Will Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Has anyone had problems with the "green pumpkin" from Lurecraft? I'm just curious, it seems that no matter whether stabilizer is used on not, it tends to change color no matter how careful you are not to burn the plastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB GONE Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Will: I have several bottles of GP from LC and have not had any problems as of yet. I do know that if I don't add a little nut down in the bottle and shake the crap out of it, the color comes out a little "weak" or light!! Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrs5kprs Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 Shake it a bunch and use way more color than you think you need. That helps with most of the LC colors. Also helps if you heat without color, then color the clear plastic...easier to match previous batches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 I learned very early on that when most fishermen say "green pumpkin", they are talking about Zoom's green pumpkin, which looks more brown than green pumpkin to me (?). The only way I've been able to get that shade of green pumpkin is to add brown. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB GONE Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 I found that adding the color prior to heating has helped me reproduce the colors... I'm with Chris on the Zoom Green Pumpkin...I add 2 or 3 drops of brown and 1 drop of black (for 8oz of plastic) along with the green pumpkin. I don't care for the Zoom color that much but the fish like it as good as plain old "green pumpkin" out of the bottle !! jim PS I do use 22-24 drops of LC green pumpkin/8oz of plastic which is more than I use of M-F's...only use about 15 drops of their's.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james bradshaw Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I haven't had any trouble with L. C green pumpkin. The pumpkin color does fade out in the plastic over time though. Has anyone here had the same experience? The biggest problem I had just the other day, was with watermelon brown from M-F. I baught the bigger bottle of w.b and it took almost twice as much colorant ,this time to get the same results, that I had with the last bottles of colorant. I thought that maybe the bottle wasn't mixed enough, so I took an aluminum rod and stirred it up making sure I scraped the bottom of the bottle real good. Threw in two 1/4-20 nuts, shook the crap out of it for ten minutes, and bingo same results as before. It's a little frustrating having to mess around with matching up the colors again, with a new bottle of colorant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charkins Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I haven't had any green pumpkin fade on me (yet). Got a few over a year old. MF does have a consistency problem. I am using 3 times as much watermelon now than I was with the previous batch. I haven't tried lurecraft's watermelon. Anyone else got an opinion on which watermelon? Cal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I like Lure Craft's watermelon much better than MF's. Always had a problem with the MF color fading on me. Almost turns an amber color with high heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtrs5kprs Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Some brown LC or MF brown watermelon will stabilize that LC green P. Heat stabilizer will also help, if you are not using it buy some tomorrow. I used to add LC pumpkin and black to watermelon to try and dupe Zoom w'melon...almost always had a fade issue. Switched to the melon colors from MF with much more happiness and joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Chris, did you get my PM and did you try it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charkins Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 I use at least a ml for eac ounce of plastisol. It keeps the plastic from scorching and the colors from changing. Could be my imagination, but I believe the glitter works better as well. Cal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsworms Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 Chris, did you get my PM and did you try it? Will have to next time I have a minute to mess with it. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
