chartreuse pepper

[Thomas3393]

does anyone have a color formula for chartreuse pepper ?

[ctom]

Welcome to the Do-It madhouse.

Plain old chartreuse with black flake. Your can thin out the chartreuse to make it more transparent if the original batch is too opaque.

You don't mention a brand name for the colorant and each is different from the other so mixing and batching are all different too. Bait size will determine the flake size. Frogs and larger [over 3"] swim and jerk baits tolerate a .040 flake or even slightly larger, well. .015 is probably preferable in baits smaller than 2", especially if legs and feelers exist. Larger flake can block cavities in small molds.

Some of this a person has to play with first hand to see what is preferred for flake size. Sometimes a small bit of pearl powder gets added to the transparent chartreuse to tone down the transparency. Some others might use the tip of a toothpick dipped in pure white colorant and stirred into the chartreuse as a toner. Some may even use a mix of smaller and larger flake sizes. The sky's the limit with this.

Again...welcome, enjoy your time here. There's only one person here that you need to watch out for and since Denny retired and started his Geritol diet he's been pretty busy elsewhere. 

[Thomas3393]

thank you for the welcoming, the lure colorant that im going to us is do-its x2, the chartreuse pepper that im trying to mach is zooms 

[Denny Welch]

Again...welcome, enjoy your time here. There's only one person here that you need to watch out for and since Denny retired and started his Geritol diet he's been pretty busy elsewhere.

Welcome, Thomas. 

Other than how to tell red from blue, don't pay too much attention to Ctom.  He has a tendency to ramble.  We're unsure if it's Alzheimer's or dementia.  Either way, it's not good.  We just let him prittle prattle around the board and so long as he doesn't hurt anyone we're OK with it.  Go back and read some of his stuff and you'll get a sense of what I'm talking about.  The truth will set you free.

Again, welcome.

[ctom]

I just went to the Zoom color plate to see what you're wanting. My monitor shows the chartreuse as being very slightly greener than what straight X2 chartreuse will give you. If you are doing a 4 ounce batch, I'd add maybe 5 drops of the X2, cook it until it has reached 350 and then I'd dip a toothpick maybe 1/8" into straight green, knocking off the excess on the inside of the bottle neck and stir this into the hot chartreuse. A green chartreuse would probably be better as the mixing agent....all you want to do is pull that strong chartreuse down a little with the green. It will take very little to do this. Once you get the color dialed, add .015 black flake. Add sparingly stirring after each addition.   

[Slow Burn]

Also to make sure the color is what you want, put a dab of the plastic on the back of a mold. This will generally show you what the color will like before you shoot. That way you won't shoot then realize it's not what you wanted. Then again, fish hit the mistake colors as well. Hope this helps.

If you have any floro green or lime, maybe add a drop of that to the mix to tune it in and get your color.

[ctom]

Slow's thoughts on using the mold's back to judge color is great. I use the sprue runner and fill it on one side of the mold since it will hold more plastic and at best only part of the finished baits thickness will be done by pouring in a cavity or on the mold back. Either way its a great way to judge the color's value.

[Wallyc14]

For zooms chart pepper I use lure craft yellow chart ,about 20 drops to 4 oz plastic , add black flake lightly though you can go overboard quick , then I add a tsp of salt to make it opaque or you could add white , this should get you close. The black flake makes the chart. turn greener