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Mark, gravity fed is the way to go in your opinion then? As for the kit, would you buy that kit at all or would you go for a better brand? The bottom feed will be good for me to learn a little on and let the kids try to learn on. Then i can move to the better ones or I will just use the gravity feed and the kids can learn with the other. Is there a kit you would recommend higher than the one I posted for under $200? I really doubt i will paint more than 500 anything inn a year so a $1000 kit would be a waste even if the kids get into painting a few shirts here and there, and me too.

I have done about as much as I can researching what to get and why. Now I need to what brand covers what I want to do. I will do a little of everything with the airbrush but I will mostly paint plugs, blades and jig heads. Something that will, hmm, not easy to use but can be used with ease if that makes sense. I am not afraid of a learning curve but I don;t want o hassle with it if that clears things up. Versatile and reliable with steady air pressure for the compressor. Quite is a good thing but reliably not overheating and long lasting. I found this kits and thought it was a good base point to start for everyone to say it is too much, good enough or simply junk http://www.tcpglobal.com/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=ABD+KIT-SP7-20 Am I on the right track with this kit or am I looking at upgrading before I can get the fine detail I want to get for plugs and spinner blades? Price range will be somewhere from $100-$200 for a complete kit with compressor and airbrush. Don't care if it comes with paint or not.

Too complicated for me yet, lots to learn and lots of experiments to try.

I got a very nice rooster from my cousin with long thin neck feathers, good tail and wing feathers and chest feathers great for other stuff. I will try to find out what breed it was. They get all of their chickens from farm auctions for $0.25-$3 each for live birds.

Doing multiple colors at once may be something I will look into down the road. Melting 3 colors at once and sucking them up into one injector than shooting the mold would make some really cool color combinations for sure. I am probably trying to do something that is not gonna work but you never know if you don't ask. That cluster mold has 6 eggs in it and making it so that each opposing egg is the same color just sounds like a winning combination. Isn't gonna hurt to try.

Well the eggs are 1/4 inch in the cluster mold. Looks like 1/4-1/6 of them will contact the injected plastic if I was to put in whole eggs. Maybe cutting them down and making them smaller, maybe even in half, will help the cooled down eggs stick and stay to the new injections? May be a try it and see. I really want 3 colors in the eggs, the combination of my 3 colors have been deadly in chenille jigs and flies so I figure the same color combo could work in an egg cluster.

I realize this is likely been addressed here more than once but I can not find a topic on it so I have to ask. I just started injection molding baits. Is a lot easier than I thought it would be but I always think things will be more complicated. I plan to get a sampler salmon egg mold from basstackle but I wanted to ask a question before I do. I want to pour individual eggs and then put different colors in the cluster mold and inject the final color. I am pretty sure it is possible to get the Plastisol to inject past the parts in the mold. The big question is will the new stick to the old? I don't want to glue them together on an individual basis. I figure I would start with bigger molds and baits before moving on to multi color eggs on the ends of the skirts basstackle has. Am I wasting my time trying to get them to stick or will it works that way? http://www.basstackl...ctCode=401-1-49 That is the mold if it helps. I would pour all the eggs and then cut the different colors out and put them in the top cluster mold to inject the final color. One of thing, what is the best way to block off one part of the mold if I don't want to pour that part every time?

Nice topic! I love the creative way to get things done easier and better. Now I have a way to cut my bodies to make some salmon poppers without getting cramps before I get 3 cut.

I am looking for a round head plain mold of any weight and size that will take the following hooks: Matzuo Heavy jig hooks VMC Barbarian hooks Mustad 32833 (I know of the steelhead round head jig mold for this one, need others and other sizes) All in sizes from 4 -5/0 with 1-3/0 being my preferred range. If the DO-it steelhead mold will take larger hooks than are listed please let me know There has to be at least a couple molds that will use these hooks.