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New Top Water Bait, What Do You Guys Think?
nova replied to Mudd Butt Baits's topic in Soft Plastics
I like the double cup;neat idea. The plastic should be hard as you can make it on the cups. If you use soft it will just roll over on the edges of the cups. I like the way you think. -
All you have to do is add lots of salt.(not table salt)
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I add everything to the cold plastic. That way there is no foul ups.
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Welcome. This is the best place to learn. I assume you are in Canada; but where. I'm in NS.
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How much highlite are you using? You only need a very little bit for an effect.
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Help Locating Stainless Steel Or Hard Plastic Beads.
nova replied to jt_ncbassman's topic in Hard Baits
Take a look in the dollar store. I find lots of useful things there. -
Anybody Know How This Holograph Application Is Done?
nova replied to adambuss1's topic in Hard Baits
Got a feeling it's done with heat using a stamping foil type material. Just a guess. -
If those are the same ones I have, they are water-activated. I plan on photo finishing them.
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I leave them overnight; so it's about the same time frame.
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It all depends on what you are pouring and what's in it. Some guys use water but I don't; especially if the bait has salt in it. I lay my baits out on a stainless steel table that I have. Another material that's good is marble(candy makers use it). I've never used it but I think that porcelin floor tiles might well also.
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Did the motor burn out? You have to make sure that the bowl of the grinder does not have any salt left in it after you finish using it or it will rust the shaft of the motor. I get a year or so out of mine by cleaning the salt out of them after use. The last one I bought was this time last year from Wally World and it's still going.
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It doesn't matter how or where you store your salt; it will attract moisture to one degree or another. I always cook the salt I'm going to use in a pot on my hotplate to completely dry it. The one thing you don't want in your plastic is moisture. This little 5 minute step will take care of any problems that arise from moisture.
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You also have to remember that the fumes will rise up through the house and the family upstairs will smell it. I learned that the hard way;lol.
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I just love to see brains in overdrive. Good simple solutions to a problem. Well done.
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I posted that senario here several years ago. I even included a drawing on how to make it. I don't know if the post still exists(probably not with all the changes over the years). I called it "the book". When I was painting lures in the early 90"s I used that to speed up production. Once you get into a rythem the clean up of your spray gun takes longer than it takes to paint 100 baits.
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No need to buy pricey salt and don't use softner salt because of additives. You want 100% salt. I find that pickling salt is the best bang for the buck.
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You are. Just get yourself a coffee grinder for $15 and you can powder all the salt you want.
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Just looked it up. It's a Pico perch 2 1/2". Circa 1971. He got an award from Sports Afield as one of the top 10 lures in the US. Doesn't give a value but my book was printed in 1999. Hang onto them, someday they will have value.
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What you need is stamping foil. Do a search for that. Mylar won't work well as it is too thick.
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Wow; that's pricey. If I remember corretly I paid $20 (sipping incl.) for 200 feet X 6".
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Got mine on Ebay. 200 foot rolls. Don't remember the guy's handle, sorry.
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It's printed on tissue paper backed with card stock. I have an HP printer. Those are photos of real fish.
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Ben; Your work is very good as well. I haven't had a chance to use the bait you did; but I'm looking forward to it.
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Thanks; but I've been making baits (starting with wire baits to soft and hard) since 1988. You learn a lot by trial and error as well as crusing here on TU. All you need is a curious mind and ambition.
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This is what they can come out like.
