Originally Posted by
wicklundrh
I have done this before but there was not much money in it for my business.
From a jig perspective, the guy isn't that good. Hopefully he isn't selling them as the jigs have paint nipples and the eyes are full of paint.
That said, here is the tip/trick/whatever you want to call it to make that work.
There are actually a couple of different ways to make this happen.
The first is the harder of the two. After I dip my jigs, I utilize a sewing needle to remove the paint from the eyes of the jigs. At times, it leaves a string of paint on my table. Several strings of paint later, you can add those strings of paint on to your dipped top coat while applying heat with a heat gun. Can make some interesting patterns.
The second, and most common way of doing this is to "paint layer". You will take a certain amount of powder, put it in a cup, take a different color, put it in the cup, and so on. You dip your jigs through all layers to get the swirel pattern. Paint doesnt have to be layered horizontally, it can be layered vertically, split side to side, one half one color, one half the other.
The problem with this (and might be the reason for his paint nipples) is that you cannot stir the mixture. Once you stir it, you are putting all of the powder together. As a result, after the first couple of dips, your powder gets packed in.
Another way to accomplish this is with a coffee straw. Pack it with powder and direct it on to the jig while heating. And yet another way is to heat the end of a paperclip, dip it in the powder, remove, and then draw on your swirl or line while heating the jig.
To me, it looks like the drawing technique or the utilization of the paint strings technique.
In selling 20,000 plus jigs in the last 3 months, I can tell you that, although this technique looks cool, I doubt highly whether it will catch anymore fish. That said, from a bait maker prospective, the goal of business is to "CATCH FISHERMAN". This is a gimick product that would do just that!
