DrNip’s CrinKle Paint Theory

[DrNip]

Huge shout out to JUNGLEJIMJIGS for commenting on starting his crinkle jigs in a cold oven.

Years ago I used to start the baking process on my jigs in a cold oven. After so long of doing this I discovered certain colors would start to run at a cooler temp and started introducing my jigs into an oven preset at a 320 degree.

Well tonight I reverted bake to my cold oven starting days and voila it was like magic. The paint starts reacting at a cooler temp. You’re wanting the paint to run to get the tearing apart effect. You can see the excess paint run onto the hook shank. Thankfully I bought some jighead clamps do to this paint as I haven’t needed them for 7-8 years I’ve been painting. 200ish you can see it running and when it gets to a certain temp it stops running. My problem in the past had nothing to do with how I was adhering the paint to the head but how I was baking it. When I introduced head at 320 and it was way past the point to where it would run but instead start hardening to the head.

Now that I understand it’s the heating up process that causes the tears off to perfect it!