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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: 2XL on 10/28/17 17:55 UTC
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How can I get a pearl Blue color akin to this jig head color ? Could I get it with a bunch of blue hi-lite or start with blue plastic and add plain pearl to that ? Thanks
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Lurecraft has a pearl blue powder for plastics that I use. Looks close to what you have.
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Just whip up a plain pearl and use a toothpick dipped in blue colorant and stir it in a tiny bit at a time until you have the blue as dense as you want it. You may try the same with a very small amount of white too to add some opaqueness to it. Or you can get the lurecraft stuff. I like the toothpick method because I can adjust the color or even use a different color.
Instead of the regular blue, I'd give the fluorescent blue a try first. You can always bring it down a notch using a dab of plain blue.
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Thanks guys. It's one of those colors that's been running through my brain that I need to try to make.
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Looking closer at that color bud I think you should try mega=dosing a clear plastic with blue hi lite. I'm betting you'd be about dead on. If you needed to swing the blue a bit darker just do the toothpick trick with regular blue but very little at a time.
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I think ctom is right with flourescent blue. I made some that were very close to that using flourescent blue and regular pearl powder.
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The picture isn't the greatest but it's like a light robin egg blue with a ton of white pearly sheen. Hard to explain.
Fluorescent blue. A color I don't have ..... Yet LOL
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Fluorescent blue. A color I don't have ..... Yet LOL
As the Marines say....GET SOME!
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Why didn't I ask this question last week when I placed on order with do-it. LOL
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That's the way I like to do things, only my theory is screw it up good first, then ask someone to help me fix it. :D
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Well I got some Fluorescent Blue and this is what I came up with on my first try. The pic doesn't show the true color. The pearl is dead on but I didn't get the blue I was looking for. Another drop or two of FB should get me real close to the color I am shooting for. If anyone is interested, I'll post the recipe once I get it tuned in. Thanks for the help guys.
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Little late to the party here, but I would very much like this recipe. Thanks
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Will this work?
http://custombaits.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=3176
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Would def be a step in the right direction. Looking for a new color for my 3 inch chub grub. Right now I am using most of the highlight colors and like them, just looking for something a little different.
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"Little late to the party here, but I would very much like this recipe. Thanks"
No problem sarge. I'm pretty sure I wrote it down in my cookbook. Just have to find the cookbook. LOL
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4 oz plastic
1.5 dashes of pearl powder
2 drops of X2 Fluorescent Blue
Tiny bit of UV
This gave me a nice light blue pearl color. I think I will add another drop or two of the Flo Blue next time. This was a requested color for a friend. I'll have to see what he thinks when I show him what I came up with.
You could back off the pearl powder. I went heavy with it because I wanted a heavy swirled pearl look.
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Thank you, I will give it a try (when I am done raking leaves)
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Raking leaves ? That's what lawnmowers are for. LOL
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Matches work well too as long as the wind is blowing away from the house/garage.
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Raking leaves ? That's what lawnmowers are for. LOL
I use my lawnmower too, but it blows a lot of the leave all over the place, so I rake them into the back yard first then feed the beast
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I use my lawnmower too, but it blows a lot of the leave all over the place, so I rake them into the back yard first then feed the beast
I made a board that closes off the shoot on my mower deck. Mulches up the grass great.
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I did a little tweaking on my pearl blue this morning. The baits go for a trial run tomorrow morning.
A little too blue for what I was shooting for but close. I was going for three drops of X2 Flo Blue but a fourth drop made a fast break into the cup before I could do anything about it. LOL
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The ones with the white tail look real close to the old style bfishn paddle tail color. Ice blue with pearl tail. I've caught a lot of nice walleyes on that color. Being in a swim shad it will catch even more fish!
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I did a little tweaking on my pearl blue this morning. The baits go for a trial run tomorrow morning.
A little too blue for what I was shooting for but close. I was going for three drops of X2 Flo Blue but a fourth drop made a fast break into the cup before I could do anything about it. LOL
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Strange, cuz I did something similar this morning. I went to put 20 drops of flo orange into some heated plastisol. Don't know what happened but I woke the hell up as drop #26 was falling into the cup. Sure is pretty tho.
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I vaguely remember that color. A friend requested this color. The tail is that Turquoise pearl color. I used that because I had some scrap handy. A sparkle white pearl or plain white would work better I think. With the low water/current I shot these in the thin tail SS mold.
BTW Shouldn't you be up a tree in a stand somewhere ? LOL
Too funny sarge. I also wrecked some scrap when I dropped some uncooked flo chartreuse plastic in a cup of scrap Turquoise pearl. That's what I get for getting in a hurry. LOL
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Sweet color 2XL
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I have recently been playing around with these colors to make a blue/black chub grub, I wanted to come up with one that would come close to the original jig head that 2xl posted at the start of this thread. I came up with one I like a lot and it looks killer with a flo chart tail.
4 ounces plastisol
one half drop of x2 black
1/8 tsp blue hi lite
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It's a bad picture but I made these today. It's about as close to that jighead color as I'm going to get = good enough for the guy who requested this color. The jighead color is actually a little lighter than what my picture shows.
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Those are sharp!. Guess I should have mentioned that I am shooting the ES grub so the matte color also makes mine a little darker but I am glad I played with it cuz I like the color
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LIttle late to the party, but I would venture to say MF’s 73-baby blue with do-it’s pearl powder would get you real close to that jig head color.
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I made some of the PB with a pearl white and solid white tail and the white tail really makes the color pop. It should with the ES molds too should you want to make that combo. I could tweak the color a little more to match that jighead color but it's super close as is and I'm not going to burn any more time messing with it.
Thanks T. I bet I have looked through MFs colorants a hundred times and never noticed that color. LOL I did use Do-its Pearl powder. A fair bit of it compared to how much I usually use in other colors.
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Tried the MF colorant for this I mentioned before with a “hefty” dose of pearl powder and came out with these. Could still stand to use more pearl in my mind, but this blue is it’s own creature. It seems to totally take over the plastic almost seemingly changing the physical properties of it. It seems to ‘melt” differently after the fact and trying to adjust the color is a tall task. But in the end I’m happy with the results. If only winter would loosen its grip to test these on some toothy critters, but that don’t look to be the case next few weeks.
(http://custombaits.com/index.php?action-gallery;sa=view;id=3195)
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Well for what ever reason I cannot post pictures using every method I could think of. Only getting a multitude of errors. Able to put it up in the gallery but trying to get it hear is another story. It’s far exceeded my frustration level for one night