3-D eyes

What's the trick with these eyes .glue them then clear coat over the eyes? I've ordered from a few different guys (mad crappie jigs & gates) which are works of art just trying to figure out the correct process.

Well none I have seen work without some superglue. It's hard to keep the eye clean and stick it in the right spot also. I don't do a lot of glue on eyes even though I have thousands, I use Loctite brush on superglue and I cut the brush down just a little. All I want is a tiny drop (really not a drop, but a bit) where the eye goes.

Now depending on the type of clear coat your wanting to use, some like Sally Henson's Hard as Nails will change the color of Chartreuse and FL Yellow so you don't want to use that over these two colors. Usually if I am going to clear coat I use Clear Vinyl. Actually if one is using clear vinyl as their clear coat I would think that would be enough to hold the eye in place ones it dries.

Like I said though, I don't do many glue on eyes so I feel sure someone on here knows better than I do!

Skip

When I was tying lures Skip I would use loctite but i would squirt a tiny dab on paper and then use a needle to put a tiny drop on the lure itself. I then would tweezers to place the eye on the lure. After that use clear hot plastisol and dip the lure in it using long pinchers.

A few years later I stopped that process and bought aluminum molds and drilled out eye sockets. Add a drop of hot black plastic into the eye socket and them just inject the lure. done deal,

I stopped doing eyes when I realized that the fish didn't care! I only did eyes for my customers on minnow heads and those were not 3d but prism which stuck better to jigs right out of the oven

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Both of those guys tie some good looking lures. Gates especially, but If you're tying for yourself, tie em how ya like em.
Fish care when they're hitting jigs with eyes.....
If they're not on there when they're hitting and you're catching.... BRILLIANT!
You get the point?

But then again, you can catch fish on a kernel of corn.. but who wants to look at thAt?

I put eyes on at the end of my tying process while still in vise.
Turn head to one side, drop eye in straight in eye socket , coAt over it, do same on other side. Then blend your coating in top n bottom. Move decently quick n no worries.


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A touch of super glue and a coat of clear finger nail polish, that's all you need.

Here's what was shared with me....take the powder coated heads before baking. Install eyes in desired place. Bake for 20 mins at 250 degrees. Had only one head eyes fail me after I started using this method. No more glue and I have tried to pull the baked eyes off can't do it... try it see if works for u!

We use 3Deyes. Slide on and clear coat 3Xs. Chub heads get additional coats after tying. We have been using fingernail polish. Be careful - some have UV inhibitor. You won't notice under regular light - under UV light, you notice, the color or effect (phosphorus glow diminishes). And it gets worse with age.

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We use blue & phosphorus eyes to add visibility, to the jig, in deeper water. I use these eyes with heavier jigs.
Right now - my quarry - are keying in on "snake eyes" - lighter jigs - in the shallows. Sometimes they don't want eyes.
With the lighter jigs we use regular colors.

I use to superglue but hated it. I now bake mine on for 20 minutes at 220 and then head gets a coat of UV seal coat. No eyes have popped off and no mess. Some eyes I have found don't want to stay on that well while baking and believe this is limited to the adhesive baking on the eyes. I also have one batch of silver eyes I bought that want to get discolored when leaving in the full 20 minutes. When using these eyes I reduce the bake time. Really liking the UV seal coat as it seals any gaps you might have between the eye and head as well as gives the head a nice shine. Also protects the paint from chipping.