baby 'bow

[ctom]

I fiddled around with some stuff today and came up with this combination that I'll call Baby 'Bow.

The bottom color is complicated but I'll explain it.

3/4 cup plastic, CCM soft
12 drops of stabilizer
70 drops of CCM transparent hot pink
1/8 tsp garnet glitter
1/8

• tsp red hilite powder

Using roughly 1/2 of the above batch, I amended it to include:

6 drops of LC transparent red
6 drops of CCM bright red

Top color is:

4oz plastic, CCM soft
10 drops stabilizer
20 drops bears turqoise blue
1/8 tsp Canada Blue CCM glitter
1/8 tsp turqoise hi lite powder

The bottom portion of the mold was hand poured, taking care to keep the tail section open for injecting. The mold was closed and the top color injected at 365 degrees and a 10 second hold with pressure kept on the injector handle after the rod stopped. Absolutely no cold joints doing it this way. The trimming was done, eyes added and then a pic was tried out in the sun. Tried. Weird things happened to the colors in the sun. Sooooo, I did a shot in the house in front of a well lit window and this is what I came away with....






 

[kipbass]

Looks good to me!

[BareKnuckleJigs]

MAN!  Yawl do NOT have to worry about me being any competition.  Yawl are on top of the game!

[ctom]

Ma wanted me out of her way this afternoon so I sat at the work table with a pile of colors and hi-lites and glitter trying to think of something. I finally dug out a couple of colors of Jason's smoke-pearl colors: blue and purple. I complimented 4 ounces of plastic with the blue, blue hi lites and blue glitter and then did the same with the purple. Wowser, did this kick out some fun looking critters. I just got the eyes dipped and as soon as everybody dries off I'll try a pic using artificial lighting. With just the work light on these guys they are crazy. I really want to see what they'll do in natural light but that ain't happen'in here today. Maybe tomorrow. I might be able to put up a pic tonight.

I have to quit discovering things to do that make pretty colors. This could get ridiculous expensive. I am going to try both of these smoke colors under black just to see what they look like. I might just whip up some dark smoke and do both of them under that just for giggles.

[BareKnuckleJigs]

Roger on ALL that, Mr. Tom!  I have 2 colors for the "Leeches" that I'll be shooting when I get home Thursday.  Both are Near-Black, Dark Smoke.  Both are just ideas right now, in my head and in my book, but are geared towards the Natural Black of Leeches, with a little "Noticeability" and variation.

Custom Tackle is the only way to fly!  Have Fun, Bro!!!  Post when Ya can!

[ctom]

Here ya go BKJ. These didn't picture as nice as they really are. The two on the left are smoke backed baits and the belly color just melts right into the smoke of the back. The two on the right are the solid color made with blue and purple smoke colorants and the same hi lites and glitters.



The ones with the smoke backs are something to look at in light. One second they are darned near invisible and at the turn of an eye they are just plain hot.

The smoke colorants are Jason's as is the plastic and glitter. LC is where the hi lites came from. This is the small fry bait in 1.75". I stirred the colorants to get everything incorporated well. All I used in the plastic was what colorant stayed on the stir stick. Then I touched the mix up with hi lites and glitter, making a couple adjustment to the latter two until I liked what I saw when some plastic was dropped on my white palate.

Again, the pic hardly does the justice these two deserve. I'm really getting challenged here with the pics.   

[pjmcla]

Another group of nice baits.  What size are the eyes on the pale pink and blue baits?

[ctom]

pj....those are 4mm.

[Jason]

Awesome baits.  It's amazing how the smoke back makes it look totally different.

Great job Tom!

Jason

[firetiger]

Nice colors!

[ctom]

Awesome baits.  It's amazing how the smoke back makes it look totally different.

Great job Tom!

Jason

I wish I could capture what I see and not what the camera wants to focus on. These are almost clear at one angle with just a hint of a darker top side. Move the plastic just a hair and they look entirely different.

On another note Jason. That smoke/pearl colorant is fun stuff. Potent when fully mixed, but that takes some shaking. And some more shaking. Even with a couple stainless nuts in there, more shaking. I start out by stirring it with a piece of 1/4" dowel, then finish it by shaking. These smoke/pearls really create some unusual plastics if a guy isn't right on top of how much he gets into his batch. I have a couple 4 ounce batches that were way over the board but I can dilute them a piece at a time with other colors later on.