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After hours of reading and gathering information I finally bit the bullet and got me some stuff to give pouring a try. Thanks for all the help from you guys I got started. Learned from Dr. Nip 29 drops of white is a bit much lol. This is really fun to do but a warning it is time consuming.
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My recipes
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Lol yeah 29 drops of X2 white is overkill!!!! Great baits man. Proud of you.
Nice baits JW, them will catch some fish for sure.
Good baits for your firsts!
You did good my friend.
Nothing wrong with that kickoff. Good work!
Nice work. That mold is frustrating sometimes with the tails moving when you lift the mold. I like to fish those baits and is about all I use for vertical jigging. On 2 part baits I push my thumb nail down on the tail and pull the body off without taking the bait or tail out of the mold at all. A RonDon trick!
You are doing a fantastic job keep up the good work.
He Ron how do u split the body then. I used a pair scissors but a razor blad have a nicer splice
What are you wanting to do make the body one color and tail one color . or are you trying to make a 50-50 split on your plastics. depending on which plastic meat that you are going to make the mo bait puts your forefinger on the tail and pulled the body off closure mold back up and shoot the body color. if you want to make a 50-50 split you could either use tinfoil or make a laminate plate out of metal but the tinfoil on the mold closed mold backup shoot it on a part you will have two halves take the bodies out of the half but it back together and shoot your second color warning you may have splitting occurs if you do not get the temperature just right best way to do this one is to use a dual injector.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
Yep so far just a body one color and a tail a separate color is my goal. I only have one injector. Can ya get just the tail section welded to a new body? I was leaving a little bit of body on to give more surface to weld the second color.
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you are doing just fine I make mine the same way as you to have a good solid connection. contact Lakeside tell Chuck you want a tell mold he will make you a tale mold for that bait.
it is a good producer I used it last year on the snake River caught a lot of different fish including big perch also some mighty fine crappie with it they sure I've got some bluegills here in Texas with it. also like quite a few smallmouth bass in Oregon with it.
I forgot to mention if you ever do decide to buy a dual injector get a hold of Bass tackle they make the best it is the one that I have it does a beautiful job I will post some of mo bait used in the dual injector to show you.
I need to apologize here you need to contact do- it for the mo bait tail moldQuote:
Originally Posted by snake River
As I promised I would show you what it looks like with the dual injector mo bait.
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That looks sweeeeeeettt
I did contact do it and they don't offer a tail mold. A mold from lakeside is around $250-300 depending on how many tails in the mold. Guess I will just be stay doing what I am doing for that money. Thanks for help and insight.
I am sending you a PM regarding this.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
These are pinched off in the mold .
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Bass Tackle is the dual injector I have and it has produced some clean baits for me.
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I don't pour too many baits like this anymore as I usually just pour a one colored bait or a one color body on to a one color tail. I keep telling myself I need to pour dual injected baits but I don't.
When I was selling to the public I used to cut the tail along the body with scissors. It was a curved cut.
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I found that if I didn't place the tail a 1/16" or so inside the body cavity, the pressure of the body color coming into the cavity would push the tail down a bit and I would have body color showing on the tail. Even with the tail being inside the body cavity 1/16" too much pressure would push it down. I was after a clean bait and this is sloppy to me. This annoyed me.
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Now that I'm not selling to the public I don't care about the body being one color and the tail being another. The fish don't care either. It is also easier doing it this way in my opinion. I also found that you get a better bond as there is more surface when fusing the two together. I just use a utility knife blade and press straight down to cut.
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Dr. Nip is a great guy and helps new people with questions and colors and tips unlike "Some" Key word "SOME" people who sell plastics and think they own the market this is a great hobby if you surround yourself with the right people! Keep up the good work b/c I know you are like me and new and just getting into the hobby hopefully we can learn a lot together and share what we learn and also our mistakes lol since we both live in the same area!