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I found a picture of an antique lure from the 1800's. I thought it's a great design and set out to steal it. This is the third version cobbled together from soda can and Capri Sun straw. Decided the weight was moot and removed it. This one stays under and spins! I had found a few more pics by now, and those showed the original sported a tail-not a bare hook. That seems to have made the difference. -
I found a picture of an antique lure from the 1800's. I thought it's a great design and set out to steal it. This is the second version cobbled together from soda can and Capri Sun straw. Trailing weight from first one was shifted to the center. I thought the weight was adversely affecting the spin. Turned out this one also did not spin well, still wanted to plane. -
I found a picture of an antique lure from the 1800's. I thought it's a great design and set out to steal it. This is the first version cobbled together from soda can and Capri Sun straw. Trailing a tail weight for plugs. Did not perform well. It wanted to sort of create lift and plane, rather than spin. -
i'm thinking of making own jigs,chatterbaits,spinnerbaits and buzzbaits out of tin or Aluminum. has anyone had any success trying this? -
I have now completed my Soft Plastic delivery system in 3 styles all concepts and drawings at this point. Thanks for all the help. I'm trying to assemble a working system with parts bait makers have and stuff that can be purchased to keep the cost down. I believe I have a solid idea now. The only thing that I'm not sure of yet is, Does Plastisol, when heated to the proper temperature, pour into a aluminum mold (not injected) right down the center of the hole and fill the cavity to make a bait correctly ? This is one of my 3 designs if it works.
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Hey All. I am making extremely low numbers of lures, only for myself. It started because I wanted to try out Gel-A-Lure to do some of my favorite shapes in some different color combinations. After making some plaster molds, I found out I needed aluminum molds for Gel-A-lure. So basically, I just took my PoP molds out to the garage and reproduced them into aluminum using casting sand. Anyone else doing this? I don't have any experience creating molds with a milling machine or CNC stuff, and basically all I need is my foundry sand, some wooden frames and my little propane fired furnace. I use recycled aluminum, good stuff that I have saved up from having worked in the motorcycle industry. It really is a low cost way of making things, I made almost every component myself, from the furnace, crucible, and the cope and drag mold frames. Anyone else out there CASTING their own aluminum molds? So far I am only making one peice/open face molds. I am about to try some of my own designs, and may progress to 2 peice molds using lost foam in the near future.
