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Been fooling with these for the last few days. Wanted to share what you can do with a paint brush and 2 jars of powder paint. A quick tip, don't try to paint while holding the jig over the candle. Mine started melting, LOL.
Here's one of my favorite colors, 1/4 oz. #1/0 hook, pink over white with silver krystal flash. I'm starting to really like this jighead. I'm using them for saltwater except the 1/8th oz.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...s/DSCF0039.jpg
What do y'all think?
Looks like a killer bait,very nice.
I like that. How do you do it? Do you heat and apply the white and then reheat and dust on the pink? I can see it now, more jigs to tie.
"gene"
I heat it over a flame and dip it in the under color first, then take a cheap paintbrush and dust the top color. Then reheat the top part you dusted over the flame til smooth. Bake and tie.
Thanks for the comments guys. Hope to give them a test this April.
Thanks for the explanation. I'll try to tie some in the favorite local colors for speckked trout.
"gene"
Gonna toss some at the trout myself. ;) Gonna do a few for flounder, too.
Smoothlures
A variable temp heat gun will really help out doing multi colors.
Some of these jigs, in the pic, have up to 5 colors on them.
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Those do look good. I do need a heat gun, if I take too long putting on the second color I have to hold it over the flame for a good while for it to heat up and go smooth again.
Thnx SL
Don't undercoat (paint gets too thick). With the gun you can see the applied coat start to glisten - depends on how high your temp setting is (I keep it around 350 F) and how close you hold the jig to the heat source - that is when you want to get it out of the heat and add your next color. I think cadman has a tutorial for applying multiple colors.
The technique is easier to do with larger jigs – especially with saltwater. However, you can do ultra-lite jigs also. I like the 1/32 chub jig – excellent swim jig or bottom hugger.
Be careful - the painting might interfere with your tying.....
I'll give it a shot. I just did up some pearl/black and chartreuse/white jigs to try out. I'm liking them better than just 1 solid color when I have so much area to work with on 1/4 and 1/2 oz saltwater jigs.
Yup, heat gun is the only way to do it, got mine at Wal-mart for like 20 or 25 bucks, 2 heat settings. Low is all you need.
Have done heads down to 1/80 oz. with no trouble. But have seen times if you do a white base, then a darker color on top, then bake the head, the darker color will fade. So any more, i just do the base color, then bake, then reheat the head with the heat gun, and apply second color, darker color comes out fine, and i dont have to re-bake.
Painting heads like this, is as bad as jig tying, ITS ADDICTING !!
THANKS, cadman for the idea.
Yeah I just had a problem with a white undercoat with green chartreuse on top, it lightened the green up a lot. Would you bother baking it twice or just use the brush to put on the 2 different colors?
DO IT RIGHT SMOOTH"GET YA A MILWAUKEE BRAND HEAT GUN STILL AT WAL MART W/1 THRU 10 SETTINGS"MOST APPLICATIONS YOU NEED TO USE SEVEN AND LOWER, OR IF YOU NEED TO HEAT QUICK 7 THRU 10... VERY VERSATILE BECAUSE YOU NEED TIME TO TIE THEM AS WELL RIGHT?THINK BOUT IT BUD"!?!?TAKE CARE GUY'S":)OH ALSO TRY EYE DROPPER FOR THE POWDER PAINT APPLICATION WHEN WORKING W/ THE GUNS INSTEAD OF BRUSH"I KNOW IT SOUNDS CRAZY"BUT MAN" TRY IT ONCE SEE IF I AIN'T JUS A BULL LIPP'N YA"!:DMORE CONTROLQuote:
Originally Posted by smoothlures
The ones i did, i just did the base coat,light color, baked that, and came back with the heat gun, warmed the head, did the second color and called it good, WITHOUT BAKING A SECOND TIME.Quote:
Originally Posted by smoothlures
I dont think a second bake is nessary because you have allready baked the first coat, and all you are realy doing is adding to the intial coat that was allready baked. That is the nice thing about using the heat gun, you can get that nice smooth second coat.
Not tryig to sound like a pro at this, but this method has worked for me.
BM
Would like to see some pics of your 1/80th multi colored jigs. how many colors are you adding to it?
Thanks for good advise guys! I've done two colors myself but the heat gun sounds like a better plan then using a lighter. I normally heat the jig, dip the entire jig into whatever base paint, then reheat a little bit and carefully dip into next color. I really don't have a pattern to my multi-color jig heads, I just dip the head into the second color at random angles and then bake the jig.
Al
So far i just do the base coat and then add the different color. Then just tie in the matching body, of craft hair or calf tail. Dont have any pics right now, but i will see what i can do, might be a couple of days.Quote:
Originally Posted by LedHed
Spring is here and it is time to go fishin.
I multi color some of my heads, I heat up jig dip in 1st color rejeat and sprinkle 2nd color over the jig. here are some 1/80 ozQuote:
Originally Posted by LedHed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...shing059-1.jpg
is this all done before you bake them on is the 2nd color added after the initial baking?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiggin_Joe
i do both colors bake then do eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Crappie
oh and as you can see the eyes arent cleaned out cause I forgot to do it before i baked lol i can still get them cleaned out but very hard to do.