Black uses to be the one I would get too much paint on when I first started, would even get some drips on the tin foil I started using to catch any of that and several others I could't consistently get a good coating. Eventually I quite having any that made drips or getting too much pint on the heads. I do have a counting system for each weight head and I don't go by seconds, just a count rhythm that is easy for me. Also I have learned to not just dip them, but to have some side to side movement when in the paint so I get a more equal paint coat on all sides.

I still love the alcohol burner and actually just got a new one from Barlow's again. The first one I have used for 6 years or so and the first time I used it I got the lid on too tight and had to get a wrench to remove it and messed the lid up as well as the little metal thing that the whack goes through so I have been fighting that for all this time and the new one makes me so much happier as I don't have any issues with it. I do have 2 heat guns actually and one I bought for another product, but tried them for a couple minutes of jig head painting and hated it. So that is my only experience with a heat gun. As far as heat temp and time even with glitter since the glitter I bought is from CSI and good to go with heat I still cure most at 392 to 395 and for 12 - 13 minutes. Since I have gone to the lower minutes I notice that I get a more equal color or shade on FL Red because I use to always get a few that got darker, but now all seem to come out right and bright.