Tied up a few bucktails today, with a twist

[AllenOK]

Someone throw me a lifeline, for I feel I'm heading into unsafe waters!

Over the weekend, I bought some Red and White powder paint from Harbor Freight, and built an alcohol lamp. I've been itching to try it out.

These jigs pictured are the first jigs I grabbed out of my LMB jig/spinner box. I cleaned them up a bit, then painted them red. I was planning on doing the classic Red/White combo. Pictured are two 1/8 oz ball heads w/ collar, and a 1/4 oz jig that's more of a wedge than a ball head. The 1/8's have craft fur, and the 1/4 has bucktail. I used some metallic red cross-stitch thread for the collar, to give it a little different look. I actually used 70-denier red thread to tie the jigs with (need to get some heavier denier thread in red). Obviously I put a little to much powder on the 1/4 oz, as it dripped. One of the 1/8's has a small nipple as well. They'll still fish.

I'll take them to the river for Stripers/Wipers/Whites in the Spring.

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[Kdog]

Looks good, Drips are caused by too much paint caused by head being too hot when dipping. A fluid bed will help reduce the problem but too hot of a head is best cured by learning to control your heat time on the raw head.

Heat for a count of 4 seconds then swish in your powder, if head is colred and dull looking, its perfect. If its partially covered and you still see lead, add a second to your count. If its shiny, head was too hot reduce count a second or two....................................

Something that really helps is to have some clear, I like roseys 200 percent clear and mix half and half. Some powders I have gone 6 parts clear to one part color.

 

[LedHed]

Nothing wrong with "nipple" jigs - they fish..

You can't have too much clear when you get into the powder painting.

 

[Jig Man]

Dang skippy those will hunt...

Also I cut my HF paint with clear, even as much as 50/50...

Seems to help with the drips...

Also gives it a candy/chiny look...

 

[Fatman]

nothing wrong with those

 

[AllenOK]

Thanks all. Yeah, I did these do start getting the hang of it. I knew I was going to have issues. The drips didn't surprise me. The pink ones with the white rabbit zonkers and white heads also has issues; I didn't get the heads totally covered.

Yeah, Clear is on my list of things to get. I also picked up several of the components to make my first fluid bed today.

 

[StumpHunter]

Those are looking good. What are you doing to get the pink shade in your pictures? They look good as a light pink or white.

 

[AllenOK]

No idea??? The heads look nice and red on my pc. The tails look white to my eye.