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Spotted Bass Killer


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Now tell me how to clear coat it....


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Another nice trout pattern :yes:!

Obviously this is a plastic lure , so no thorough coating(inside the hinges) neccessary .

To paint and coat jointed lures I have made myself a jig consisting of a narrow rectangular wood dowel piece and two large longshaft open eyescrews(the kind to hang heavier things on the wall) .

The eyescrews are mounted on either end of the dowel , the openings facing toward the ends of it .

I'd now take a wire double hook and attach the lure to one eyescrew with its linetie .

For the rear hookeye I'd take a piece of thin , rigid cord(for kite flying), poke it through the eye and close the cord loop with two knots .

The cord loop should just fit over open eye on the dowel , then I take a piece of rigid wire , put it through the cords loop and twist it up to get the lures sections under highest possible tension between the two open eyescrews , now I'd bend the wire in a way to engage into the eyescrew under the tension to prevent the cord from untwisting .

This way you have attained the best possible space between the sections of the lure for a smaller brush to pass into .

Though you should avoid putting clearcoat on the hinges , otherwise they would inavoidably bind :(.

Since it's not a wood lure , it won't be neccessary to clearcoat in there , anyway .

The wood dowel has to be narrow(more higher than wide) , to have free access to paint the belly/back, depending how you rig the lure into that jig .

To keep it from falling aside , I fix one or two carpenter's clamps crosswise onto the dowel ;).

I don't utilize a lure rotator , since my topcoats cure rather fast , otherwise you'd have to think about a way to fix that dowel with the lure attached into a rotator .

good luck :yay:, diemai

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Beautiful paint job. The spots should love that lure.

I've wondered the same thing when I've seen some of the Magic Swimmer repaints here.

Since I use a turner with opposing wood discs mounted on a rotisserie spit, which allows me to suspend the lure between the two discs, I could coat them with Nu Lustre 55 or Etex epoxy very carefully to avoid the hinges.

That's how I coat my finished jointed lures, after I've coated the insides of the joints with D2T while they're still apart.

Let us know how you finally solve this problem.

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Beautiful job! I had a hard time clear coating a sebile (it's posted a couple down from yours) and am looking for some tips as well. The biggest lesson I learned from the first one is take your time. I think I rushed mine, and got a little sloppy. Plus, I think the brush I use to clear coat is a little too thick to get into the jointed sections cleanly. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

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