[livelybaits]

These are from the sparkie, shake it and Yamamoto molds. I use a lot of 1/8 and 1/4 oz jigheads for the fishing around here. The shake it mold pours both the flat eye jighead and the standard eye or even the 60 degree. I showed the variety of colors I like to paint them. Red, red holograph, gold holograph, mix of gold and red holograph, regular gold, yellow and pearl white.

I'll work on some individual shots of them for the gallery.

[cadman]

Definitely would like to see some individual shots. From what I can see they look very nicely done. Several of questions though. Are you using Pro-Tec powder on the white pearl and on the gold? How do you like those two colors? Any problems with the pearl powder? Keep up the good work.

[MDC]

Lively
I'd be interested in seeing the red holi jigs

Hey Ted
I use the Pro Tec pearl from Benjamin and I really like it. Don't know about the gold tho.
I'm sending your other jigs out this week. I'll PM you instead of hi-jacking the post

[reeves]

livelybaits,
Those look very good, I like all the colors. Would like to see them matched with skirts, I'll bet they really jump out at you. Try passing a wire through the hook eye right after you remove the jig from the powder, while it is still soft, grab the wire and rotate it as you pull it through and you will eliminate all that paint in the hook eye.

For Ted:
I have used the Pro-Tec pearl white quite a bit. It sucks. Absolutely the hardest color to do. It doesn't seem to want to flow like all the other colors, and I have tried everything to overcome this problem. It acts like it wants more heat to flow, yet it is one of the lowest heat cure temps that Pro-Tec has. If you have any answers, I'm listening.

[cadman]

Originally Posted by MDC

Lively
I'd be interested in seeing the red holi jigs

Hey Ted
I use the Pro Tec pearl from Benjamin and I really like it. Don't know about the gold tho.
I'm sending your other jigs out this week. I'll PM you instead of hi-jacking the post

Thanks Mike

Originally Posted by reeves

livelybaits,
Those look very good, I like all the colors. Would like to see them matched with skirts, I'll bet they really jump out at you. Try passing a wire through the hook eye right after you remove the jig from the powder, while it is still soft, grab the wire and rotate it as you pull it through and you will eliminate all that paint in the hook eye.

For Ted:
I have used the Pro-Tec pearl white quite a bit. It sucks. Absolutely the hardest color to do. It doesn't seem to want to flow like all the other colors, and I have tried everything to overcome this problem. It acts like it wants more heat to flow, yet it is one of the lowest heat cure temps that Pro-Tec has. If you have any answers, I'm listening.

George,
I really haven't used pearl, so I can not comment. However, I do like the looks of livelybaits pearl jigs. I'll have to find time to try it. I will say, I have Pro-Tecs Gold and Silver, and I hate the color of both of them. I have no problem wih applying it, it's just that the gold really doesn't look like gold, and the silver is more like gray. I have found a substitute for both of those in a custom blend. I think I'm going to have to start thinning my powder supply, and get rid of some stuff.

[reeves]

I did a hundred jigs just like the one Lively has pictured and I bet 98 of them came out with a flat (no gloss) spot just below the hook eye. The rest of the jig looked just like those in Lively's picture. Go figure. I like the gold, it works for me.

Lively, sorry to hijack your thread, I'll shut up now. Great looking baits, keep up the great work.

[livelybaits]

MDC, Cadman and Reeves,
Thanks.

Yes it is the Pro Tec white and the gold too. I do OK with both of them. It's the Pro Tec "glows" where I have real issues. If you guys look at my other posts I lack an "exactness" to my work. I use a candle to heat them and then dip them, something I'll change in the future. Sometimes the red or gold holograph colors come out more black with red or gold flakes (but that's a good pattern down here anyway).

It's funny to see how things go for others: The "gold" came out good and has every time I've used that powder. The pearl white has been pretty clean too.

MDC,
I'll post another photo of the red holograph painted jigs for you. The ones that come out "heavy red" for me get a lot of strikes. I love that paint. (No worries on hi-jacking the topic, I enjoy seeing whatever people say or where things go in discussion)

Cadman,
I've had some "indoor" camera issues or I'd have the individual photos already done. I'll get the camera issue resolved or have a new camera here shortly and get some better detailed shots. I have pretty basic stuff. Where I hope to accel this year will be in modifying a mold to fit a lot better hooks for some really light jigs

Reeves,
I've never put a skirt on () But I'll send you some of these to see if you want to try that with these. I attach soft plastic tails to these jigheads for my uses-for these saltwater fish I catch. I will be also adding some red and white material to these to make what I call (in a broad general category) Bucktail Jigs.

I'll work on the other pictures. Enjoy interacting with you folks! Neil

[livelybaits]

Originally Posted by reeves

I did a hundred jigs just like the one Lively has pictured and I bet 98 of them came out with a flat (no gloss) spot just below the hook eye. The rest of the jig looked just like those in Lively's picture. Go figure. I like the gold, it works for me.

Lively, sorry to hijack your thread, I'll shut up now. Great looking baits, keep up the great work.

George,
No worries. No hijacking here. And I will tell you that I "hand picked" the jigs for this photo. I'm very happy with 60% of the jigs I paint. The rest have various issues due to my own (inept) abilities. At any rate, the gold looks good but I lean heavy on the "red", holographic red, holo gold and the mix of holo gold and holo red.

The Yellow is for "pompano" jigs.

I'm a hack. But now that I've made you folks as friends, I'll get better.

[MDC]

Neil
Cadman and Reeves probably make as many lead heads as anyone here at TU. I don't know that I've seen Reeves' work, but Cadman does some really neat stuff with powder paint and has given me some pretty good tips. I use different hooks in some of my molds that what were intended. Some are heavily modified and some need no mods. Let me know what mold you want to modify and I'll try to help.

Also get an inexpensive heat gun and you'll wonder how you ever got by with a candle. Some folks heat their jigs in a toaster oven before dipping. I just heat mine with the gun then bake.

[FishinME]

Lively, how well do the "ring and barb" collars hold the platic to the jighead? Do these jigheads tear up your baits at all?