Cane Pole
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Wet & Wild!!! Fished in the river today with the same lure for 3 hours with no chips. You can't ask for more than that.
Let's talk about nail polish
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And that's not all I got!
At a buck or two a bottle I can't say no. Fave is fourth from right, bottom row: only pearl olive I've ever found. Use it so much in fresh and salt and it lives on by copious drops of nail polish thinner every so often.
Photo doesn't do some of the colours justice. Some have pearl hues through the main colour, or mixed glitter flakes, or flourescent qualities and some cool metallics.
I actually don't sorta mind semi-thickened SH Diamond Shine. It can gap fill little jigs and can be a bit like an expoxy.
Love overlaying opaques and glitters. A killer is a fine and sparse copper/bronze clear over white. And really like how it can continue over the thread neck/body. Not that that catches any more fish. I can paint while in front of the idiot box.
Dislikes:
pale colours need so many coats to get the lustre I like, that jig head mould detail vanishes or reduced.
Can't do the amazing spray, soft merging and splatter effects the best powder painters like attica do.
Thickens up.
Hard to create any patterns, seperate colours etc on small heads with the stubby applicator brushes, though using fp's viscosity and flattening the brush hairs on the inside of the bottle as you take it out means less splodging or overpainting.
Fighting 14 year old girls at the bargain store nail polish bin for that last bottle of Brilliant Sunset Pink.
14 year old girls winning.
And that's not all I got!
At a buck or two a bottle I can't say no. Fave is fourth from right, bottom row: only pearl olive I've ever found. Use it so much in fresh and salt and it lives on by copious drops of nail polish thinner every so often.
Photo doesn't do some of the colours justice. Some have pearl hues through the main colour, or mixed glitter flakes, or flourescent qualities and some cool metallics.
I actually don't sorta mind semi-thickened SH Diamond Shine. It can gap fill little jigs and can be a bit like an expoxy.
Love overlaying opaques and glitters. A killer is a fine and sparse copper/bronze clear over white. And really like how it can continue over the thread neck/body. Not that that catches any more fish. I can paint while in front of the idiot box.
Dislikes:
pale colours need so many coats to get the lustre I like, that jig head mould detail vanishes or reduced.
Can't do the amazing spray, soft merging and splatter effects the best powder painters like attica do.
Thickens up.
Hard to create any patterns, seperate colours etc on small heads with the stubby applicator brushes, though using fp's viscosity and flattening the brush hairs on the inside of the bottle as you take it out means less splodging or overpainting.
Fighting 14 year old girls at the bargain store nail polish bin for that last bottle of Brilliant Sunset Pink.
14 year old girls winning.
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Fatman
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Ya all better hope a brownie troop doesn't raid your stash's of nail polish!!!!!!!!!!
Fatman
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Here's a funny for ya!!! My wife walked into the living room the other night and handed me a bottle of nail polish to open for her, instead of opening it right away I walked in the den and got a small pack of jig heads and made like I was gonna paint one with it!!!!!
She was "NOT HAPPY" - as she'd just bought it, and told me to leave it alone!!!!!! then says you're better at painting than I am could you paint my nails!!!!!! With all the stuff I had out from tying jigs I had to decline LOL
She was "NOT HAPPY" - as she'd just bought it, and told me to leave it alone!!!!!! then says you're better at painting than I am could you paint my nails!!!!!! With all the stuff I had out from tying jigs I had to decline LOL
Pup
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My absolute favorite NP for sealing thread necks is Rimmel 60 Seconds by Coty. Haven't found a better clear yet for my uses. There's no need for me to thin it until about a third of a bottle is left.
Cane Pole
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My wife keeps coming up with new colors I should try. I wonder why??:dodgy:
Fatman
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Cause you'll try them and then she'll acquire it if it looks good LOL!!
I don't paint heads w/ nail polish much, typically prefer powder paint, but did start using a clear coated nail polish w/ glitter to add some sparkle. Did a few chartreuse colored jigs and they turned yellow-orange. Weird, but when you get lemons you make lemonaid, so tied up some perch like rabbit jigs and the head's perfect. Hard to see the lines, but took an olive sharpie to make the lines on the side.
Also use hard as nails to seal the threads.
Also use hard as nails to seal the threads.
StumpHunter
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Chartreuse is one color that you got to be careful with while using clear NP on. I use a lot of Hard as Nails as most of us do. Nice looking jig 
Fatman
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If your worried about discoloration just get some clear powder paint and dump some glitter in it and use as your clear coat, works great