[champ198]

i am looking at getting a weedless football jig mold...the one in Barlows that does both flat eye and normal is the one i am looking for but the main size head i want is a 1/2 oz.....does anyone know if there are any out there like this that all the cavities are the same size? would make it much faster if i could pour 3-4 heads at a time rather than doing just one at a time anyone have any ideas for this?
would also like to have the same mold in 3/4 oz

[Basseducer]

Champ,
Unless you go custom I beleive you are stuck with one at a time. For going custom you can buy a blank mold from Do-it and take it to a local mahine shop and have them make what you want . Or have one made by someone like Collins. Both are expensive and take time. Hope this helps.

[JSC]

Just a note about pouring more than one at a time.

A extra good percision mold is generaly one cavity.

U gotta put a hook in one at the time ... is muti cavity really faster ??

I have both and seem to turn out more with the single cavity .. It must depend upon the individuals skills or what he is conditioned to ..
?? Like to see some more comments as I know there are some using centrifigual casting .... what appears to be the fastest (consider flashing being equal on all) ????



JSC


JSC

[reeves]

I tend to agree with JSC on this one. Do-it makes very few production molds, mostly in the round ball-head jig styles. The fact is that you do have to load a hook for each jig, so you either do it eight times once, or once eight times? (did that make sense ?). In other words your time is practically equal, and I lean toward one at a time because when pouring multiples, often I get splash over from one cavity to the next, thus ruining that part.

Centrifugal casting is far better and faster and the end part is a part that does not require sprue removal and seldom any clean up to the part. For production purposes, this is the way to go.

[JSC]

Thanx George

You confirmed my way of thinking ... I had seen several post with statements about multiple cavities that I was thinking it mite be me.

Had not been as fimiliar with centrifugal casting to know .. thanx for that info.

JSC

[HAWGHUNNA]

I am also interested in this mold,anyone using it?

I'm curious about the trailer keeper barb,I want a good'n.

[cadman]

Champ198…I’m totally in agreement with JSC and Reeves about one size multi-cavities or Do-It production molds. I too have not found it beneficial, to buy single size multi-cavity molds. I can load hooks and pour much faster one at a time. I also did some testing like George Reeves did and my findings are the same on single size multi-cavity molds (production molds). Lead overflows from one cavity into the next, making that cavity useless. Then I would load every other cavity with hooks, and pour every other hole. That would work better, but depends on how close the cavities are the lead would still pour over or splash and I didn’t always get a good pour. The reason I believe I didn’t get a good pour is because, on some molds you have to tilt them one way or the other to get good pours, and with production mold I have a tendency to forget, thus the bad or incomplete pour. If you want production then the way George does it with centrifugal casting is the way to go. Another way to get production runs is what I do. When I have 100’s to pour of one size, I have two of the same molds. While I pour in one mold, my wife loads hooks in the other, and dumps the hot jigs out. Believe it or not I can move a lot of jigs this way, and my pours are nearly always perfect. I’m not saying to recruit your wife, but maybe you have an older kid down the block that wants to learn how the process is done, and you can show him. Then if he’s into fishing, you can give him some painted jigs.

Hawghunna
The best trailer keepers I have found so far is on the Do-It Arky jig mold model ARK-3-AFC. Although I hand tie my skirts, the double collar allows you to put on a banded skirt which really holds well, and it also lets you put on a grub, which holds extremely well also. Just my personal opinion.