mold questions for redman

[Fatman]

Gonna have to get this made into a sticky - and start a new thread!!! Definately don't want to lose this stuff.

 

[redear]

pressed the jighead blank two times, and the sprue hole once with a .093 drill bit, got it all sanded flat again now I'm taping the hook down and trying to get it perfectly straight, this part makes me nervous. Doug, we ain't gonna lose this stuff, I ain't goin nowhere. I like those blue flaked black heads you made!

 

[CrappieHappy]

Sounds like you have been busy Kip!

 

[Fatman]

Definately sounds like you were busy today!!!!!!!!! Is this another pinkie style or?? Yeah I'm liking that head color although I'm gonna put some more clear in the mix as I slipped pouring the glitter in. I've been going back through the paint section and looking at what clear/glitter mix's I want to make up.

 

[redear]

well I worked on a new mold off and on all day, and this evening I got it to where I could pour a jighead, took four pics got them in the phone under messages so gonna have to get the wife to change my phone to the way it was so I can send them to my email. anyway it's the same old oblong pinkie head as the last mold I made except it is larger, a good 1/16 oz. and the hook eyelet is a little farther forward so it will track better in a slow trolling situation.

 

[redear]

Heath, I got those pics sent, thanks as always.

 

[CrappieHappy]

I incorporated Kips pics in his thread below.

 

[CrappieHappy]

Nice work Kip!

 

[Fatman]

Very nice!!! Man a mold in a day!!! That's called kickin it - great job and nice looking jig head.

 

[redear]

thanks for posting the pics heath! thanks doug! first pic is the mold with the jighead blank sandwiched, getting ready to press the jighead blank.


second pic is the sprue hole which is on top.



third pic is the first jighead poured.


fourth pic is new jighead



fifth pic is the new head on the left and the older lighter one on the right, these two heads are to be used for different kinds of fishing hence the difference in the location of the hook eyelet on each head.

 

[Fatman]

Kip - Very Nice!!!!!!!!!!!! With all this mold making I can see piles of jigs poured and waiting to be tied!!! Another great job!!!

 

[redear]

finished up the new mold this evening and poured four heads to check it out. I had to make short alignment pins for it, and repress the hook slot, and remove a few burrs and repress the head blank, and then reface the mold halves just a little. I'm real happy with this mold, tied a few two tone green kiptail jigs, one of them with blaze orange thread, man that thing pops!

 

[redear]

want to fire up the lee pot and pour a bunch of these so I can paint some and get them to curing, alot of these heads get tied unpainted though and just use a two color hair scheme and a third color for the thread, and leave the head for some flash.

 

[CrappieHappy]

nice progress Kip!

 

[Fatman]

With all the molds you've made they shouldn't overheat if you pour all of them!!! Supposed to rain all weekend here so I'm hoping to pour some more.

 

[redear]

fired up the pot this evening and poured 82 heads from the new mold, then cleaned them up and tucked them away in a plano box, need to do that a couple times this week to build up some inventory. really got on a roll, it's surprised me how you can get pouring a single cavity mold and every movement has purpose, it did get warm or rather hot but I just went to cleaning up the heads I'd already poured. used vmc size 4 black nickel 9147's.

 

[redear]

oh yeah, I have put some of those ingots Heath sent me into the pot, very nice lead indead, it has that blue rainbow effect after it cools in the pot.

 

[Fatman]

Yeah I have a few of those ingots left, and if you pour a bunch even an hour a night you'll have so many heads stocked up you'll be glad you did.

 

[redear]

yeah, might make another run at it this evening, I told that crappie fisherman I got the other mold from that I had made another mold and he is itching to see these new jigs, he liked the other pinkie head I made a mold for but it was a tad light and the hook eyelet placement wasn't for trolling, but he loved the shape, so this head is just what he wants.

 

[CrappieHappy]

Kip, sounds like you have been busy... Glad you could put the lead to use....