[mike s]

Just joined up, I would like to introduce myself . My name is Mike ,I live in eastern Ontario ,Canada I found this site last week ,it looks amazing ,as a new guy just getting into tackle making I can see I will be visiting here often.I love to fish for anything that will pull on the line, but concentrate mostly on Carp and Crappie ,sort of the big to the small.
I don't think with my limited knowledge I will be handing out advise to oftenbut I will be looking for some Right now I am concentrating on Jig prodution but am looking at getting into making spinner baits in the near future . As a start of question I have been playing at powder coating my jigs and have found that although I clean my eyes when I put them back in the oven to bake on the powder coat, the eyes fill in and are very tough to clean ,how can I avoid this

Thank Mike

[nova]

Welcome Mike, from one Canuck to another. Anything you are interested in can be found with the search feature. That will get you in the right area.

www.novalures.com

[cadman]

Originally Posted by mike s

Just joined up, I would like to introduce myself . My name is Mike ,I live in eastern Ontario ,Canada I found this site last week ,it looks amazing ,as a new guy just getting into tackle making I can see I will be visiting here often.I love to fish for anything that will pull on the line, but concentrate mostly on Carp and Crappie ,sort of the big to the small.
I don't think with my limited knowledge I will be handing out advise to oftenbut I will be looking for some Right now I am concentrating on Jig prodution but am looking at getting into making spinner baits in the near future . As a start of question I have been playing at powder coating my jigs and have found that although I clean my eyes when I put them back in the oven to bake on the powder coat, the eyes fill in and are very tough to clean ,how can I avoid this

Thank Mike

Hi Mike,
Welcome to TU. I know you're new here, but when you get settled in, post your questions in the wire bait section. You will get a wide variety of ideas and responses to your questions. Myself and others will be more than glad to help you out. I will tell you one thing though. Once you start getting info from everyone, you will get addictd to this stuff, if you are not already..........Now to answer your question. If you are getting paint filling your jig eye after cleaning it from painting, then you have too much paint on your jig. What's happening is this. If you are hanging your jig on you rack by the hook bend, then the excess paint is running down and covering your hook eye again. You can hang the jig by the hook eye, but now the paint will run down and bulge somewhere else. Either way it doesn't look good. Heat your jig, fluff your powder, and swish the jig through the powder. That's it.............Hope this helps. If you have any more questions, you can PM me....

[LedHed]

Welcome into the underground.
You might be curing too hot and you might be placing your jigs too close to your heating element as well.

[mike s]

Thanks for the welcome ,..... Cadman , should have looked there firstI'll get the hang of this and find my way around amazing amount of information on here
Ledhed, I will check the curing temp time chart .thanks for taking the time to reply

Mike

[EugeneM]

Welcome aboard Mike.