Making the switch to powder paint?

[eriksat1]

I have been using Vinyl paint so far, but I guess powder paint makes that obsolete, besides the cost of the powder paint what else will I need to make the switch? and with powder paint does it eliminate the need to primer first? What would you guess the cost to switch to powder paint from scratch $$$ ? One more question, with powder paint can you still mix your own colors? Like making pink from white and red mixed?

[bassbull]

For the cost of getting into powder paint all depends on what you want to spend. Not trying to be a smart you no what. You would be wise to look up for old guestions on this subject and way all the differant ways to do it. Like in the heat source for heating the jig its self. Theirs 2 our 3 ways to do it. Myself I have done thousands of heads with a heat gun and it works great for me. As far as mixing colors to get a good pink you just want to buy some of the candy colors and they are dead on. Candy pink our any of the others in the colors you want. I have taken some of the chart. and mixed them to get a differant shade of chartr. but I don't think it realy helped me all that much. Right now I just finished a batch of swim jigs for bass and each jig has 6 diffeant powder paint colors put by just dusting them with the use of a small childs paint brush. They look and fish great. Feel free to pm me with any guestions. STEVE

[smoothlures]

All ya need is a couple 2 oz jars, a heat source (candle, alcohol burner, heat gun, ect), a pair of hemostats, and a toaster oven to cure the paint in.

[richstick]

Erik - when I send out your ice jig samples I'll throw in some powder paint too (I'll put it in a little baggie first!) I have some basic colors that are good to mess around with and you can see what's involved. I'll answer your other questions:

You don't need to primer - with bright colors some guys like to do a base of white powder, then the color over that. I've seen some colors that it makes a difference, others, no difference at all. As far as 'priming' though, no, no primer is needed.
The cost is literally the cost of the paint, and go on freecycle dot org and see if you can find someone with a toaster oven to give away - that's how I got mine :-) Some home made ingenuity for jig racks, a few hemostats and a heat gun and you are set. As far as mixing, powder doesn't mix like a liquid paint - you can shade and stuff, but not really mix. For example, if you take black and mix it with white in a 1:1 ratio, you will get what looks like a pixilated white/black combo - very cool color, but not exactly just a gray. It's a LOT of fun to mix and play with it. One of my favorites is a 'baby bass green' that is green, yellow, and black mixed. Great natural color.

[droptine]

You will definitely be glad you made the switch, no matter the cost.

[bugman]

One other suggestion (not just because i sell them on e-bay) is a fluid bed they make powder painting a bunch easier i could never go back to dipping after i got used to using a fluid bed and they make a much smoother finish as a bonus.