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Working on more colors, but not on web site and don't know if they will yet. Got to say messing with them eyes is a pain, LOL! However love the color this one ended up being. So tell me what you think about this.
Skip
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b4...s/DSC04337.jpg
looks good but them eyes are buggers i bet
Looking good I have done quite a bit of playing around with these heads and I enjoy working with them. Yeah the eyes can be a pain at first but after a few dozen they aren't too bad and you get a system down that works well. I like to pull them out of my curing clamp (a clamp to keep the heads facing up instead of hanging from a rack in the toaster oven) put the eyes in then put them back in the clamp then I put a coat of Hard As Nails over them and let it dry then pull them out and either store of tie them.
Looks really great!!!
... but why is it upside down?... did it go belly-up for some reason?;)
I am using Zap Gell and seem to get more than I need or want and about half of the ones I did so far I get the darn glue coming up around the eye and on my fingers and then of course then on the eye. I guess it will still look good in the water, but hate them looking less than clear. Just need a better way to control how much glue get in that spot and then it will be alright.
I will work out a system, but the good eyes cost a lot and then the time to put them in is getting out of hand. Using the 3D Holo Eyes. This one is Super Pearl, I think is the name.
Tried one of the Oval Pupil eyes, but the smallest is 3/16 which is a tad too big. Still got one to work, but one side looks good and the other looks not so hot with that glue film over it and that really makes me hot under the collar. The eyes end up costing more than the head even at wholesale.
Thanks guys,
Skip
Nah just took the pick like that, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by GCD
Skip
I really really like it, I am going to copycat it. Eyes were a pain for me for a while. Now after it is tyed, I swipe a little hard as nails in the sockets, pick the eye up on the corner of a razor blade and press it in the socket, then cover it with hard as nails.
Bet I could catch a big ol gar on that thing.:D
Great looking jig imo, I am envious.
I am using the Zap because I ask a fly tier that works at one of the large wholesale spots and ask what he uses and he said the Zap gel so that is what I am doing and nothing else needed if I ever can control it, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by rtark
I think your way is probably easier though for sure. However I don't want anything over this eye if I can help it.
Skip
I am also trying this head and do like rtark does with the hard as nails.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../spring004.jpg
[QUOTE=Len;1064186]I am also trying this head and do like rtark does with the hard as nails.
I like your jigs Len, Good Job!
I like the heads, but not sure they are practical for selling yet. Wait until I post that oval pupil one that is 3/16", LOL! One side looks alright and the other looks like well you know what.
Skip
[QUOTE=skiptomylu;1064200]Thanks Skip,Quote:
Originally Posted by Len
The eyes are really tuff to manipulate into the sockets. Have not fished with any yet but will try when lakes open up.
Well I have picked at these a good bit and not a single move at all. I dug at it with my finger nails and nada. I feel good about the Zap gel.
Skip
Nice jigs!!!!!!!!!!!
Skip once you get a routine going the eyes will turn out fine.
Fatman
Quote:
Originally Posted by Len
These look good.
The easiest way to put the eyes in for me is to use a bodkin. I tried tweezers first and they shot all over the place.
Tried the bodkin one day and been doing them that way ever since. Use the point to lift off of paper. Transfer off point into hole of jig. I then flip bodkin over and use butt of it to seat eye. Then follow up with coating of hard as nails or Loons hard as hull.
I put a drop of super glue in the eye socket, then with tweezers slide the eye
off the paper and place in the socket, with the other end of the tweezers push down on the eye to seat it. Cover with a coat of Hard as Nails and I'm
good to go. I really like the effect the 3D eye gives the lure.
[QUOTE=Len;1064186]I am also trying this head and do like rtark does with the hard as nails.
Len, those are kinda shaddy looking. I guess I better do one up and post it.
Hey Skip try a light coat of hard as nails over it...if you get too much and it makes it look flat instead of 3D, just brush it a little more and it'll soak back up the excess...sold hundreds of them like this for saltwater and never had a complaint yet. Also gives you a nice shine over the eye too.
Edit - Also to get them in the socket just put the piece of paper with the eyes up to the edge of the socket and slide it with your finger right into the hole and press...no need to lift it off the paper or touch it. ;)
Len - you nailed that tie! Awsome! Perfect color.....
Skip, that color combo is HOT on LOP right now.
Great looking jig!!!!!!!!
I think that them jigs are the coolest Len.Just for kicks,I would be painting up the inside of the mouth.So realistic looking.I like your choice of jigs Skip.I'm just partial to grey.