DrNip’s CrinKle Paint Theory

Huge shout out to JUNGLEJIMJIGS for commenting on starting his crinkle jigs in a cold oven.

Years ago I used to start the baking process on my jigs in a cold oven. After so long of doing this I discovered certain colors would start to run at a cooler temp and started introducing my jigs into an oven preset at a 320 degree.

Well tonight I reverted bake to my cold oven starting days and voila it was like magic. The paint starts reacting at a cooler temp. You’re wanting the paint to run to get the tearing apart effect. You can see the excess paint run onto the hook shank. Thankfully I bought some jighead clamps do to this paint as I haven’t needed them for 7-8 years I’ve been painting. 200ish you can see it running and when it gets to a certain temp it stops running. My problem in the past had nothing to do with how I was adhering the paint to the head but how I was baking it. When I introduced head at 320 and it was way past the point to where it would run but instead start hardening to the head.

Now that I understand it’s the heating up process that causes the tears off to perfect it!

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Awesome. Glad JUNGLEJIMJIGS told everyone and you confirmed. I’m thinking it’s time I gave it another go myself when I can find time. Pretty jigs DrNip.

I was at the point thinking it was the lead I was using and was about to go back to using pure lead. Never thought in a million years it’d been putting jigs in a cold oven to start up the baking process!

Great to hear. I'm ordering some crinkle paint tonight. I wanted to a couple weeks ago but had to hold off. Can't wait for it to come in...

So..... the frustration has ended.

I am gonna experiment a little by reducing initial heat setting, then raising it to normal later to finish.

I cannot wait to see what you fashion up with them funky heads.

That is an awesome effect

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Originally Posted by Micanopy

So..... the frustration has ended.

I am gonna experiment a little by reducing initial heat setting, then raising it to normal later to finish.

I cannot wait to see what you fashion up with them funky heads.

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I was pretty much done with wasting my time on this paint until JUNGLEJIMJIGS suggestion of cool oven so down the rabbit hole I went again.

My next move to lower heat to around 200ish to see how it does. Might not need to though. I did three different runs last night. I allowed oven to cool completely and then put jig in there and set to 320. Each time it would start to run and tear around 200-220 and then stop. I don’t know if getting less paint on would better or not as I think you want it to run and too little won’t let it. Definitely going to need more experimenting to get it dialed in.

Simple yet amazing results using the cold oven technique. Pink heads look great. See what I mean that heads are almost to nice to put eyes on.

Great lookin jigs, glad you got it figured out. You’ll make some nice ties with those.

Sorry the picture is a little dark but that’s robin egg blue with crinkle gold.

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Decided to give this another try yesterday. I think they turned out ok. I will be messing with crinkle paint more for sure now.

Good looking jigheads

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Good looking jigheads

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I bought this paint back in June and haven't messed with it since. On my to do list with colder weather around!