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BLT, I am using soft lead ingots I bought off of jansnetcraft. I think I figured out the problem. I read in another post that the brush jig mold has problems with bottom pour pots. So I tried to ladle the lead into it and it filled the cavity perfectly. I was able to make around 50 jigs this way with only 3 incomplete pours. I think this may be due to the flow rate of the lead that comes out of the bottom pour pot.

Thank you so much sdfd29. Really great feedback. I will definitely be getting the drop out as soon as possible. Hopefully my jigs will start to look much better

Dlaery, the hook is not an oversize hook. It is the recommended 4/0 hook. The pours that actually came out fine look perfect. The only problem is that there are too manky incomplete pours. I will try to heat up the hook before I pour the lead like Dink Master said to do. The only problem with that is that I do not currently own a heat gun to heat the hooks with. Will a lighter suffice to heat up the hooks enough? Also I did heat up the mold, to the point where my arm accidentally touched it and I got burned. So the mold was relatively hot. That leaves me to believe that it is the hooks that are causing the problem. Also I was wondering how to store the lead after it is melted. Do you leave it in the pot and let it harden? Or will that damage the pot? One other thing was that when I put weedgaurds on the Jigs that actually poured well, the weedgaurd wasn't as firm as I would like it. Is there a way I can stiffen it? I have heard of putting a dab of superglue in the bristles and that can help stiffen it. Thanks for the help above and I will try to apply your tips. Answers to the questions I just asked would be greatly appreciated as I am new to this and hope to start making many more jigs.

thank you for your information i will try to apply this to my next pour

Hi I am new to the website and today was my first time ever pouring jigs. I ran into a problem with the large amount of incomplete pours that occurred. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how I can prevent the incomplete pours from happening. I only made a few complete jigs and I was frustrated as I could not figure out what I was doing wrong. Today was the first time that the molds have ever been used. Is my mold too cold? Is my lead not hot enough? After putting in almost $600 into buying all the things to make jigs, I really hope I can fix this problem and make boatloads of complete jigs. I was also wondering how I should keep my lead. I use a Lee Production Pot 4 and I was wondering If I am supposed to empty out the lead out of the pot before I allow it to cool. The instructions that came with the pot would not open so I can't read them. I really appreciate help into solving my problem as I am very new to this and could use some guidance on how to make complete, high quality bass jigs. I uploaded two pictures of the incomplete jigs. As you can see there is missing lead where the skirt goes. This was the only place where lead would not fill in the mold.