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Awesome! Thanks Smalljaw

I have the Do It Mold Weedless Football Jig - FBW-4-AF Item# Type Collar Cavities Salt Compatible Hook Style 3318 Weedless Football Jig Ring & Barb 4 (1 Each Size) No 570-575 Sizes (oz.) 1/4 3/8 1/2 3/4 Hook Sizes 3/0 or 4/0 Insert FG-12 or FG-12HB What I want to know is there a substitute hook that is better quality than the Eagle Claw Aberdeen? I would prefer a Gamakatsu or Owner, shoot even a Lazer Sharp. Thanks guys.

I work for a worldwide company, Conductix Wampfler. I however am a grunt on the assembly floor who loves to fish and has too many ideas in my head.I I just build the trailing cable reels, motor drive reels, and festoon systems. Unfortunately for me I didn't go to school long enough to get a job in the office. Anyway. In talking to some of the guys at work they tell me I can get something made up on the 3D printer and since I work there at least one guy said cost is cheap usually involving a case of beer or help with something involving labor like cutting down a tree or something. I only found this out Monday while talking to one of the guys.

The design team and engineers use solidworks at my work. We also have a machine shop inside and my father in law knows how to work a CNC. Great info and thanks a lot. I hope that in the next few months I will learn a lot from all of you. One more question for now. Have any of you used a 3D Printer? I guess it takes a drawing and can make a 3D model out of it with plastic. My work has one and I was wondering if any of you have used it and think it's worth it to get some ideas made. You know like prototypes.

cadman, Thanks for this info. This is what I am looking for. I was so worried about ruining a mold that I didn't even think to use wood. Don't worry I would never blame you or anyone else from this site if I screw anything up. It is up to me to interpret the information and ask the right questions. Hopefully I get my buck this bow season soon that way I can really focus on these couple of designs that I have rattling around in my head. Thanks again for taking the time to answer and I hope I didn't offend you with anything I said. One more question. Woods have different properties like hard or soft and some tend to burn at a much higher temps. Do you recommend any that have worked well for you or others you know?

cadman, I work in a shop. I am myself not a machinist and we have an design department but I guess what I am looking for is more of a tutorial on how to take a design and get the weights and hook placement right. No disrespect intended but I realize the work involved and didn't ask what store can I buy a mold from. I asked for assistance on how to go about taking an idea and putting it onto a blank. Like your process or someone elses. Obviously some details would be left out but I am sure that it can be explained in this type of setting without giving any secrets away. The design team we have do more work with sprockets, beams, trolley bodies, motors, limit switches, large cable spools, and other large industry parts. None of them fish and none of them work with small parts that can be intricate in their own way. I figure if I can get a how to transfer idea to design to mold then I can give it to the guys I work with without having wasted money on multiple molds. I am really just looking for help not where to go to buy it and how much can I pay someone. If it comes to that then so be it but with all the members here I figured at least one would have little know how and understanding of where I am coming from.

Awesome that I this is not a dying art! Any info on how to make the soft plastic ultra soft and get it to float or at least be somewhat bouyant? I found the cookbook for colors so just trying to figure out what plastic to buy.

I have been trolling this site for awhile and think that I want to buy one mold and a little plastic, dyes, and whatever else for a small batch of worms. I really want to make a worm that resembles the Roboworm Straight Tail worm. I understand that I can just buy it and wouldn't have the headache of trying and maybe failing but if I like handpouring then I am going to go all in. I would love to learn so any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the link but those are the ones that cost $350 to 1500. I don't have that. That is why I am looking for other solutions.

Has anyone used successfully the Do it Mold blank mold. Do it does not offer a design and create department for the public. I was wondering how some of you took your ideas and machined them into the blank mold? Specifically I want to know how you were accurate in the weights, ie 1/4, 5/16/, 3/8oz and so on. Also, how did you get the hooks and/or wire to lay exactly in the middle of your now machined molds? I researched one company who does this but they want $300-1500 dollars for this. I have access to CNC and lathes(not that I am competent in these) but can one do it themselves effectively without wasting multiple mold to work out the kinks? I am very serious but about this but don't have the money to pay someone else for this work? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I am a very visual person and was wondering if there are any videos or good books on how to pour plastics.

Thanks guys. I will check out the Twistech since it was mention multiple times. I wonder if any of you have tried the Cabela's model. The one that runs about $75.

I actually have that tool. Awesome info thanks guys.

1. Is there a better way to hold the skirt than the tool offered by Jann's Netcraft? 2. When using multiple colors how to make them mix rather than the block look? 3. Has anybody tried creating their own patterns to the point where you use individual strands? How did you hold them so you could place the strands where you wanted them? Thanks

What do you guys think the best tool is for bending wire to make spinnerbaits and buzzbaits? I am really interested in why not just which ones. I have found a few that look good but price ranges are from cheap, the Little Blue Bender, to expensive Hagen's Profesional.