I just got my first airbrush. Looking to start painting my own crappie cranks. Looking for the best place to buy some blanks. Thanks for any info I'm also new to the forum.
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I just got my first airbrush. Looking to start painting my own crappie cranks. Looking for the best place to buy some blanks. Thanks for any info I'm also new to the forum.
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I just got into it myself and there's a lot of places to get them but the quality of most of them are not very good. Unpainted lures. Com has some that seem to be of good quality. If you're looking for crappie crankbaits the only thing I've found that is close to a bandit is on wlure. Com. If you find a good place to get hi quality baits let me know too. I'm still trying to find good blanks myself.
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Some of the guys I know at Tackleunderground get their blanks from these folks - this is the crappie sized one but they have other blanks
DCB Point 5
Here's some more - I don't know anything about crank blanks!! So this info is from the guys at TU.
www.predatorbassbaits.com/id69.htm
www.unpaintedlures.com
dakotalakestackle
bustinbassbaits.com
https://www.wlure.com/collections/blank-lures
http://www.nitrolures.com/
Thanks for the info. I'm having trouble telling which model crank bait blank is the closest to a bandit 100 200 or 300 series
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You might send a PM to "mrdux" of the KY forum, and ask him. He uses the C55 blanks, which are close to the 300 series Bandit (but, may dive a little deeper). I'm sure he'd give you the skinny on the blanks that are closest to the 100 & 200 series Bandits.Quote:
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OR .... you can check on the Member Sponsor Classifieds forum, and see which other members are painting cranks & where they're buying the blanks.
Thanks for the info
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https://www.wlure.com/collections/bl...nt=16626257350. This is the closest to the 300 bandit I can find
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Yep that's what I was just looking at thanks. Gonna order 20 and try my hand at painting some up. Thanks everyone for the info.
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Be sure to check out YouTube for tips. Check out lure color studio very good videos and products.
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We like Jannsnetcraft good blank's,Lurepartsonline has some good ones. Barlows tackle shop.We also watch Wal-mart."repaint" the color you want "these baits are already painted but can sand them down and repaint..I know most of us know Bassfishermen that have a tackle box full of crank's they need to get out of their way."yard sales" have found some good buy's.
Shelt's Fishing Tackle House-More Saving,More Fishing
Might have what you are looking for. Not sure on quality though. I have a business so I purchase directly from distributors. Usually purchase a bait with a neutral color that is easy to overpaint. Most companies don't want to actually sell you a blank (such as Rapala). Unless you are doing High volume custom painting and selling.
I've only bought one bach from shelt's but they ran true. The hook eyes are not always straight but for the price they are pretty good. I think I had to tune a couple of them but most ran great.
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He had some baits I was really interested in a couple of months ago. Almost identical to the Reef Runner baits (I'm painting customs for walleye fishing). At any rate, either he can get them anymore, or they were "too Identical" to the reef runner, he stopped selling them.Quote:
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Very hard to find a deep diving minnow blank. Jann's lists them but they never have them in stock. I've scoured the internet high and low and just cannot find the deep diving minnows. Tons of the smaller long billed cranks but not the minnows.
I'm not sure how deep your looking for but I found some that look like a reef run. Online Web Shop | LURE COLOUR STUDIO
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Think I would just ask him as he has his email saying just ask so I would. Sometimes you get info you didn't have any idea about.Most every time I had a question back when I first started tying and making my glow jigs, I found out Mfg. that had something I thought may work, I called the president or who ever was in charge of that company and ask what I wanted to know. It did take me a few month to put it all together, but it did finally work well.Quote:
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Just saying,
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