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Adding Glitter To Envirotek Lite Top Coat

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Any glitter that worked for you with D2T should work with E tex, since they both have the same solvent. 

If you are turning your coated baits you may find the glitter migrates to the outer face.  I would do a test with an old bait to see how it works.

I always put two coats on when I used E tex, so you might be able to use it in the first coat, and then have the second coat smooth it out again.

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I shoot a clear waterbase polyurethane on the lure. While it is still wet, I sprinkle on the flake. Let the polyurethane dry and you can clear coat with your favorite epoxy. The dried polyurethane holds the glitter in place and leaves a smooth finish with epoxy. Also with the waterbase, if you dont like the way the glitter looks you can wipe it off (while its wet) and try again.

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Do you find that you have "heavy" spots of glitter when you sprinkle it on. The one thing I like when adding it to epoxy is that it is mixed into the epoxy and is dispursed randomly but yet not spotty if that makes sense. I would think that sprinkling it would increase the risk of heavy spots.

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If you hold the lure about a foot away when you sprinkle you won't have the problem of spots. Let the flake slowly float down and it spreads pretty even. Like I said before, if you don't like the way the flake looks, wipe it off and fix it. Also, mixing it with the clear coat will only work if you are flaking the whole lure. What if you just want it on the belly or sides. I guess you would have to mix clear with flake and without. You won't get a smooth finish with flake in the clear coat. Some will rise up and stick out of the clear.

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I think some of this depends on the size of the glitter you are using.  I use 'medium' sized glitter that is too large to pass through an airbrush, so I buy glitter that is suspended in a water based acrylic medium, cheap at your local craft store.  I thin it with a little water and simply brush it on areas of the lure where I want it, in the amounts I want.  The brush makes the glitter lay down so no problems with glitter sticking up in the clearcoat.  

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You can also add glitter/flake to clear nail polish, and brush it onto wherever you want it.  Just be sure to shake it well to keep the flake in suspension.

It dries quickly, and you can epoxy over it afterwards.

And you have no waste.

I keep a bottle with red flake, and another with blue flake, on my workbench, and use it to add flake to jig heads.

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I tried this over wet Plasti Dip & the learning curve on free falling flakes was a little harder than expected. I didnt watch how much was pouring out of the shaker when I tapped it. But a mistake like that turns to new discoveries.

 

The glitter containers I use have 3 holes in the top and I taped over all but 1 of them. That slows the amount of glitter coming out of the container. Something else that will help is to shake out a bit of glitter onto a piece of white paper before putting it on the bait. This will give you an idea as to what angle you need to hold the container and how hard you need to shake it. By doing this over a piece of clean paper you can recover any glitter that doesn't go on the bait.

 

Ben

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