Multi Tone Bucktails

Yup, heat gun is the only way to do it, got mine at Wal-mart for like 20 or 25 bucks, 2 heat settings. Low is all you need.

Have done heads down to 1/80 oz. with no trouble. But have seen times if you do a white base, then a darker color on top, then bake the head, the darker color will fade. So any more, i just do the base color, then bake, then reheat the head with the heat gun, and apply second color, darker color comes out fine, and i dont have to re-bake.

Painting heads like this, is as bad as jig tying, ITS ADDICTING !!

THANKS, cadman for the idea.

Yeah I just had a problem with a white undercoat with green chartreuse on top, it lightened the green up a lot. Would you bother baking it twice or just use the brush to put on the 2 different colors?

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Originally Posted by smoothlures

Yeah I just had a problem with a white undercoat with green chartreuse on top, it lightened the green up a lot. Would you bother baking it twice or just use the brush to put on the 2 different colors?

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DO IT RIGHT SMOOTH"GET YA A MILWAUKEE BRAND HEAT GUN STILL AT WAL MART W/1 THRU 10 SETTINGS"MOST APPLICATIONS YOU NEED TO USE SEVEN AND LOWER, OR IF YOU NEED TO HEAT QUICK 7 THRU 10... VERY VERSATILE BECAUSE YOU NEED TIME TO TIE THEM AS WELL RIGHT?THINK BOUT IT BUD"!?!?TAKE CARE GUY'S":)OH ALSO TRY EYE DROPPER FOR THE POWDER PAINT APPLICATION WHEN WORKING W/ THE GUNS INSTEAD OF BRUSH"I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY"BUT MAN" TRY IT ONCE SEE IF I AIN'T JUS A BULL LIPP'N YA"!:DMORE CONTROL

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Originally Posted by smoothlures

Yeah I just had a problem with a white undercoat with green chartreuse on top, it lightened the green up a lot. Would you bother baking it twice or just use the brush to put on the 2 different colors?

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The ones i did, i just did the base coat,light color, baked that, and came back with the heat gun, warmed the head, did the second color and called it good, WITHOUT BAKING A SECOND TIME.

I dont think a second bake is nessary because you have allready baked the first coat, and all you are realy doing is adding to the intial coat that was allready baked. That is the nice thing about using the heat gun, you can get that nice smooth second coat.

Not tryig to sound like a pro at this, but this method has worked for me.

BM
Would like to see some pics of your 1/80th multi colored jigs. how many colors are you adding to it?

Thanks for good advise guys! I've done two colors myself but the heat gun sounds like a better plan then using a lighter. I normally heat the jig, dip the entire jig into whatever base paint, then reheat a little bit and carefully dip into next color. I really don't have a pattern to my multi-color jig heads, I just dip the head into the second color at random angles and then bake the jig.

Al

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BM
Would like to see some pics of your 1/80th multi colored jigs. how many colors are you adding to it?

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So far i just do the base coat and then add the different color. Then just tie in the matching body, of craft hair or calf tail. Dont have any pics right now, but i will see what i can do, might be a couple of days.

Spring is here and it is time to go fishin.

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Originally Posted by LedHed

BM
Would like to see some pics of your 1/80th multi colored jigs. how many colors are you adding to it?

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I multi color some of my heads, I heat up jig dip in 1st color rejeat and sprinkle 2nd color over the jig. here are some 1/80 oz

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...shing059-1.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jiggin_Joe

I multi color some of my heads, I heat up jig dip in 1st color rejeat and sprinkle 2nd color over the jig. here are some 1/80 oz

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...shing059-1.jpg

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is this all done before you bake them on is the 2nd color added after the initial baking?

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Originally Posted by Doc Crappie

is this all done before you bake them on is the 2nd color added after the initial baking?

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i do both colors bake then do eyes.