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Walk the walk, Then talk the talk....put up or shut up, pick any saying you want and insert here.

Lots of people have big dreams but few have the ability or mind set to do it. There is also different paths that can achieve the same end goal. Some also over step their ability and loose it all where the should have played with in their means and they would have still seen a high level of success. This thread seems to lean towards mass overseas production and cheap materials to try and to get in the level of the big players in the tackle industry. If you can pull it off awesome but most would crash and burn trying This is a tough game big risk but big rewards Now that is not the only option of success. Another path I watched play out firsthand never did any of that. They built their company focused on quality and reputation. Pushed hard to build there name through marketing and created a demand for their products through fishermen’s success. The funniest part the tackle was all made in a shop in the backyard by free beer and paying their friends a few $ for their spare time. They have sold their business and bought a very high class fishing lodge now. They do well and have a comfortable relaxed lifestyle overseeing the management of their lodge They may not of become a big player top name in the industry but have built a comfortable life most fishermen would dream of Multiple ways to be successful and different levels of success.

Few different varieties of whiskey out there. Best thing to do would be drop a picture here of what you're shooting for.

You hit the nail squarely on its head ! 10k orders a month is a dream - how fast are you getting paid in full is reality. Do you get your basic costs up front?? You had better have deep,deep pockets to wait 90-120 days for your money and hope they don't go bankrupt or you're gone too! U.S.Patents mean zilch to copiers in China. You can go broke attempting to defend your patent in the U.S.A. too! The lure business is one backstabbing,cutthroat business-especially if the big,established manufacturers want to play hard ball w/ you.There are also the middleman who wants his palms greased for the privilege of opening doors for you .If you own a small,profitable lure company,stick w/ it as your dreams of getting big may destroy you mentally and financially.

In the past I've poured soft plastic swimbaits with weighted hooks embedded. Check out this TW page. Scroll down to the weighted swimbait hooks. https://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Swimbait_Hooks/catpage-TTWHK.html

Ya I would guess an amber and darken to match

i know nothing at this point but based on a basic assumption i would use motor oil color and add tiny amounts of black until you get to that maple syrup color he wants give it a try and see if that gets you close

I remelt em to cubes

1. Nobody on here was the first person to paint a crankbait. Get over yourselves. You started at some point too. 2. You should be glad that custom baits are gaining in popularity because you have more competition on the equipment/supplies side. More competition means more innovation and possibilities. 3. Do you discredit an artist because he didn’t handcraft his canvas? What about a sculptor because he didn’t make his own clay? Where do you draw the line? If I cast my own crankbait blanks, can I call them custom...even though I didn’t invent the resin I used? Bottom line, you’re mad because other people are taking a piece of the pie. Welcome to capitalism. Like skeeter said, be the best and don’t worry about the rest. Row your own boat.

I have made it so thick that pouring was not possible due to thickness. I used a cake injector to pour the mold, achieving a material density of 0.65g/cm3 using polyester resin. Yes, the material was brittle, but certainly usable. Just don't drop the bare body on a tiled floor. I guess it all depends if you are going to be regularly throwing onto rocks, and even then, the velocity is significantly reduced by the trailing line. My point is that dropping from a 2nd story window would be an unrealistic test. Once the epoxy topcoat has been applied, the resistance to shock is improved. Are your numbers by weight or volume? I documented mine by weight, and I can tell you that by volume, the percentage was way higher than 50%. Dave

Technically yes you could. Your problem is going to be getting the wall thickness thin enough to even get the lure to float, let alone support any ballast. On CAD, I have given my 3" prototype a 2mm wall thickness, and it can only carry 6g of ballast for a 28g (1oz) lure. Molding will not be an issue, but you will have to create a master for both halves which could present an issue of symmetry. Dave

They are plastisol. Glued in place. Very lively.

Love this guys just got into the soft plastics game about a year ago had a older friend hand down a bunch of stuff too me most of it was great some was just older molds that don’t sell well and I have a ton of Del Mar hand pours I wish I would of came across a list like this I’ve been digging and looking and I get most of my new molds from baitjunkys there super quick I order 3 days the mold is at my door but bobs is a great co too along with Lurecraft there all good it’s just baitjunkys really stood out to me thanks I will check out all the company’s I’ve never seen before

High rock is gone now tried for a week to locate them and there closed

Hey guys I live in Huntingdon five mins from raystown Kind of a rookie when it comes to stripper fishin due too I hate trolling but the lure you speak of is legendary you drill and put lead in it too keep it down and wow you need salt gear the way the smallys and strippers hammer that bad boy I know it’s been a few years since this post was up but I’ve been looking for them they are very hard to find it don’t really even matter the color or size truly it’s just the way they roll in the water is great tight lines guys

Where did you buy the vulcanized blank? Seems like it has potential. I've been using high temp silicon to make 2 part molds for the last couple years. Works well, but they don't always last.

Bob do you remember a jig company call ProPoint Jigs that was made in Winston Salem back in the late 80's early 90's? He was selling to WalMart in W.S. They ended up putting the guy out of business due to wanting more and paying less for the jigs.Even if I ever decided to go that route Walmart would never b on I would sell to. When I had my tackle shop in the late 90's I couldn't even compete with the prices that Walmart was selling the same stuff as me.

10,000 units a month is a good problem to have, but not an easy problem to deal with unless you are prepared for it. A stellar business plan is a must. Without one, you will fail! It doesn’t have to be 50 pages. A 1 pager will work, if enough thought is put into it. Capital and common sense are usually the biggest problems. Producing 10K units is not cheap. You have components, labor, (your time is not free), packaging, equipment maintenance, insurance, EDI costs, shipping, payroll/accounting, taxes, marketing, legal and others that I have missed. The best part is, big box stores are usually net 60 or 90. Ya, you don’t get paid for 2 or 3 months. In the beginning budgeting/timing is very important. Your good suppliers are your best friends and single points of failure are your worst. Sorry for the short synopsis

Dave Your in Indonesia and I am in the USA big difference in labor cost. Wayne

Like Bob said, making baits for sale is a really hard hustle, and I wouldn't want to invest my time and money in learning the large scale ropes. If I had a firm order for 10,000 a month from Walmart, I would approach several large commercial bait makers, and see if they would buy me out. I would keep my ability to make that bait for myself only, or as gifts to friends.

I grew up in a small business family. As an adult, I chose a different career, mostly because of the hard business lessons I learned at my Dad’s knee. Some guys are interested in building baits as a business. Some of them can build great baits consistently in single or small batches. But very few are able to scale up their production, keep the quality as good as it was as a hobby, and most importantly, run the operation as a profitable business. And if they manage to do it, many find that being an 80 hour a week slave to production schedules and dealing with feckless suppliers and irrational customers is not the dream they envisioned. If you can cheerfully do that, I salute your guts and initiative and wish you the best of luck.

You will end up in China doing business with them. Wayne

I have sold lures and flies on a small word of mouth level for a long time to small tackle shops or guides. My hard baits have been kept amongst friends and family. I have debated on stepping it up a little but never put much thought into mass production Presently I don’t have a plan for mass production but I have business experience and some interesting friends to call on if I find myself on that path Right now I am more focused on perfecting a few designs