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[rock]

Please see the attached PDF for the tutorial on aluminum mold making.

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[raymayor]

That is an excellent presentation rock and a really nice muskie. Any ideas where I can get my hands on some relatively inexpensive aluminum stock? I am in northern MN. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greg

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[diemai]

@ rock

Great tutorial , thanks a lot !

Being a metal worker , I have made some football jighead molds just the same way , that you have described .

But instead of modelling clay I have utilized beeswax for checking the proceedial of the cavities .

But the trick with the pencil and steelwool is new to me , thanks a lot again !

PS : Nice musky you've got there , that's what all the tinkering is about:yes: !

greetz:yay: , diemai

[rock]

Greg,
I bought my aluminum from Metal Express.

Follow this link:Metal Express - Catalog - Category List - Aluminum

They have a plant close to me in Waukesha, so I was able to go pick up my order. They will ship to you and the price was very reasonable. My blanks were 2" x 6" x 5/8" thick.

Good luck!
Rock

[soggysox]

Machinists sometimes use silly putty to check their mold carving progress.

soggysox.

[dlaery]

soggysox, on 11 January 2012 - 04:50 PM, said:

Machinists sometimes use silly putty to check their mold carving progress.

soggysox.

that's a neat idea. thanks for the tip

[campebass]

Hello from Spain

My name is carlos and I'm from Spain.

Excellent tutorial on how to make an aluminum mold.

But I wanted to know how to adapt jig shad head of 4/0 to 7/0?

Thanks for the reply and greetings