Vinyl Paint

[toadfrogbaits]

Is there anyone that uses Vinyl paint to do your jig heads , slabs or any other kind of hard bait. Most of us wind up doing a lot more than plastics alone . If you do ,what do you use as a retarder when air brushing it other than the retarder sold under the brand label . I stopped using this stuff back in the 90's because this stuff is deadly if you breathe it . The guy I'm helping loves the stuff sure does make me wonder why . Know whut I mean LOL . Most folks know I don't actually sell baits . I do special projects . I have cured all the production problems dipping baits . Now I need to work on more economical additives for airbrushing . Thought I'd throw this out just in case .

[ctom]

I use some of the vinyl paints for dotting eyes on some of my larger jigheads and I have some transparent fluorescent colors thinned as a dipping cover coat for some of the powder coated heads I do. I never spray the stuff. Once I hit on the powder paint that vinyl stuff got pushed aside. When I got into making some custom colors that fall under my trademark I began to use it again but only as a top coat over powder and then the work goes in the oven for an hour and a half.

The fumes from spraying along with the dust from over-spray keep me from get too closely akin to the vinyl paints at a spraying level. I have enough headaches just trying to keep all these little bits of stray plastic in check.

[Denny Welch]

I do a fair amount of jig pouring / painting.  Initially, I dipped the jig heads in vinyl paint, but soon discovered that they are not durable.  An hour of fishing in rocks and the jig is toast.  It'll still catch fish, but it's no longer pretty.  I now powder coat all of my jig heads and then bake them to get that lasting finish.  I've owned an airbrush for several years, but it's still in the unopened original box.  Maybe one of these days....

About the only time I use vinyl paint anymore is when I get a wild hair and paint frog designs on the backs of Crockers or "Big Foot" Toads.  (Dip them after painting.)

[toadfrogbaits]

Those are the same things I keep telling this guy . He thinks vinyl is tougher than powder . Even tried to prove it to him . Don't think he ever really banged the lure I sent to see. I sprayed about 300  today . Found that the fumes will pass a government approved  respirator . Still made me dingier than I normally am . Glad I fixed his problems and this gig is over . Found a retarder tile floor wax . Yep nuts ain't it .