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  1. I wasn't saying don't buy from Barlow's, by the way. Just that they are selling someone else's plastic. They aren't a plastic maker.
  2. I was just getting ready to test a new custom mold for a customer. While I was doing so I looked through all my sample bottles from Bait Plastics. (I bought two of their sampler pack) There does not appear to be a super soft formula or a sinking formula, so if I were to pick them for my Club-Os for this season I would certainly have up my salt content and add softner. Hopefully my order from MF arrives soon, so I can test their soft sinking in the Easy Stretch formula.
  3. Not yet. I'm experimenting. I always made my Club-Os with MF Soft Sinking 4:1 salt ratio. Sink rate was perfect, and only very slightly stiffer than Senkos(tm). My goal was the easiest possible formula work to fish ratio. I've got big fish checks, place and win money, and a few hundred+ fish days with them, so I figured it was good enough. Now it seems to be gone except for a gallon or two in my big jug, and I am looking for a new easy formula. When I make Club-Os I make a lot, so I don't run out to quickly. I did order some softner, but I hope to find a mix that is "good enough" without it like my old mix is.
  4. MF has a soft sinking available in the Easy Stretch line. I just ordered some to play with since the original soft sinking seems to be no more. I was going to order some Bounce, but I didn't see it available. I don't know what the heck Jeff is doing, but at least he is partially open for orders of some stuff. Barlows will just be buying from somebody else. I'd look at Bait Plastics if Jeff doesn't have what you want at MF right now. I've heard some of their plastics can have a slightly cloudy finish, but so far of the test samples I ordered I have not noticed it, and they have a bunch of options. I haven't run all the formulas yet, but I did buy their sampler that comes with a little of every one. PS. Hey Jeff! Where is that garlic bomb you threatened me with?
  5. I forget who it was, but there used to be a de-facto expert here years ago who had put together a list of crazy dipping techniques that worked. I think he published a CD or something like that on it. I'm not crazy about dipping at all myself. Its just to slow for me. If I want tubes I make a mold with an insert and I inject them. I do slice, but that's still faster than dipping.
  6. That is so weird. I'm not sure what is happening, but its doesn't sound like tempering. Various heat treating terms get thrown around all the time, and their slight misuse misunderstanding makes it hard to have a conversation sometimes. Tempering is used as defined above, to reduce the hardness of a metal that has been hardened. Why your hook appears to be getting harder from some sort of heat cycle is a weird one. Many alloys at maximum hardness can shatter almost like glass. By making them less hard through "tempering" they become tougher... or less likely to break or shatter.
  7. Spring in green water light watermelon, later in the summer opaque green pumpkin, around other cover blue craw or even red orange. A lot of people just compromise. I throw opaque watermelon seed or opaque watermelon red flake pretty much all the time if I think I am imitating craws.
  8. One of the old school hollow swimbait techniques (kinda like a BassTrix) was to use a butter knife with the light serrations ground off and the edge rounded over. If they wanted a conventional looking tail they just cut it that way. If they wanted a paddle tail they would split a Colorado blade part way and solder or braze it to the knife. One of the parts suppliers even started selling dipping blades with the tail blade already attached.
  9. Am I the only one who thinks that sounds like a cut paste from an AI chat response bot?
  10. Interesting head design. What do you perceive as the benefit of the downward protrusion?
  11. I found that with stick worms you need to use soft sinking, or super soft and add a lot of salt until you get the sink rate you want.
  12. I'm glad it helped. So many problems are caused or qualities degraded (*) by shooting some plastics to hot that often people dismiss going a little hotter as a potential solution to other problems. * (Denting, scorching, colors drift, drawing air hollows, toughness with hard plastics, etc etc)
  13. What are you talking about? I'm not picturing a round spacer. I've made a few A-Rig head molds and I just don't see it. There are lots of things that work as crimpers for various things. One of the personal things (not tackle related) I make for myself is crimped with a bow string nock crimper. I crimp air hose with ear clamps and a tool that looks like a tile nipper. If I knew what you are talking about I'd try to figure out something.
  14. I seem to recall their being some issues with International shipping of colorants. I think it was one of the things that caused changes in who could and could not buy and resell certain colorants from some companies. It could also have just been an excuse to stop working with intermediate resellers. There was some bruhaha about it here many years ago.
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