Moose wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:10 pm
Man this is making me miss my days of just painting baits! Always special to catch something on a creation of your own, even if it is just a paint job! Awesome work!
That mold was relatively inexpensive, considering that it has 14 cavities so you can make a lot of lures in one squirt of the injector. But I had 'em customize the mold, adding a hook slot in the belly...which more than doubled the cost.
So now I am a lure designer, heh heh.
It's a relief to know the FloookZ soft jerkbait swims as expected. Gonna get a sea trial on the big bay this weekend. Made more colors...red, copper, green, clear/blue glitter, clear/red+blue glitter, green back/clear belly, chartreuse, and even a few clear ones.
Also cranked out a few random swimbaits from other molds to use up the hot plastisol.
All these were made using less than a gallon of new plastic ($46)...and by remelting some old baits. So yeah, injecting plastic baits isn't that expensive (once you get several hundred dollars worth of molds, injectors, and random gear).
