crappie cores

[ctom]

This morning I tried my hand at a core color in a mold way smaller than what I have been using in the Ring-It and the Thump-It molds. This one is a crappie sized paddletail [1.75"] and doing the cores using the drops of color on a half mold hand pour just seemed  impractical they way the color will run, but I found another dot maker and give it a whirl today. Didn't turn out too bad really.

 

All of the plastic and colors and glitters are Do-It's line-up. The base color is a simple clear with silver, blue, red and green glitter. There is a hint of the uv enhancer in there too. The plastic was actually a re-melt from a project and had only the silver glitter and uv in it. The other colors went in as the plastic warmed enough to stir. The line colorants are x2 colors, florida grape and fl. orange, both straight from the bottle.

The purple was well-behaved but the orange wanted to run out ahead of the incoming plastic a little. I had to wipe the tails clean of it even though the drop amount was really small. The orange was much thinner than the grape.

The other day fish wanted these paddletails and if they show a tendencytowards them again I plan to lay these two colors in front of them.

[Apdriver]

Ctom, what mold is that? Looks like a plastic that would see some action.

[ctom]

You have a pm

[DF]

 Those are nice ctom, do you use that florida grape much?

[ctom]

DF....I actually blend X2 purple with X2 Florida Grape in equal parts to make my standard "purple" now. I twist the color by adding either red, or blue or purple glitters to it. Sometimes I'll add violet hi lites to the blend, other times I add blue hi lite to it. Florida Grape is a super good color and I don't think anyone should be without it.

By adding a drop of the Florida Grape to a thin smoke along with some green glitter you'll get an uncanny junebug.

[DF]

Thank you ctom, I normally mix x2 purple and x2 midnight blue for my purple, this gets me real close to what I want, but it seems to be missing something. I will have to give Florida grape a try.