Thread: Painting Cranks

Originally Posted by G3 Fisherman

Scott....Just make you a wooden stand and Mount a alligator clip( like they use for wireig etc.) on the top of it sticking straight up.....then just clip the alligator clip to the front hook eye. Then you can paint away bill and all.

Good idea, that's why God created smart folks, to help us dummies out. LOL

Serious ?, why would you want the bill painted? To me it would make the lure look bigger, is that a good or bad idea? I would think the smaller profile would work better for crappie but really don't know.

Make several stands and you can do however many you want to paint at one time. I have a bunch of them out in the shop somewhere that I used when I used to make top water bass lures.

Originally Posted by SteveJ

Serious ?, why would you want the bill painted? To me it would make the lure look bigger, is that a good or bad idea? I would think the smaller profile would work better for crappie but really don't know.

Some, like Brads, come painted. I've been told that they like bigger profile.

That's a wicked looking frog, G.

Those cranks look good Scott!! I was thinking that you could use a pair of needle nose vice grips and you could still hold the bait in your hand and turn it however you need. Just an idea instead of making a stand.

I glued an aligator clip on a stick that I can hold the crank with. I'll play with painting a few bills and see how they turn out.

Good looking frog lure G3.

I used a Pausche two stage air brush on that paint job Scott