Tied up a few bucktails today, with a twist

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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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.

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

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

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...

nothing wrong with those

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.

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.

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