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Jigs, Spinnerbaits and Sinkers => Spinnerbaits => Topic started by: Lamar on 02/26/15 19:06 UTC
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Got my new hobby sandblaster today. Kind of took my own spin on one small jaw did earlier.
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:o That's about as good as it gets right there, I like it.... Bass Candy. ;)
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Thanks. I've made this bait a few years now just never had a spray gun. Always just made the head in pearl white. I'm thinking this is a new direction in this bait from now on.
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You have good luck with the white blade?
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You have good luck with the white blade?
Yes in the spring many of our lakes get muddy and this works well. Also that is piano wire so there is a lot of thump with that blade.
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Blue and white by far the best winter cold front color! Very nice
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Lamar, you paint the blade too?
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Lamar, you paint the blade too?
No not on this one. I guess I could now with the gun. This is kind of opening new doors and ideas for me.
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When painting do you loose much powder or is the flow from the gun very easy to control? I've never tried spraying powder paint and was always wondering how much paint you loose in the after spray? Very professional looking bait!
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When painting do you loose much powder or is the flow from the gun very easy to control? I've never tried spraying powder paint and was always wondering how much paint you loose in the after spray? Very professional looking bait!
I'm new at this but I didn't think it was to bad. I only did five baits and sprayed in front of a box with some paper towels in it. There was some over spray so you do waste a little. I bought the gun from TJ's and it came with five bottles. And I bought some extra tubes. I think the best way to do this is to leave that tube with that color when your done with it. That way your not cleaning the sprayer and tubes all the time. Then when you go to a different color you change the tube dry hit it in the box a couple of times to clean the nose of the sprayer and go to town again. I was surprised how easy this really was.
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That's a nice blended color head Lamar. Good job.
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A friend of mine showed me the ropes on spraying powder paint on blade baits last fall. What he does is put a clean plastic bag inside a box. He lays the box on it's side with the open end facing him (obviously) and sprays his blades holding them just inside the box. Most of the over spray collects in the plastic bag which he then empties back into his paint jar once he's done spraying a certain color. Retrieving the powder paint over spray isn't as big a deal if you're painting a BUNCH of baits and are buying paint by the pound but if you're mostly painting baits for yourself and working with 2 to 4oz jars of paint then this is a good way to save yourself a little paint.
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Very nice. I like a Sparse skirt like that, not a dense 60-strand.
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Very nice. I like a Sparse skirt like that, not a dense 60-strand.
Fo Shizzle !
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Very nice. I like a Sparse skirt like that, not a dense 60-strand.
Why do people put so much skirt on them?
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Fo Shizzle !
HEY... save that talk for the boat!
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HEY... save that talk for the boat!
Right on Thug... gotcha Docta ! ;)
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Oh man, you are really going to like the spaying method Lamar and it looks like you have a good feel for it already. I spray my powder right out of 2oz jars, in fact I buy my powder by the pound except for specialty colors and I put the pain in the small jars and then use them. HJere is the thing, I don't screw the gun onto the jar, it wouldn't fit if I tried but I hold the jar by using my ring finger and pinky to hold the jar against my palm and then I stick the tube in and hold the gun with my middle finger wrapped around the base and my thumb pushing it into my hand while I use my index finger to press the button, I'll make a video sometime on how I do it. If I'm doing say 10 baits and there are 5 or one pattern and five of another I'll lay a large sheet of wax paper in my old boot box, on the bottom I have plain jig heads holding it down and against the back of the box I have a clip I made from a big staple. Now say the baits all have white bellies, I'll do all of the white bellies first, then I put my jar of white down and them in the box I'll put my finger over the nozzle of the gun and press the button and it will blow the remaining powder out of the tube onto the wax paper. Then I'll take the clip off the wax paper and take the weights out and carefully take the paper out and fold it so I can dump the powder back in the jar, I can reclaim about 90% of my powder like that. Once I do that I put the wax paper back and move onto the next color. It doesn't take long as I've been spraying since 2005 so I have it down pretty well but you can never learn it all. Lamar, you can do a colored pearl, use it to make like a blue glimmer or purple glimmer, you spray the bait pearl white and then turn the air pressure up just a bit and then hold the bait a little further away, you pulse a little candy blue or candy purple on the pearl bait and it will just mist a tiny bit of the candy powder onto the pearl, some real good stuff you can do with it. Great job on spraying now you'll have some fun for sure, keep up the nice work!!!!!
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One question, how do you keep all the jig bodies warm? Do you heat them one at a time and then paint one color, then heat the second one and paint one color or do you finish each jig head before doing the next? I don't think you could heat six jigs and do them without them cooling?
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Oh man, you are really going to like the spaying method Lamar and it looks like you have a good feel for it already. I spray my powder right out of 2oz jars, in fact I buy my powder by the pound except for specialty colors and I put the pain in the small jars and then use them. HJere is the thing, I don't screw the gun onto the jar, it wouldn't fit if I tried but I hold the jar by using my ring finger and pinky to hold the jar against my palm and then I stick the tube in and hold the gun with my middle finger wrapped around the base and my thumb pushing it into my hand while I use my index finger to press the button, I'll make a video sometime on how I do it. If I'm doing say 10 baits and there are 5 or one pattern and five of another I'll lay a large sheet of wax paper in my old boot box, on the bottom I have plain jig heads holding it down and against the back of the box I have a clip I made from a big staple. Now say the baits all have white bellies, I'll do all of the white bellies first, then I put my jar of white down and them in the box I'll put my finger over the nozzle of the gun and press the button and it will blow the remaining powder out of the tube onto the wax paper. Then I'll take the clip off the wax paper and take the weights out and carefully take the paper out and fold it so I can dump the powder back in the jar, I can reclaim about 90% of my powder like that. Once I do that I put the wax paper back and move onto the next color. It doesn't take long as I've been spraying since 2005 so I have it down pretty well but you can never learn it all. Lamar, you can do a colored pearl, use it to make like a blue glimmer or purple glimmer, you spray the bait pearl white and then turn the air pressure up just a bit and then hold the bait a little further away, you pulse a little candy blue or candy purple on the pearl bait and it will just mist a tiny bit of the candy powder onto the pearl, some real good stuff you can do with it. Great job on spraying now you'll have some fun for sure, keep up the nice work!!!!!
Thanks. I'm slowly learning. You inspired me to do this with the lures you make. Thanks for sharing all you do.