Helping the blind

[AndyLane]

Spent a little time tonight helping Blind jigs See. For those of you who add 3d eyes to Large quantities of jigs in one sitting, I tip my hat to you. I maybe did close to a hundred before my own eyes became GOOGLY.

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[Bucko]

you get a rythem afterwhile. I use fingers. bodkin just made me mad.

 

[plateboater]

All worth it in the long run.... All about the detail!!

 

[AtticaFish]

Look good...... but my fingers would be permanently cramped after that.

BTW - Very kind gesture of you to help the blind.......... need more people like you in the world!

 

[hookup]

Do you add any additional adhesive to the eyes when applying?

 

[JSC]

Really Good Of You To Help The Blind

 

[Jig Man]

Hey Radtexan..... Found you some help!!!

 

[AndyLane]

Do you add any additional adhesive to the eyes when applying?

Hopefully i wont regret it later but no. I was putting superglue at first but it is a pain if you ask me. I hate superglue! Always end up getting it on something it shouldnt it be on and/or something (me) glued to something it shouldnt be. With exception of the heads painted with the harbor freight pp (not sure why?) the eyes were sticking pretty solid so I just stuck em on and brushed sallys on them. Wish I could just dip them in some kind of clearcoat instead of brushing on sally's. I get a better look it seems and it is faster. Can anyone recommend anything? thought about vinyl clearcoat or some kind of one coat epoxy. I like the stick on eyes a whole lot but it sure adds a lil to the process. I think it may be more for the fisherman than the fish but hey I Think my Thinking has been wrong before....I Think.

 

[toadfrog]

I hate to break this to you but the only real way to keep eyes on is to recess the mold for sockets . There is a thread somewhere one of us did using a pop rivet . It works well and is easy.

 

[Bucko]

hey andy, I am experimenting with different adhesives. im not yaving much luck with sallies lately. its been very very humid and rainy this year. I think it is messing with the sallies, or they changed the formula? ill let u.onow if I.find a better substitute.

 

[CrappieHappy]

nice work Andy, it is tideous work...

 

[StumpHunter]

Looking good. Lots of work to add the eyes but we can't have blind jigs running around!

 

[hookup]

Andy, I don't know. I've tried the superglue trick and end up glueing my eye lids together.

Other's that I know use Devcon to coat their jigs, but I've had problems with the devcon changing colors of the powder paint & delaminating the eyes.

I'm open to knowledge ...

 

[Bucko]

im trying something new to me as I type this. I stuck the eyes on right after painting while the paint was still gooey.I have them curing right now @ 400 for 20 miminutes. 7 minutes to go and the eyes seem to be holding ip. im hoping that the paint will adhere them permanently while curing. we'll see.... I really hope this works. I hate double and triple coating them to get the eyez stick the way I want them to.

 

[Bucko]

I'd still have ~400 or so to do with overcoating but oh well...

 

[Bucko]

well I'll be damned... that worked slicker than snot! eyes did not melt. they held up great and still have their luster! I know how im gonna be doing them from now on!

 

[StumpHunter]

That is slick~! looks like it didn't mess with the eyes at all...

 

[Jig Man]

HMMMMMMM!