Bassin Dude 365

So true. I take a hook put it in the mold and pour, paint, skirt with tabs, all my own baits. Way more custom than a guy who buys 100 pre poured, painted heads and slaps an Ez-skirt on there and calls it "custom". Then talks about how its made around blah blah hook and powder coated with armor proof paint blah blah...game changer etc.

Thanks Again to all of you! You know, now that I think about it, I don't give the heads time to cool down before I cut the sprue off. I do grab the poured jig by the sprue when de molding. But, I can see how the way I take the sprue off combined with the fact that I'm not letting the heads cool down causes the separation of hook and head. I do have gate shears but I never use them because I couldn't get that flush cut that Apdriver was talking about. I will check out Roto metals, and will look at the better gate shears.

Cadman, another person who has unknowingly helped me out in many ways over the years! I learned the tap brush method from you plus other things. Anyhow, I use needle nose to gently rock the sprue back and forth until it breaks. I grab the jig by the hook and hold the sprue with the pliers. I usually have a knob so to speak that needs to be filed down. When I file that down I'm noticing the grooves in the head that weren't there when I did that in the past.

Smalljaw thank you very much. I have learned so much from you on here over the years.

Hello to you all here at TU! LONG time lurker but I finally need some help with my lead pouring. I have been noticing that on the jigs, spinnerbaits, etc, that I have been pouring, the jigheads are loose so to speak. I can grab the head and twist and there is wobbling going on. I notice it mostly on heads that have been fished but my spinnerbaits definitely have that problem when brand new. I only pour for me and close friends but I don't want to gift junk tackle to people. I am using lead that was given to me in a big sheet. I melted it all down, fluxed, and made ingots. I feel like the lead may be too soft? The old lead I had, I never had this issue. I also noticed when cleaning up the heads after removing the sprue that they were real rough looking with deeper grooves than I ever remember seeing when I would take the file to the heads I was pouring with the previous lead. Thanks in advance to those who take the time to help! That's what makes this site so cool!