Their re-melt temps are too high for small lead jigs, and you will melt the lead before you re-heat the paint. That leaves all the other powder paint companies and the powder like polyester etc. which Ledhed mentioned above. I have used most of the powder like Polyester, TGIC, epoxy etc. and I have found that they can all be applied over each other, are easily blended. If you bake powder paint, the finish is very durable. Also if you use different brands of powder like I do to blend colors you are going to ask what temp should I use since every color has a different temp setting. I personally think this temp range is way overrated. If you were powder painting items with strict specifications for the military than you have a valid point. These are fishing jigs, and no matter what you paint them with, you will probably lose them first before you have paint problems. With that said when I paint all my jigs I use 325° for 15-20 minutes. This is not cast in stone, like LedHed mentioned, this is a ball park number. If you feel you get good adhesion of paint at 300° for 30 minutes, whatever works for you. The more important thing to do would be to get a thermocouple and put it in your toaster oven and check what internal temp your toaster is heating at. I will bet you will find that the Pro-Tec heat temps listed here somewhere will be close…..Finally don’t dismiss the airbrush. There are blends and color combinations you can get with an airbrush, that you cannot achieve with powder paint. Let’s face it, if you paint bigger jigs like I do, you cannot put gill rakers or faded eyes with powder paint. I can do a 5- 6 color process not including glitters and clearcoat, and it can become very complicated. I know LedHed does as well (maybe others here too) and he can tell you it is not easy, but it is achievable. So this is where the air brush comes in. You must put a base coat over a raw jig to use air bush paint. Lots of guys use textured powder paint as a base, airbrush over the powder paint with Createx air brush paint and then clearcoat with epoxy. I’m going to stop this here as it gets too involved. One final comment Ledhed mentioned that I have powder paint I’m giving away. Yes I am in only (4) colors, it is textured. Powder paint is free shipping is not…………..PM me for more info……………I hope this helps you guys, and if you have any questions, I would be more than happy to answer them for you.

[Jubs]

Thanks for the answers Cadman. I might some day be doing jigs big enough to use the airbrush on but lately I haven't been getting any bigger than 1/32. I will definitely consider it later on as I am thinking about making some saltwater jigs eventually for halibut and other bottom fish.

Thank you everyone for answering my questions and then some.