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just wrap the swivel and blade in alum. foil and paint as normal in powder paint. works great just painted some roadrunners last week that way and it was much easier than brushing.
Now that is a good idea and probably wish I had heard that before I bought $100+ of vinyl paint, LOL! Not to mention the darn air brush I also bought. Heck I am over $200 into this darn vinyl thing and not painted a Roadrunner yet. I am still waiting on Blakemore to deliver my 1/32 and 1/16 heads. I guess if I sell all 1000 the paint will pay for it self, LOL!

I am not sure with the bake cure on the powder it is not just as fast using the vinyl, but I am going to try both. One thing I do like about the vinyl is how tough it is. I think it stays on better than powder paint that has been cured proper. I have so much powder I can't stop using it either and will stay with that for my jigs for sure. I have 7 colors in pound containers and about 6 in 1/4 pound containers, not to mention the others I have the small 2 oz. jars in too. I am paint poor!

People always say how cheap it is to do this and I suppose it can be if you really limit what you buy material wise, but I have a ton of money in materials.
A lot of it though is fly tying stuff, but I also can make most any thing out of so many different materials that I can always come up with new looking jigs with new colors and flashy stuff.

Lately I have been experimenting more and more with dubbed bodies and I like them a lot because they look more buggy and I feel the fish like that.

Thanks again,
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