glow materials

[sticksteer]

Need some help with a good glow powder paint, who makes the brightest ones in your opion. I believe the glow makes a difference especially in the muddy water here in Mississippi.

 

[Ron Don]

Need some help with a good glow powder paint, who makes the brightest ones in your opion. I believe the glow makes a difference especially in the muddy water here in Mississippi.

As far as premixed glow paints Protec's super glows are good. Now you can buy the glow pigment and mix in your own paint. You can get a bunch of different colors of glow nowadays, but the colored glows aren't cheap!

 

[LedHed]

If you are adding super glow powders to fingernail polish - mix small amounts. It will last longer - stuff seems to set up faster.

"As far as premixed glow paints Protec's super glows are good" X 2

 

[sticksteer]

RD, can you mix the glow pigment like x2 for plastics with the powder paints ? LH , are you mixing in with the nail polish and just using when you need it or just sprinkling or dipping in the glow after applying the nail polish ?

 

[Ron Don]

Yes you can mix glow powder with powder paint, plastisol, nail polish.... I'll try to take a pic of the colors I have of the glow pigments I have tonight.

 

[LedHed]

Mixing also. I try to keep the fp thinned and paint a couple of coats so it doesn't come out looking lumpy. The pp, out there, is plenty fine for what I do.

You can mix powder with epoxy also.

 

[Bucho]

Just did my first glow mix, custom work for that float & fly steelheader who wants to try for kings at night:

2 par hot pink(=color of choice)
2 par glow bee gloss
1 par concentrated glow powder paint

I don´t have good pics but it looks pretty neat. You can´t tell the glow part in daylight, but it does glow nicely, in the same pink color it is based upon.
I´m pretty sure you get every tone you want with a similar mixture. a coat of glow bee gloss might do the job on its own, but its very subtle, hardly visible to the naked eye.

 

[CrappieHappy]

Hmm, I may have to try some of this out as well...

 

[sticksteer]

thanks for all the good info guys !

 

[LedHed]

Very interesting recipe bucho - thnx for sharing. You would be surprised how some people over here guard their recipe like a dirty little secret. They get their panties in a wad if you tease them about it..... Gets SOME people banned from other sites - LOL - OK stopping now.

Haven't heard of the glo bee gloss -something to look into?

 

[Ron Don]

Well here is a cruddy phone pic of the raw glow powders that I have. Staring from left it's.... Red, yellow, orange, green, blue. I have a lb of another blue that I like better but couldn't find it in my junked up shop.



In the pic it's hard to distinguish between the red and orange but there is a difference. But the green and yellow are pretty close.

 

[sticksteer]

About how long do they glow when charged ? Ive seen some industrial glow paints (used for safety striping) that advertise they will glow for 12 hrs ! Rather costly when compared to pro-tech . I'm going to try some of the ones for plastics for sure. Thanks for the photos.

 

[Ron Don]

I've bought the stuff you're talking about thats suppose to glow 12 hrs. It does glow a while, but 12 hours was a bit overrated for what I received!

 

[Bucho]

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Haven't heard of the glo bee gloss -something to look into?

Frankly, I was disapointed by the low glowing performance. I guess you can´t have both, a strong glow and a clear coat since that expensive phospor stuff will be seen at some point of concentration.
I was using it because I had it and it made sense in a mix like that. Guess you can easiely replace it with a decent mix. I wouldn´t buy it again without trying to substitute with a mix of gloss and phospor.

They do make a good job of hiding the glow stuff in a perfectly clear coat, I give `m that. So if you want a very subtle shining coating on your pre-existing favorite colour and can´t get a good mix without particles beeing seen, it might be something for you, but thats highly theoretical.

@ RondDon: Thanks for the pic! Looking at those "raw" paints, I find it obvious that in the end there´s only one sort of real glow stuff to be mixed with other colours in the first place. Think about it: the darkest colours are red and orange - the ones where you can`t mix too much milky white stuff in without ending up with pink So if you mix it anyhow, there´s no need to buy anything else then the glow concentrate. Easier to store, Easier to calibrate.

 

[Lost Pole]

Been trying to soak all this up. Where would one go to read up in the concentrate and possibly purchase?

 

[Bucho]

I got this
http://www.bleigussformen-shop.de/Gloe-Nachleuchtender-Pulverlack-80-gr

it says that "phosphorous pigments" were expensive stuff, making it 3 times more expensive than the other colors. There´s no other colour pigment in it than glow.

Btw I can´t believe that this is the cutting edge lead pouring/jig crafting site in Germany.
Reminds me of where I was 7 months ago before I found this board. Big up! :icon14:

 

[Ron Don]

Some of The ones in my pic are from custombaits.com
This is the old caney creek molds site. Do It molds bought them and changed the name. Their prices are good.

 

[Bucho]

Just got a hint at some hardcore glow powder to mix into powder paint. Its highly heat resistant and said to be top-notch with respect to performance and durability. The stealhead guy I made the pink mix for is about to test it. I´m good with phosphor powder for the moment but would go for a longer lasting glow any time since I hate recharging when standing in the water at night, seems to spook the fish.

http://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=28_45

 

[Creature Man]

Not sure if you ever tried lure craft or poor mans plastic. They carry the glow powder.

Creature Man