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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: ctom on 02/11/14 08:04 UTC

Title: glider gone wild
Post by: ctom on 02/11/14 08:04 UTC

At the get-together several of us had the chance to play with core shots. As a rule I am pretty neutral on doing them. I like to play once in a while and that's when I do most of the ones I do. This glider core shot turned out really nice.

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/IMG_0328.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/IMG_0328.jpg.html)

The top and bottom baits are seen straight from the side and you can't even see where the color was placed to get the core color while the ones in the middle show the core color placement nicely.

These have now found a home in my walleye bucket. Being pink I am going to target some big fat ol female getting ready to spawn.

Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: invertedn04 on 02/11/14 08:20 UTC

That looks awesome. Is this where you pour the fisrt color in the spure then shoot the second?

Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: ctom on 02/11/14 08:38 UTC

No. In this fashion of creating a core color, we filled one side of a mold by hand with plastic, then added a drop of raw colorant [midnight blue in this one] to the head end of the hand pour using a toothpick. The mold gets closed and clamped and then the rest of the mold got filled by injection. As the injected plastic runs into the mold it washes the core color along with it. If you look closely at the top and bottom baits in the picture you cannot see the core color at all viewed straight on from the side. When viewed from the bottom, as in the two center baits, you can see how the injected plastic has pulled the raw color along with it thru the mold.

This makes a "flat" core color in the bait's body and is most visible from the top and/or the bottom. There doesn't appear to be anything there if viewed straight on from the side but if you begin to turn the bait ever so slightly the color colors immediately becomes noticeable. The tail plastic is thin enough that the core color is readily seen and being random as the color gets washed along it creates some very cool marbling. You won't find the tail splash like you see here doing the sprue pour and injection but you will get a more two dimensional core.

Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: Bass in the hood on 02/11/14 20:18 UTC

Very nice my gliders are so simple.

Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: WALLEYE WACKER on 02/11/14 22:58 UTC

Killer bait tom is that x2 florescent pink.

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Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: ctom on 02/12/14 04:38 UTC

That is the X2 pink Mike.

Title: Re: glider gone wild
Post by: pieterbez on 02/12/14 06:56 UTC

Wow those are stunning