jthod

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Not too much to update, I haven't had much time to work on it lately. Carving is done. I'm kind of debating on filling the partial cut that I made with clay to make the initial mold. That, or if the joint that I have made format work on the first casting, fill in and try again.

kind of wishing I would have carved solid, rather than have the joint most of the way cut, in case the joint is entirely wrong. BUT, OCD me cut the joint on the solid block, before making any other cuts of shaping the bait because I wanted that cut to be symmetrical and precise. I suppose if it came to that, I could fill in the parting line, and re-cast.

Yeah, that's kind of my thinking of molding the wood master that I have right now.

Other than just making another mold of the tested bait. Joint angles, hardware added, any other adjustments made would be in the second mold. But, if the joint location is bad on what I have now, I can fill in the joint, re-cast, and cut a new joint.

I've carved this shade glide bait from basswood. I have not parted the two halves, or added hardware obviously. I have had some suggestions to mold this as a master before I go any further, as is adding ballast holes, wire form rings, reliefs for fins, etc... I've also seem a lot done that the original wooden prototype was swim tested, and then molded. For what it costs to make a mold (or more than one mold with the first option), it seems as though it would be best to swim test, and THEN make a mold of the semi-complete prototype. I've got a mold box built and ready to begin molding the modeling clay inside, but I was reluctant to go any further. Opinions?

PERFECT!!!! Thanks you so much for this write up. I've been using the standard wire forms, and even after adding tin and upping the head to help with retention, I was having issues with them falling out. I absolutely hammered the Hybrid Bass (wiper) this weekend on them, along with walleye, white bass, largemouth, and a couple SLAB crappie. I've been running the 1/2oz with a Pearl White Zoom Fluke.