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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Turner10 on 06/27/14 20:37 UTC
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Can anyone tell why the glitter will not show up in the color red when shooting plastic? It's the only color that will not hold the glitter it's like it just goes away ?
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Never seen that?
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(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/28/2y7una6u.jpg)
Seems to show ok in the ones I've done
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I haven't had a problem with that either. How many drops are you putting in it?
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First off, welcome to the forums of Do-It.
You don't say what brand of colorant you are using but if its the X2 product Do-It sells, the stuff is incredibly powerful and a single drop too much can really mess with opaqueness. The glitter size can make a huge difference. If you are using a .008 or smaller sometimes deep colors like red block enough light to hide small flakes. Red in its own right filters light very well and may be stopping essential light from penetrating the plastic and hindering it from getting to the glitter and even then the red can block the reflected light.
Red plastic isn't a real friendly color to work with.
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Ugh, are you using red glitter? Lol
Welcome to the forum.
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That's hot montee! I'd kill for mine to be that shade!
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Yes I'm using x2 but the glitter does not show up well...maybe the glitter is to small I was using gold glitter...yes red is hard to work with..tnx for all the help just gonna keep trying with it
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Try just 1 drop and mix it up well then pour a little on the back of the mold with the spoon. This will show you what the color will actually look like out of the cup. Then add more color to taste. As was mentioned red is a strong color. Very little goes a Long way
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Turner, if you go back into the store section where the colorants are ordered, click on colorant and scroll down to where the basic recipes are found you'll see that red has no difference between the bait shot with 5 drops to four ounces and 10 drops to four ounces. When I consider a color, I always study that area to get a good idea of how much colorant [or in red's case how little] it will make to make the finished color opaque or with very little transparency. The X2 red shown in the colorant picture using 5 drops is pretty dense so I'd maybe start a recipe using four ounces at 2 drops. You can always add more colorant to opaque it.
Something to think about is what you can do with plastic. Red is a strong color and by keeping it a bit thinner than you think it should be you can add glitters to help deepen the color and you can add a red or rose hi lite to the plastic to give it some real fire from inside. I'd stay away from pearl unless you want an opaque bait with very little glitter showing. The hi lite used sparingly will give red a real nice bounce to the light moving thru it and will help the glitter by reflecting extra light inside the plastic if it is kept transparent enough....in thin red the glitter and hi lites deepen the color instead of the colorant. In sunlight the plastic using the hi lite and glitter will be super-charged almost. I'll assume that your plastic making is in its infancy and if so these things will come with time and experimentation. Don't give up on red, challenge it.
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Tnx everyone for all the info it was very helpful...monte really like the color of your craw where did you get that mold for it?
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That is Bears red shad. Its a nice darker red.
That mold is a custom made baby Rage craw.
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Ok tnx monte