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I think I have seen Youtube vids where someone tinted the Flex products with soft plastic colorants. I'm going to attempt to make a smoke colored tail soon with this method.

How transparent are you looking for? the stuff i have cures more of a clear/amber color

Here is the color that the stuff I use from smooth on is.

Will do, didn't mean to get off the subject, just sparked an interest if you know what I mean. Thanks Dave

it was good talking with you to Nathan. I was trying to be a good boy.... lol it's all good, I deserved it and hopefully we can move forward.

RPM - marvelous feedback. Half the time I was thinking, 'is anyone reading this stuff'. Message to anyone; always give feedback, positive or negative, on ideas that you test. This way, the author does not think that he/she is wasting their time, and also lets other members know whether the idea is confirmed or denied. Dave

I spent some time on the lure lovers site and there was a thread similar to this but with a wrinkle, the sentiment was that unless the lure was "hand" built , no machines, then it wasn't actually hand built or custom, I am quite certain many could learn from your experience with building cranks. I spend many hours a week building and making baits, cranks are relatively the newest to my bench and I have learned a lot from the folks on here but I still have a ways to go...those Japanese fellas have the bar raised pretty high and that is my goal...number 1 bit of advice I ever received on here was by BOBP, DON'T GET IN A HURRY....

I am talking about these type of injected blanks. Anything from crankbaits and jerkbaits to topwater poppers is what I would like to learn how to apply the foil to. I have had only moderate success using the glue.

Will that material take color or stain?

Your weight transfer rattling 2.5 square bills are the best!

Nope, just being creative. Plan on using the large sizes for slow fall paddletails and creatures. The small size in bright silver attached to #2 gold aberdeen hooks with a mono bait keeper for crappie. Like the concept?

Hi, I definitely can not answer you. I buy this varnish in Finland. We all use it. I ordered them UV varnish.

I don't really count at this point, since I'm rather dormant as a lure-builder at this moment (no workshop! I miss building...), but hopefully within the next six months or so I'll be able to get back to my old lure-building ways. I was a PVC fan-boy; loved using that stuff (funny thing, PVC dust smells better and better the more you inhale...) because I was impatient and didn't like waiting for wood sealer to cure. Or dealing with woodgrain. I think a lot of the really good builders kinda stopped coming online quite as much as the market and forums began to be saturated with knockoff lure blanks that anyone could paint and market as "custom". The skills required to build a lure from scratch are less in demand since a lot of guys, IMHO, are lazy and don't want to bother learning to build from scratch and would rather just paint something someone else made (more so in the US than overseas). Many of those who enjoyed sharing their years of knowledge and skills began to find that there weren't a whole lot of people out there who wanted to learn. So, less time online from the veterans. That's my read on it, anyway. Perhaps I'm mistaken, or perhaps things have changed again in the last few years while I've been absent from the online lure-building community. I do know that there at the end, right before I got burnt out, most of the guys who would ask for help were asking primarily about painting rather than building. Hence the deductions above. Anywhoozle. Cheers, y'all! Been a while.

Thanks for the reply and for the tutorial video. I'll be doing some spoons that way. I'll still have to use the glue on the rounder items.

Simple Green........... soak over night and your air brush will look like new. or are u looking for a container?