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Most likely dust that has fallen on the bait during painting and is stuck to the bait. I wipe my baits real quick with a blue shop towel before I coat, takes oil and dust off. Then a tip I was told that has worked fantastically for me is to get a light coating on the entire bait with the brush, then hit it with the hair dryer and let the hot air and wind blow the epoxy all around the bait. Then work the excess from the nose to the tail (do this in a box or something, epoxy will fly everywhere) and hang to dry. You'll be left with a nice thin smooth finish with no bubbles.

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I think you are overthinking this. Doesn't really matter what it is if it works, dip a bait and find out.

They work ok for just general spraying. I use one to shoot my white base coats.. they are not good though and have tons of overspray. The master g22 and g23 is about the only cheap half-way decent airbrush out there IMO. I have one of those and often pick it up if I am running two colors at once, if you get the .2 needle kit you can shoot some decent detail with that brush. If you are just getting into airbrushing and not sure if you really want to stick with it or not- get that brush. At the very least you will have a workable backup brush later if you upgrade. 0.3 needle is the basic middle-ground size that will pretty much do it all.

I use small tupperware tubs. One for opaques, one for pearls/iridescents, one for fluorescents, and one with my base coat, clear, thinner, white, and black in it. That at least lets me narrow down what I am looking for. I label the caps so I can easily see what it is.

Its been floating around the facebook groups for probably 3-4 months, someone eventually contacted KBS and they said it was a new formula that has better stabilizers for long term storage... how new and if its still the newest I have no idea. The can also opens easily on the yellow stuff. There was also a bad batch of KBS I've heard talked about, but it was supposed to be removed from shelves, I'm not sure what the exact issue with it was.

New formula, supposed to be more shelf stable. Still dries nice and clear.

Shoot it onto a white plastic spoon

I mix different powders into createx matte clear. Yes the paint is cloudy but it dries clear as can be. Another option may be thinned down cs seal coat. Its water based and can be thinned with tap water. I'm not sure how thin you can get it, never tried to get it thin enough to shoot.

The KBS is really thin, like water thin. You should still do 2-3 coats with it not thinned. For the "ventilated area" make sure you have a volatile chemical proof fan, or you may have a boom. You need a mask too, the fumes are horrible. I do all my dipping outdoors and then bring the baits inside to my drying racks to cure after about 15-30 minutes, almost all of the stink is gone by then.. I just dont like having them outside any longer for fear of dust/debris landing on them. You need to empty the entire can into a mason jar, you can buy really large ones at walmart cheap, then just transfer into a tall skinny one for dipping and refill as needed. Be sure to put the plastic wrap under the lid. You will absolutely destroy the KBS can when you open it, I swear they glue the lid down with D2T when packaging the KBS. It will take screw drivers, tin snips, pry bars... I have had KBS in a jar for 2 months and no issues, no preservative gasses. But if you do the two mason jar strategy like I suggested, definitely pick up some sort of heavy gas oxygen blocker for the storage jar... your argon will work fine. 2" baits per quart... hundreds. I think I dip around 50 cranks out of my tall skinny pint jar before refilling, and that's just refilling because its too low to dip anymore not because its empty. I've never really counted before though. For buying, you can sometimes find discount codes on the lure making websites and facebook groups for buying direct.

I have tried them, the black was ok and red was ok. rest were junk

You copyright a design, trademark a name or phrase. Like the design on the redeye shad could be copyrighted, bait patented, the name trademarked. Its easy to trademark something, but then youll have to spend the money to defend it. You could trademark the name "hoolaflipper" for a topwater bait and I can come along and call my topwater the same thing, its up to you to hire a lawyer to come after me to keep me from using it. Not exactly practical unless you are a big name company with millions to lose.

More flo yellow over white base

Flo yellow createx is what I use. The green at the head is flo green, spray that over the yellow in a light coat for a green chartreuse.

Nail polish is acetone based, may mess with some paints or even your plastic blank. I found out the hard way...

You open the hook eye after you demold the jig. That way if it breaks you just dunk the lead and toss the hook. If opens then you move on and paint. Youll rarely break one while closing.

I started with that. Didnt hold up at all. Sally hansen hard as nails is better but its really time consuming.

Createx 4012 is just butoxy ethanol and water, it thins about anything that doesnt need to be desolved.

I use the createx iridescent blue over black to make a cool color shifting purple. The key is LIGHT COATS until you get the desired effect.

I picked up some cs seal coat and that seems to be working well. I will look into the UV stuff but I really need to be able to work indoors.. around here it could be 75 and 50% humidity, 95 with 80% humidity or -20 and snowing depending on the time of year.. indoors and climate controlled is the only way i can stay consistent.

Blade bait

Vmc 9651 and vmc rings as well. Very nice mid-range hook.

Ive bought from cadman on here before I believe. Other than that I bought the mold and blades a few years ago and poured 1000 then sold it. I havent ran out yet

You definitely dont want to use rattle can and fingernail polish, the acetone will react with the paint. Learned that a few years ago.

Doesnt look like it unfortunately. I looked all over the google and couldnt find any white etching primer. I tossed 20 jig heads in a block vise i made and hit them with the gray, then some rustoleum flat white spray I had. They seem to have taken the paint well, now I have to paint some up and see if they hold. Even using two paints, its cheaper than spraying a createx white base on each one. And about 100 times faster.