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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Soft Plastic and Plastic Baits - How To??? => Topic started by: Fontebassfishing on 02/22/15 16:43 UTC

Title: Core shot questions
Post by: Fontebassfishing on 02/22/15 16:43 UTC
From what i understand you pure half the mold then drip colorant on the poured side then shoot the rest if not any info will help me out alot and iv tried posting pics of baits iv made but it never works lol
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: Lamar on 02/22/15 16:49 UTC
  Maybe I'm wrong but I thought a core shot was hand pour a small amount of plastic in the mold and then inject the rest. It only works well with top pour molds.
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: ctom on 02/22/15 16:53 UTC
First, the hand poured plastic has to be fairly cool before the colorant is dabbed on it. Second, you have to be careful how much colorant you put on the hand poured portion. I've had very limited success using any colorant other than the X2 products because others are just to thin to show up well. Too much colorant will prevent a decent weld and can leak into the mold creating one heck of a mess. The process takes some serious practice and even then there is no way to predict how things will turn out.
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: bassinfool on 02/22/15 16:55 UTC
Lamar and ctom are both right; there are two different techniques for achieving a similar outcome.  I can tell you right off that using the method Lamar outlined absolutely will not work with multi cavity molds.
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: ctom on 02/22/15 17:30 UTC
" I can tell you right off that using the method Lamar outlined absolutely will not work with multi cavity molds."....bassinfool

Ya, I struggled with doing it this way for a while and discovered the way I do it now and haven't ever looked back.
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: ctom on 02/22/15 17:34 UTC
Here's a core doing it my way....

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/408f483a-61cf-4c71-a41d-fcddc701347a.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/408f483a-61cf-4c71-a41d-fcddc701347a.jpg.html)

Here's another one....

(http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/cttackle/af1c5b6f-ca7d-4e05-a95e-0ed0ed735bb3.jpg) (http://s941.photobucket.com/user/cttackle/media/af1c5b6f-ca7d-4e05-a95e-0ed0ed735bb3.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: Lamar on 02/22/15 18:03 UTC
  I guess what Tom is showing is what I call bleeders. To me a core shot is done on a single top pour mold. Most guys take a lighter color first and a darker color to push through it to make the core shot.
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: DF on 02/22/15 18:40 UTC
Here is what Lamar is talking about.
(http://i.imgur.com/xTKeY5J.jpg)
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: Edgecrusher on 02/22/15 22:10 UTC
Here is what Lamar is talking about.
(http://i1375.photobucket.com/albums/ag468/madethesun111/c48db9a2-e456-4495-855c-e45a14991a26_zps901364ba.jpg?t=1406579900)
Simply awesome!
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: Fontebassfishing on 02/23/15 14:00 UTC
Awsome thanks guys i need to get a laminate plate cause i dont have steady hands so its always a mess when i hand pour and any tips how to post pics tried tap talk and it does not have the do it molds on the just the old cany creek and it dont work
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: mike27 on 02/23/15 14:25 UTC
I add taptalk like a month ago try again
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: AJayToRemember on 02/23/15 22:37 UTC
Upload to photobucket, copy the image link, and hit the icon right above the first smiley face, paste it in there in between the two image brackets and preview it to make sure it worked. And I wonder if DF's core shot would work well on the 2 cavity ES frog? The way the cavities are placed on either side of the runner it seems that the plastic would flow pretty evenly between them, although I could certainly be wrong. Just a thought  8)
Title: Re: Core shot questions
Post by: Fontebassfishing on 02/24/15 21:56 UTC
Upload to photobucket, copy the image link, and hit the icon right above the first smiley face, paste it in there in between the two image brackets and preview it to make sure it worked. And I wonder if DF's core shot would work well on the 2 cavity ES frog? The way the cavities are placed on either side of the runner it seems that the plastic would flow pretty evenly between them, although I could certainly be wrong. Just a thought  8)
I do that and stiil does not work