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I ordered my core shot mold back in November the week before Thanksgiving and got it right before the first of the year. Josh and crew moved his shop and equipment which is what caused the delay. I believe once he gets things lined out in his new shop the lead times will drop back to 10 to 15 days. He doesn't build for inventory, so every mold is made when you order it and I'm sure he groups like orders to try and optimize machine time. Not sure if he loses business because he doesn't stock molds, but his success story is an awesome one. If you haven't checked out the youtube video where Chris Jones (Worlds Worst Fishing) does a shop tour at Angling AI you should watch it.

Well, I can't take credit for a specific recipe on this one. One side is just some remelt green pumpkin dingers, and the other side is a batch of plum apple I screwed up and had some leftover that I remelted. Friend of mine had some green pumpkin/plum apple with red flake laminated stick baits he wanted me to try and replicate in a fluke. I screwed up and dumped some blue flake in it and screwed up about 4 cups of plastic. So, it turned out to be plum apple with green / red / blue flake. I made 4 cups of plastisol with I think about 70 drops of plum MF colorant and 30 drops of MF purple to get the color then added large green / blue / red flake. Since this was my first attempt at using the lamination plate I just used some leftovers I had laying around. It is definitely a color that works in Texas! My buddy calls it his "perch color senko" We all call him crazy.. It was a little tricky getting the halves back in the mold straight, but I'm happy with the results. I will say that this Angling AI mold produces an outstanding bait and was well worth the wait. It also has the rods to make core shot baits, but I haven't tried that method yet.

Thanks again for the comments and advice! I made a flashing plate yesterday for my stick worm mold and it worked perfectly. I like that I can make 10 halves in one shot and easily put the halves back in the mold to make the laminate. Had to get the second shot fairly hot, but they laminated very well and came out perfect. Thanks again for your help!

Thanks for the pic! It makes more sense to me now on how to use the flashing. I can do this and produce 10 halves that I can then shoot the other side over. I'll be giving this method a try!

One thing I have learned from using the lamination plate for the fluke mold is that you have to make sure the vents at the tail end of the fluke are open when doing the second layer. I had to start cutting the tips off the tail from the first shot to make sure that it vented when I shot the second layer. Otherwise it would blow hot plastic under the first layer and ruin the whole batch. When you shoot the second layer it refills where the tips are cut off. With the AI mold, you can flip over one side of the mold plate and it fits perfectly as a lamination plate, but would need to have an injection port machined in. The sprew is more than big enough on one side that it wouldn't need to have a full length sprew machined in. There would also have to be some very small vents machined in, but It would really be easy for them to add this feature to the back side of one of the mold halves and not have to machine a complete lamination plate. I'm interested in the flashing, but still don't understand how it would work unless it's sandwiched in between the plates. Seems like it would be too thin to be applying pressure to without something backing it up? If anyone has a pic of how they use the flashing please post it.

The AI mold is 5" x 7" so the lamination plate for the essential won't work. I have a plate for a fluke mold I have, but it's much smaller also. I don't have a dual injector and can't afford to buy one right now, but I want to make some laminated senkos. The fluke mold I have the plate for works great for laminating flukes, but it was machined for that mold and is just as thick as one side of the mold, and has the sprew machined in.

How are you using the flashing? Do you sandwich it between the plates? How do you shape the injection port to make the plastic only go to one side if you sandwich the flashing between the plates? I've got some thin aluminum flashing that might work. Thanks for all the replies!

Has anyone here built their own lamination plates? I just got a new Angling AI 5" stick bait mold and would really like to make a lamination plate so I can make laminates. Angling AI doesn't make them and doesn't do custom work. If you have made one, how difficult is it?