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Here are the steps I use when I powder coat my jigs.
1. Grab jig by the eye with hemostats and hold over alcohol burner to heat jig
2. Dip jig in powder paint in a fluidized cup.
3. Remove jig from hemostats and dip in cold water to cool the paint
4. Hang jigs in toaster oven for 30 min at 300 degrees
5. Put them in box ready to tie some hair on:D
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Wow. Those are some real good looking jig heads. I like the toaster oven idea!
A+ for this 'Powder-Paint-Along'. Excellent photography.
Great tutorial.
What hooks are you using, they look BN?
Do you use white as a base for any of your colors?
Nice post.
Robbor, I don't know what hooks they are, but you only need 1 coat of the color you want. No white base is needed.
However there are some new powder paint colors that are transparent, you dip it in 1 color then dip it in the transparent color.
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Robbor,
Those are Mustad #1 black nickle hooks and I also have some poured up with a Matzuo black nickle and red chrome. I don't use any base colors on my heads they are just dipped once.
Thanks guys
Nice looking jigs, I painted some to day also,But what is the fluidized cup& how do you use it? I just heat the head & dip into the powder??
Bentpole,
The fluidized cup is the same thing as a fluidized bed, it is a container made for powder coating. You have a cup that you pour your powder into and there is a air pump that pumps air into the bottom of the cup and keeps your powder from clumping up or getting packed in the cup. When the air is adjusted right it looks like boiling water. It give you a very even coating on your jigs and you don't use as much powder. I picked mine up from a guy on EBAY his website is www.Tjstackle.com The fluid cup was around $50 with two cups. You can buy extra cups for different color powder or you can just clean them out when you change colors. I hope this helps
there all all kinds of stuff you can do with powder coating, there are things you can add to get a vein look then go over it with a candy or you can add some special glitters to the colors for a little something extra but they show up best on darker colors
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Good post! I've been wanting to see a pictorial on that process.
Slab, I notice you grab the jig by the eyelet with your hemos. How do you keep the powder from sticking to the hemos? I like the idea, you don't have to clean the holes out every time.
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It will stick to the hemo's but I try to swish the jig across the top of the powder and not stick the hemo's down in the powder. You have to clean off the hemo's after about 25 jigs more or less. To clean them I just hold them over the alcohol burner and burn the paint off then wipe them with a rag and they are clean as new. Since I have been doing it this way I have not had to clean a single eye.
I get drips at the end of the jig head?? To much paint? If so how too reduce the amount? But nice post and great pics on how too.
That is where the fluid cup will help you out by pumping air up through the powder it dosn't put as heavy a coat on your jig. Then you don't have the drips. Just swirl your jig in the powder quickly it only takes a second to coat it.Quote:
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The guy where I bought my powder paint had me convinced I was going to ruin a bunch of jigs before I got it down.
I did nothing hi tech, I heated with lighter and painted 200 jigs this evening. If I would have known it was this easy i would have done it years ago. The only tip I can give it use Pro Tech paint the other two brands I purchased were not worth a crap.
Excellent tutorial post. We need more posts like this one.
I posted this silent vid on how to use a fluid bed while ago.
http://www.niffken.com/rcvids/ppaint.wmv
someone made a post the other day that made sense for having to much paint, they said to heat your jigheads to a lower temp.
I use small candles for my heat source. They last a long time and you learn quickly how close to hold your jig heads and for how long. I put the candle in an ash tray to keep down mess. I sometimes mix powder in separate containers to get different colors. I too use hemostat pliers, but I grip the hook to dip with. Paint in the eye is a problem, but get you a few "eyebusters" from Cabelas, they clean them out pretty well. I may try gripping the eye to see how it works for me. Thanks for the post. Now if I could only get better at tying jigs.
Or you can build your own for around 20 bucks with several extra cups. Be happy to tell you how. Just pm me.Quote:
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Slabo
Is that blaze orange that u r using in the pic?
I think it is Flame red or blaze orange they are both about the same color.
Excellent, thank you!
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Guest,
Very nice looking jigs. I have to commend you on the clean paint job. You mentioned adding something to get a veined look. Are you adding it to a standard color of powder, or are you buying veined powder? I would like to make a green veined jig. What would I add to my powder to make that. Any help would be greatly appreciated