Any tips on pouring split shot?
Or more or less cleaning em up?
Pour fine, extra difficult releasing from mold and very tedious cutting spruce w/o mangling the looks of em.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Any tips on pouring split shot?
Or more or less cleaning em up?
Pour fine, extra difficult releasing from mold and very tedious cutting spruce w/o mangling the looks of em.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Simple buy them!! LOL Tried pouring re-useable years ago and never could get them to come out and sold the mold!! Not worth the head ache! Plus in Vermont you can't use lead ones anymore! Have to use tin or steel.
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Thx but not an option. If I buy something in order to not go to a store. And not participate in the tat race ...then it will get learned.
To be truthful, was only trying to pretty em.
They’ll work as is
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Heck, those look fine for their job. I say use them.
How are you removing the spruce? I use a pair of dikes to hold the spruce and hold the jig head in my hand and rock it back and forth. It will break off very even.
Imma use em no doubt. Was just trying to get a better perspective. Thx for the kind wordsQuote:
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Same way more or less...Quote:
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Was thinking there was a way to be more efficient. Guess it’s like anything, learn the mold.
Thx everyone
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The only other way I know of is an xacto knife if it is light flashing. Watch the fingers, the knife cares nothing about meat in the way.
They look about normal to me...use soft lead, clip sprue off, go fishing.
For molds that are hard to get the finished product out of, consider a dry graphite spray and grab with pliers by the spure and lift straight up keeping it square to the mold. It's like that with the Do-It swimbait jighead mold, too.
Never poured any but use gate cutters to trim sprue. Only ground on one side and trim cleaner, and get closer. Those look good to me
You could try increasing your temperature,and adding a little tin to the mix,I had to paint the inside of one mold to get a smooth finish.the tin will help with getting the mold cavities to fill out better. Your mileage may very the ones in your picture looks okay to me I've never had a fish turn down my rig because a sinker didn't look right??? At least not one I know of anyways:highfive
If you ever want to make them shiny and remove excess lead, put them in an aluminum pan and shake them around and around. I always do that before using......works for me.