HuntNnut

I now have a Premier and it is the sweetest reel I have ever used. There is a shop in town that has them for $159 with a $20 off mail in coupon. The guy told me that they are coming out with a new model next year and are getting rid of this years model. He also told me that the only difference with be cosmetic.

I love the Revo's. Don't have a Premier, just a couple of SX's and 2 STX's. Two of the reels I have gotten off of eBay and never had a problem with either of them. With that said, I just looked up some Premiers on there that were less than $200 new with free shipping. How firm is your price, I might be interested.

My two hobbies are fishing and hunting and anything that is associated with the two. I just got into making some jigs this summer, but I have been making custom friction turkey calls for the last seven years. I have found the calls are lot more time consuming and there are a lot more options when it comes to making them.

I'm completely new to jig painting, but I have found a few things out. Black paint seems to take less heat than watermellon and blue? My 1/2 poisontail jig heads take about an 8 count with black and 12 or so with the other two colors.

Thanks for the info. Didn't think about holding the jig by the eye and dipping them that way. When you do it this way, how do you keep from painting the hook also? I like the idea of the high temp tape also. Thanks again.

Hello all. I just found TU several weeks ago and decided to join up and see what was going on. It is a great site loaded with tons of information. I have used the search function and looked through several upon several pages of post and still have a few questions that I hope someone will be willing to help me with. I've also found the answered to a bunch of questions like using loc-tite epoxy, thinning D2T and even found what D2T stood for. I've been making custom turkey calls for about 7 years now and needed something to do during the off time of that, so I decided to get into making a few jigs. Mainly because I wanted a few skirt color combos that I couldn't find anywhere. So now I have a couple of molds, some skirt layers and all the rest to make some jigs, but along with that came these questions. My buddy and I have been using powder paint. We've gotten the hang of it and they are turning out pretty decent. The problem we are getting is that the hook eyes are covered enough that we can't get it out without chipping the paint pretty bad most of the time. Is there a way around that? I've tried a hot hook, tried taking it out before curing the head, after curing, right after dipping. I can't think of anything else. Would a fluid bed ease this problem? We are using 3-d adhesive eyes. Will the adhesive hold the eyes or do we need to back up the adhesive with something else? I've dipped a few heads in D2T so that I could add some glitter and would think that would hold the eyes. Is it better to dip the jig or brush it on? I have been thinning the D2T with denatured alcohol. The last thing that I can think of is what are the pros and cons of powder paint over vinyle paint? Thanks in advance for any help that someone is willing to give.