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Hey guys,
Last few year I have fished plain jig heads. I tie my own jigs and bucktails, also fish plastics. I am want to try doing some powder painting and want to get some colors to try my hand at.
I'm not wanting to spend a chunk on powder paint so I want to narrow my selection down a bit. I'm going to get chartreuse and maybe black? What else?
I like to just get 3 or maybe 4 colors at most for now. Thanks.
I also tie for River walleye and smallmouth.
I would say Flame Red would be a great one and I use it a lot. It leans to the Orange side of Red so can work as either sometimes, but of course Orange is way more to the Orange side. I also use a lot of Silver or Chrome color! There are so many!
one thing you will need at some point unless you want to fluff in container after every 2 or 3 heads. You never want to stick a hot head into a container of powder paint when not fluffed! So at some point you just have to have a fluid bed and personally I do not like the home made ones and have tried 3 of them. TJ's is best lace I know of to get them and the cups. He also has a lot of custome colors some use, I do not as I have so many colors that I bought by the pound!
as an after thought FL Yellow is also a good color!
I have herd that. For the amounts I will do, I just fluf it up myself.
I had planned on using the oven. To heat and then bake again, 350 deg I was told. . Or borrow a buddies heat gun. Actually I'm probably going to have my wife do allot of the painting. She enjoys doing that kind of stuff.
Okay however all the is personal choice. I hate the heat gun first off don't care for the noise or learning how to get it right for that. I use an alcohol banner for my heat and all I did was get use to how many counts I hold what size in the flame. It's clean so no suit or any thing like that as it burns clean. I use a old toaster oven that I put a temp gauge inside so I could find out were to set it for my temp. I use over 390 degrees and if cold oven when I stick them in I add 2 minutes to warm to my temp. I use 15 minutes at 390 to 400 degrees. I have spoke to CSI (Pro-Tec Paint) many time about this and have had 3 different temps and times from them over the last 10 years as they added paint and changed the temp and time. A few of them you have to really pay attention to like Pearl White, it's a much lower temp and need to be aware of that. I have posted their temp and time in the sticky post at the top of this page ( I just added link below so you can see it directly). Not sure I remember which one, but it's there for sure. I know some have like a 350 or so as a option, but more than 15 minutes for sure! Don't use a lighter or candle because you need clean burning flame!Quote:
Originally Posted by Smoltz
Always check the sticky threads at the top, we have a load of good info there!
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...re-temps-time/
Thank you very much. Great info!
To get me started. Do you have idea off top of your head the time for 1/32, 1/16, 1/8oz on the alcohol burner?
Your welcome!
Yes I do, but it's as I count and not necessarily actually seconds. You will need to play with it a little for your count that is comfortable for you. Now for a 1/32 I usually count 2 - 3 on each side and dip/swish from side to side fast! 1/16 I use 3-4 count on each side and 1/8 or 1/4 I turn it from side to side and total is 10 to 12 count total. I do count faster than seconds I think, never tried to check that part.
If in flame too long you will get too much paint and it will look like a bullet head because it will droop when in oven. If not enough paint it will look kind of cruddy and not smooth. It's not hard, just touchy a little as far as the amount of paint on the head and it's not what I would call critical because you have a good range that will look fine and not look too much or too little!
I go through the most of green chartreuse, white, hot pink, black, and then I would get a natural brown/olive for your walleye jigs.
I started out with Pink, Black and White, But have since added about another half dozen colors...still not ready to quit!
Powder painting is just as addictive as tying!!!!!!!!!!LOL All have given you good colors
Smooth did you ever find a good green chartreuse at Rosy's powder???