Sat down with my girls before momma got home and made some stencils for our crappie cranks. Now time for momma bday dinner. Have a good night. Attachment 210033Attachment 210034
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Sat down with my girls before momma got home and made some stencils for our crappie cranks. Now time for momma bday dinner. Have a good night. Attachment 210033Attachment 210034
OK what is the can used for with the vacuum, is that how you make the packages.
Pretty daughters, must of took after their mom :) JK :)
Nope lol, you hear the stencil up with heat gun and place on the can. Use the vacuum to pull the stencil around the crankbait. Then you draw the pattern you want in the stencil and cut it out. When you spray the bait you can have pre cut partterns
Pretty neat.
You answered my question. Thanks. When you said you cut the design out...........what do you use? Dremel tool, razor or?
Neat idea. what kind of plastic do you use?
That's a great idea!
Thanks for the info. I have never tried those for my crankbait painting but I can surely see if you painted a lot of cranks they would be very helpful :ThumbsUp
I have been seeing patterns for painting bodies and even feathers and I guess this is same kind of thing, but don't think they use a vacuum? Is that necessary to get a great paint job? I have never done any cranks and probably never will, but am interested in the process. I just get interested in lots of things like that. Very cool what you have going there!
Very pretty girls you have and you have to be a proud pop!
Skip
That's 2 cool I have a 2 foot by 3 foot vacuum table that I used to make RC car bodies and sheets of Lexan. I have the air brush and the compressor...thanks a lot I see crankbait painting in my near future[emoji15] [emoji379]
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Skip the vacuum sucks the stencil down flat to the crank. The stencils aren't necessary as I have painted many with out stencils. It just makes it a more efficient process and time saver.
I plan to use a Dremel to cut the pattern out .
I will post some pics of my cranks for ya.
Thanks would love to see that! I was just looking at one of my catalogs and have been seeing some color coloring patterns, but thinking about it I bet these may bae smaller than what you use since these are for fly bodies and even to color a feather with some kind of marker. was just thinking maybe they would also work with what your doing. Remember I know absolutely nothing about this!
The Dremel is one bad to the bone tool for sure!
Thank you,
Skip
Nice work
Those a just a few will post more later
Man is great looking crank baits for sure.
Looks great, good job!
Skip
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These are some more I have done.
Is that a special plastic you use for the stencils?
It is stencil material you can buy at say walmart. It has a clear film on it you remove before hearing it up.
Those are some sweet cranks. That's a cool trick to make the stencils.
Thank you sir my daughters and I sure enjoy painting them.
What is that plastic called. I was in Wal-mart and could not find any and the Lady I talked to had no clue as to what I was talking about.
You can use lexan check out on YouTube vacuum forming
Hobby Lobby and other craft stores have thin plastic to use for this also. Some that work good have no indication that it will work for stencils, but plastic is generally plastic and reasonable in price so it wouldn't cost the farm to try something new. Just getting my can set up for some of my own.
You and the girls do nice work on those cranks, I need to post some pics of mine soon.
Thank you sir. Let's see yours bud. Always like seeing everyone's work and even fish catches
Thank you. Those are absolutely beautiful.Quote:
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I can see that orange craw bait [lower right in pic cluster] hanging in the chops of a walleye up here in a couple months. Nice work and good work keeping the girls tied up in it. This is making memories that will be re-lived many times over in the future.
Those are some great looking cranks. You have been an good mentor. Keep up the good work. Great job girls
I would like to see this turn into a tutorial page on how to paint crank baits.
I was wondering how you got that itty bitty little honey comb pattern on your cranks, then I saw the last two photos with the mess on the bait. That is just pure genius.
Awesome work my friend.Quote:
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Thanks all.