Powder Painting Horse Head Jigs

I recently started casting Horse head jigs with a Do-It mold. Today I attempted to power paint them and ran into an issue with the swivel after the curing. I used a hemostat on the hook eye to hold the jig while diping into the powder, but after I cured the first batch the swivel was painted completely solid!!!!! When I attempted to free the swivel it simply broke off the jig.

For those that cast and PP Horse head jigs - can you share with me your method for power painting.

Thanks

TomD
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Wrap a tiny piece of aluminum foil around the swivel while you watch TV, then paint and bake.

I grab them with needle nosed pliers by the swivel. As soon as the jighead comes out of the paint, I run a hook that I straightened and cut the barb and point off through the eye to clean the paint out. Sometimes you'll still get a little paint in the swivel, but not much. Once it's cooled you can nearly always twist it and break it loose. If you plan on baking the heads, be sure to twist and clean the swivel before they go in the oven.

I use small diameter heat shrink tubing to cover the swivel. Simply place the tubing over the swivel, the tubing shrinks when you heat your jig. I usually cut the tubing off with a hobby knife before curing the paint. Smoothlures also has a good idea with the Aluminum foil - I may have to try this method sometime.

If you don't mind a little "overspray" - you might try brushes..

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Always use tin foil on my swivels. If you do a search on powder painting pony and or horsehead jigs you'll find a really big thread on it.

After heating the head cool the swivel and hook eye with water and the paint wont stick to them it is very simple no wrapping of foil or shrink tubing. This works great !!!! I've done thousands of them this way.

Guys - thanks for the fast responses and good suggestions. For those that use the water technique, do you find that the water on the swivel creates "chunks" in the Powder paint? I do everything possible to keep my powder dry and now I am sticking something that is wet directly into the powder.

Thanks again

TomD

never had a problem with that using a fluid bed for the powder. just a quick dip in the water and a shake then dip into the powder.

Thanks for the tips on the foil and water i'll try them both been using tape and it sucks.