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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: MarylandBassFishing on 11/10/14 19:20 UTC
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Hey guys! Does anyone know of a way to make swirled baits so the colors don't mix and make a color that just doesn't look good?
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I can't offer much on swirling the colors, but welcome to the Do-It madhouse of fun and festivities.
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Thanks!
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There is a thread on how to do swirls for hand pours by putting a divider in your cup using aluminum and JB Weld.
I think there was also a thread on pulsing your twin injector for injection molds.
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If you are using a lam injecter you can lower the temp on one color and they will swirl differ them by about 15 to 20 degrees
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(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/11/10/48c22ea033a459247d7298dcb2284c0e.jpg) these where done with a twin injector and you pulse the plungers one at a time.
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I'd recommend trying to use the largest mold (volume wise) you have if you're injecting. It's a lot easier to swirl baits with a twinjector if you have more room to move each injector separately. Single cavity molds are much harder to swirl (at least for me). Hope this makes sense.
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billmo I've been trying to do this with smaller molds so I may have to jump up to a larger bait but I sure do like what you done here in the pitcher.
I have done swirling with paint on jig heads by putting the jig head in a drill in spinning it slowly and take the paint and barely dripping a thin line then go ahead and crank it up.
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Smaller baits are a lot harder to swirl because they don't use that much plastic.. it can be done, you just have to do much smaller pulses.
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Thanks guys! I'll definitely have to try some of these
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Just to clarify, I didn't mean its not doable in small baits or single cavity molds. I just meant it would be easier to learn with a larger mold first. Just keep working at it, you'll have it down before you know it!
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(http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx308/lamar2b/photo_zpsd7c2ffb4.jpg) (http://s766.photobucket.com/user/lamar2b/media/photo_zpsd7c2ffb4.jpg.html)
Here's some I made last winter. I like one color warmer then the other. Then just practice.
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Just to clarify, I didn't mean its not doable in small baits or single cavity molds. I just meant it would be easier to learn with a larger mold first. Just keep working at it, you'll have it down before you know it!
X2 what Jeff said
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LAMAR Your baits are awesome hope that I could do that one of these days.
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Thanks. You need to just take time a play with it. And then find what works for you