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Here's a seven color tube bait made using a Do-It mold with a spline that makes the filaments without the need to cut them. The mold makes a super nice tube without a lot of messing around. Well, if you make a simple tube that is.

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The spline that makes the filaments has 18 grooves that fill. I did three grooves of six different color and then shot the tube body in the blue. Old eyes and fat fingers made for an interesting 35-40 minutes. Doing this in daylight would be a super benefit. Challenging is the best way to describe this puppy.

I have a grand-daughter that thinks this plastic stuff is pretty good stuff. I shot a "frog" family using a 4" frog, a three inch frog [Mama, as I found out its called], and three 1 1/2" baby sized frogs. She mad a house out of an ice cream pail for them. Hard telling what this thing will become. I have some 4" lizards this time around too so she'll be a busy kid on Christmas Eve. lol

What size tube bait is it. good job it looks like a lot of work I do have a 4 inch in that precut in the mold.

3.5" Bob

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3.5" Bob

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I wish do- it would come out with a 2.5 precut in the mold 10 cavity. is that mold you have a single cavity?.

Yep. Even you wouldn't want to see the cost of a ten cavity even at 2.5". The spline portion of this mold is a 40 dollar bill and the mold body is another 50. Just the splines would be a 400.00 ticket on a ten cavity.

You just have to play don't ya!!!!!!!LOL Nice looking bait, be fun to see what the fish think.

You need to call that one lifesavers.... Got as many colors as a roll of lifesavers.

I like that bait too!! :ThumbsUp Very nice work.

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Yep. Even you wouldn't want to see the cost of a ten cavity even at 2.5". The spline portion of this mold is a 40 dollar bill and the mold body is another 50. Just the splines would be a 400.00 ticket on a ten cavity.

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ctom You don't have to have the fancy cams made with the grooves for the tail you need to cut the grooves directly into the mold and place a street rod this way you will have a precut plastic bait in the mold I am no fancy at drawing up something like this I do not have the skills but if I did I would absolutely design and send it to a mold maker to have it made I know it will work . and why the mold makers are not doing this I haven't got a clue they take the most expensive way to do things sometimes.
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Time in the machine Bob. Lots of passes to get that. Man, a ten cavity would be a chunk of change.

The filaments would be heavier in that design too Bob. Lots of the action in those evolve because they are flat, narrow and thin.

I use this tube mold for Lake Trout baits. Period. I don't fish bass with tubes. I haven't put a tube in the water for crappies or sunfish in years and years as there are better baits and I happen to make them.

I have the wires cut to dip tubes, but the hand-cutting just doesn't "cut it" for me. Once in a great while I have done a tube for walleyes but now when I want a bait that is tube-like in a walleye bait I make then by using sprues and cutting the filaments with a razor blade into about half of a three inch piece leaving the other end solid for hooking on a jig.

I'm real specific about my lake trout tube colors and that's why I make them. If I need something for walleye I am more inclined to buy a package t the bait shop. Since I don't use them for pannies I don't have to worry about it.

CTOM I would agree with you the machine in designing would be expensive . :yikes

Nice bait Tom and yes lifesavers is the right name for it.

cool looking tube ! But not sure it would be worth that much trouble!

There's a lot of cutting in there Nimrod. I made the one just to see what the outcome would be like. I don't see the tube as being a real practical bait but it certainly could be used as one.

just amazing what you can make.:ThumbsUp:ThumbsUp:ThumbsUp

Excellent work, never seen anything remotely like it. I agree with the Life Savers name.

Imaginations are awesome, sometimes. Like the lifesaver colors too. Enjoy seeing all the various ways to color the soft plastics. Very interesting for sure.

Sweet! I like life saver too!

Nice are work. I can certainly appreciate the time it took. I have the 4" mold and doing the baits one at a time, clearing them off the spline re-clamping and starting over is a timely process. Like you said it is quite an investment to produce one bait at a time, but they do shoot clean. Saving my $$ for another tube mold set-up.

Like these a lot

I just wonder what kind of mold the big companies use for their 2 inch tubes. I would love to have one like this that is multi cavity that was 2 inch. I know I could not afford the price, but it would be sweet to have.

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I just wonder what kind of mold the big companies use for their 2 inch tubes. I would love to have one like this that is multi cavity that was 2 inch. I know I could not afford the price, but it would be sweet to have.

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If the big companies have molds to shoot multi cavity tubes it would be pretty good size I would hate to think the cost if they were all precut in the mold I was a stupid fool for not buying the molds from Rick when he had the 2 inch in multi cavity Jacob makes a solid head but you have to cut the skirt by hand I told Rick that I would gladly play $10 apiece for the cams that go in the mold to make it precut I believe 10 cavity mold like that would probably be well over $165 or more I would gladly pay $200 to have one we are working on a design but it will not be in the shape of the tube skirt it will have a solid body and there is where I stopped we plan on for sending this to my mold maker maybe later on in the spring I do have four precut molds but they are one and a half inches also I have the skirt mold three of them know I will not give them up they are collectors items now because of the first ones that Rick did have a Grubb head in the ones he's making now are smooth and round.

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I just wonder what kind of mold the big companies use for their 2 inch tubes. I would love to have one like this that is multi cavity that was 2 inch. I know I could not afford the price, but it would be sweet to have.

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Not all compaines shoot a tube!! Some compaines Dip their tubes multi!! To some folks a big difference!!! We think the dipped tubes are better but may just be a condifence thing.:twocents

That is one sharp tube,good work.

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Not all compaines shoot a tube!! Some compaines Dip their tubes multi!! To some folks a big difference!!! We think the dipped tubes are better but may just be a condifence thing.:twocents

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Most of the stuff on the market is dipped some of the guys are wanting solid heads getting a plastic just right is very tricky because you want a nice cut most of the are hand cut we are working with do it plastic which they come out pretty nice with a commercial cutter. I prefer to use my molds that are precut in them and they are solid head I only have the small size 1.5.