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Not the most beautiful works of art like I see here but the crappies, walleyes and steelhead don't mind.
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You do not need to knock your jigs...They look fine to me and apparently looked fine to the fish also...Enjoy your fishing and tackle crafting.
Great looking jigs.
OH YES, Winners for sure, nice ties!!
Jigs look fine and seems the fish are okay with them as well.
Skip
I believe you might be selling yourself short, those jigs look excellent....
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Nice looking stuff! And they work !
You get a big thumbs up from me on your jig heads. I especially love the Hot Pink one with the two tone eyes. The ties are much better than when I first started tying too. I just sent you a PM. Welcome from Alabama.
Mike
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Long is that your jigs or catching fish there's nothing wrong with them .
Thanks guys! I don't get out the 180-200 days a year like I used with two kids now so tying and painting fills that void. Plus it's fun having my 3 year old design his own jigs for me to tie.
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I think you've been doing this a while from the looks of your jigs. Nice work and good color. The different materials helps on days they are slow to bite, more stuff to try. Good Job!
A lot of old folks like me would give their eye teeth to go fishing 200 days a year.
Great looking jigs.:ThumbsUp Just a suggestion, when painting your heads, heat the head and just before you dip it, grab the hook eye with some needle nose pliers, then dip it in the paint. It keeps your hook eyes free of paint.:highfive
I've been contemplating doing a fluid bed, I've watched videos of them online and it really doesn't seem all that much faster than how I bake them now. Most of the time I can do a 100 jigs with basecoat, 1-2 layers of paint, add the eye, add the pupil and then clear coat it in about 300 hours including dry time?
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I guess you are painting with Vinyl? That is the more durable paint for sure, but the Powder Paint is faster, but more costly IMHO! I mean with Powder paints there are also a lot of color choices that I don't think are offered in Vinyl, but I am not so sure you need that many colors anyway. I mean really the pretty colors are as much to catch the fishermen as they are to catch fish, lol!Quote:
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If your happy with what your doing why change?
Skip
What Skip said. BTW, I really like the arctic fox fur that Skip turned me on to.
Works of art, Otter.
I do both vinyl and powder. Currently with powder I line up 25 jigs in the toaster oven, heat em to temp, dip in white, clear the eye, back into the oven, cover with 1-2 coats of the main color, clear the eye than cure em. After that I add the eyes and pupils and then spray them with a clear coat epoxy or UV coat.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
I just seem to hear about guys being able to do more faster with a fluid bed.
I'm not saying anything I do is right or well wrong either, the amount of info I have learned from this forum is outstanding!
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Might have to invest in some. Never played around with it. Most of the stuff I have is craft select, kip tail, bucktail, marabou and rubber. Thanks for the tip!Quote:
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3 hours not 300 ha. Damn sausage fingers.Quote:
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Wow, your doing so much with them. I dip in powder paint, clear eyes and into oven and finished! Now if I want to add glitter I will dip in color, then clear with glitter and then oven. Only time I will use a clear coat finish in using Vinyl as it's not glossy with out the top clear coat. Eye I mostly only put on Roadrunners and that is just a dot of Black Vinyl after the powder paint is cured. Once eye is dry I tie it and done.Quote:
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Seems your going through some things you don't really have to do?
Skip
Thought that 300 hrs would amount to some over-curing, or a type. I also have sausage fingers. That's why my keyboard has larger and wider-spaced keys. It's called a "keys u see" board.
Never painted with vinyl. One thing I've found with the powder paint is that it is very easy to mix colors. I have a scale and can mix the colors with percise ratios and come up with colors that no one else has. You would be shocked at what the slightest variation of a color can make.
I don't mind being tedious adding the eyes, whether it's paint or gel eyes but it's funny I refuse to put eyes on the salmon/steelhead/looper jigs I tie!Quote:
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Loopers were the only reason I started tying, junk tackle for those fish so being able to put in a quality hook into lead was great. Then I found a china connection that will do 500 jigs at a time with tungsten instead of lead. Which has been a huge success for chasing schools of salmon and loopers.
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Man I don't even know what a looper is, lol! Have never been up North like that where I could fish, heck only time in NY was their airport headed to South Africa years ago. I would love to do some of that NW fishing at some point, but my body is about to the point I am not sure I will ever make it. You have an entirely different fisheries set up for you there and down here we don't even have Small Mouth Bass!Quote:
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Skip
It's a strain of steelhead, we have "native" steelhead if you can call them that. Loopers are stocked by the department of natural resources. Real fun fish, 12 foot rods, 4 pound test and casting into Lake Superior. It's a blast! https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f925346de5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...524683e709.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1b6f1e94bd.jpg
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Looks like fun to say the least and really nice looking fish!
Skip
My son (Montanaboy) used to catch those fish, plus big browns and salmon, when he lived in Chicago. He didn't have a boat back then, so he went out on charters, trolling in the early mornings.
And that idea of mixing colors is something I never thought of. Thanks for a really nice tip.