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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: ctom on 03/24/14 17:23 UTC

Title: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/24/14 17:23 UTC

I was looking thru a color plate off one of the major league names in plastics and found one that I liked real well but figured it was going to be a mind-breaker trying to duplicate it so I got into a box full of obscure colorants from other sources and began to imagine things. One of these colors is called brown mayfly. Its a thin transparent brown full of bronze and copper hi lite. Its a nice color really so I whipped up a batch and decided to run it along my bluegill color since it too has some copper in it.

I shot the worms in two ways: one using the mayfly color as the belly color and the bluegill as the injection color, then I did a flip-flop using the bluegill as the belly color and the mayfly to inject. The result is a really nice combination that should be a great clean water color. For walleye this natural appearing color should be a real hit. I have both shown here.

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/41da1915-7f32-40f2-a6be-e82f83a81b82.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/41da1915-7f32-40f2-a6be-e82f83a81b82.jpg.html)

Its tough to see the hi lite come out of the mayfly in this shot because the sun took a dive but the cool smoke-like color is something else. I like this one.

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Blackhawk19 on 03/24/14 17:36 UTC

They look great!

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Bass in the hood on 03/25/14 00:02 UTC

Very nice! They look great.

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/25/14 08:59 UTC

After last night I have a table full of these colors. Once the walleye guys figure out that colors can be done in almost any combo things get nutty. lol

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/4b0c5f09-3199-4088-9d6a-217299588925.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/4b0c5f09-3199-4088-9d6a-217299588925.jpg.html)

I'll even have to try a couple of these color combinations. I can do that cause I know the guy that makes them. That oystershell at the bottom of the picture is one productive color and while most would want a chartreuse on the purple bait's tail, this fluorescent green sure will turn a head. Actually I do quite a few baits using this fluor.green for myself.

These are all X2 colors or colors made using the X2 products.

I'm really liking this mold and the walleye guys are super liking it right now. I do have to get back to my crappie stuff though.

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Slow Burn on 03/25/14 12:36 UTC

As usual you are truly an artist.    May I ask your recipe for the oyster shell bait?

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/25/14 13:26 UTC

Sure.

I use the soft plastic but use whatever you want. I add some stabilizer to the plastic along with copper, green, blue and purple glitter which makes my bluegill color. For the oystershell I add blue hi lite a little at a time until the clear plastic just begins to pearl a little. I check it as I add the hi lite by dropping a small puddle on a mold back and looking at the result before moving on with more hi lite. If I need to re-heat during the mixing stage I add a little more stabilizer each time the cup sees the microwave.

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Slow Burn on 03/25/14 15:27 UTC

Thanks,  I do the same thing as far as stabilizer on every reheat and dropping it on the mold back to see where the color is.  I learned it awhile back from some cat named ctom on here, reading one of his posts.  You every heard of master ctom?




Thanks again, Tom

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: SYBaits on 03/25/14 16:03 UTC

AWESOME !! 

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Jerry V on 03/25/14 19:51 UTC

Very nice work Mr. Tom.   8)

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/26/14 11:21 UTC

Here's a two-color core shot done in a bluegill plastic.

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/15ca4324-b30d-4071-96ed-7ccd4d2cf064.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/15ca4324-b30d-4071-96ed-7ccd4d2cf064.jpg.html)

The half-bait was hand poured and then a drop of midnight blue was on the sides next to a drop of baby bass, then the mold was finished with the bluegill.

Its fun to rotate these half-pour core shots and watch the colors change in intensity and width. Throw in a pile of multiple glitter colors and its almost like looking thru a prism..

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: DF on 03/26/14 13:09 UTC

nice!

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Slow Burn on 03/26/14 13:10 UTC

Awesome again

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: SYBaits on 03/26/14 14:26 UTC

Awesome Work !!

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/26/14 16:12 UTC

This Ring-It is about the easiest mold to shoot that I have used. Lots of fun with this one.

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: SYBaits on 03/26/14 16:13 UTC

Love to see a Ring It in 6.5 or 7"    (Hint Hint)  :-X

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/26/14 16:23 UTC

It is made in a 6".

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: SYBaits on 03/26/14 20:29 UTC

Where is it on the site???

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: ctom on 03/26/14 20:47 UTC

http://custombaits.com/index.php?topic=5227.0

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: Nordy on 04/21/14 13:31 UTC

Quote from: ctom on 03/25/14 08:59 UTC

After last night I have a table full of these colors. Once the walleye guys figure out that colors can be done in almost any combo things get nutty. lol

Getting Nutty  :P :D ;D

Title: Re: another Ring-it
Post by: brandx112679 on 04/21/14 17:41 UTC

 I have the 6 inch size in the ring it worm, and Ctom is right, that mold shoots great. Cool little worm.