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Rich, when I was used to sell my lures, I had a kind of trade agreement with a friend of mine who is the proprietor of a fishing shop; he sold my lures and kept for him a little percentage on the final price. It was not quite fair for me, but it was the fastest way to let my lures be seen and bought by many people. In addiction, maybe ebay remains the most practical method to sell your lures. Geppa

Ok, I'm convinced, I've got to try PVC! Dieter, you're making an impressive work on that pikey swimbait, I'm looking forward to see it finished! Geppa

I've got 3 airbrush with 0.5 mm, 0.3 mm and 0.2 mm needles, but the one I use most is 0.3 mm one: in my opinion is the best thing to shoot almost all colors and to make little details.

Impressive works!

I'll answer you immediately. No problem for the OT.

Thank you! It's a plastic net that here in Italy is generally found as the envelope for onions or chips. Geppa.

I use syringes, but a friend of mine, who is used to get a different one, had the same problem you have, until he understood that the 50/50 part was not to be intended in volume, but in weight. Don't know the resin that you use so I can't be helpful, but almost always syringes or a graduated container help a lot to be more precise!

Thank you for your compliments! Yes, you're right: the wooden bait is the prototype and, if it swims right for me, becomes the master for the mold; this swimbait (and all the other that I keep on making) is made out of resin with glass microbubbles added and the same resin is used for the top coat.

Yes Rich, I let the paint drywith the net on, then I take it away and spray some transparent green or pearl. This is all that I do. What do you mean with "wrap scale process"? I'm sorry, I didn't understand.

Diemai, thank you for your compliments, I do appreciate your opinion. Here in Italy there are silure (silurus glanis), zander (stizostedion lucioperca), pike and a lot of other fishes... Pike lives both in the north of Italy and in the south, but I'm not used to fish it, I just love trout and black bass, in fact this swim has been created for bass, even if some friend of mine uses it for pike. I've seen your plugs and I'd like to know your opinion on this swimbait; would you like to make a plug swap? Thank you so much!

Rich, I'm not used to seal the baits before painting, but sometimes I do it with a a 2-part epoxy; the same one that I use for my molds and for my baits. I use this resin as top coat too, with 2, 3 or 4 coat depending on the teeth of the fish that I would like to catch... Thank you for your appreciation

You've done an impressive work; your swimbaits have got a very nice action. Greetings! Geppa

Thank you!

Hello everyone! After a lot of troubles, I finally found the time to share one of my latest swimbaits; a two-pieces shaped as a carp. I use to carve my plugs by hand with a knife and sand paper, and these are the pictures of the "work in progress", from rough wood to coated resin-made lure. Foiled and ready for the mold, so that the other swimbaits will be the copy of this one: Airbrush painted, epoxy coated and ready to fish; It's slow sinking, 3 oz and 6 inches. It has a nice "S-action" in the water and if twitched, has a side-to-side movement (just like a spook). I'll post a video of the movement, if it stops raining... Greetings, Geppa.