12-21-2006, 03:15 AM
the eyes are peal and stick reflective stickers. yes they do get soggy if you use them for more than a couple hours like I do. I carry a couple extras if the fish move them off or I nock the off.
it you want to perminantly mount them. use clear enamal fingernail pollish over top the entire finish. If your woried about the quality of the reflectiveness then just enamal over the edge of the sticker. Personaly I dont think you need it. I have been useing them for years. the eyes are cheep enough and I seldom keep a lure after it rusts.
use an ebrasive cloth to clean the inside of the spoon, use plumers flux and plumbers silver soder.
use a cast Iron skillet that you never plan on using for food ever again. solder and lead releases toxic fumes that will re-release while cooking, cleaning will not remove toxic waist.
you can pick up a cheep pancake skillet at your nerrest wally mart for about ten bucks. as Tubedude has suggested.
I make only one at a time. I use a vice and a hand torch. clean flux the iside of the perchesed hammered spoon. bend clean and flux the hook before starting.
wear goggles
heat the bottom of the spoon using the silver solder spool wire about a foot out from the heat, you dont want to splatter you hand.
fill spoon, careful not to over fill. use neadle nose pliers to set the hook in to the melt. you need to hold it there till one the hook is heated, (only a couple seconds) then till the fill cools enough to hold the hook by its self.
to paint.
you pick your base color.
the one above is yellow powder. thin applyed your best method. then use a soft makeup brush to apply the top with black and the bottom with red.
note the uneveness because of the splatter. this is where the craafters heat blower comes in handy. It evens out the flow of the powder paints.
this is why I said once you have mastered the powders you will be able to do some amazing things with it. In comparison to some of the stuff I have seen, I am a slouch.... I do well enough for myself.
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it you want to perminantly mount them. use clear enamal fingernail pollish over top the entire finish. If your woried about the quality of the reflectiveness then just enamal over the edge of the sticker. Personaly I dont think you need it. I have been useing them for years. the eyes are cheep enough and I seldom keep a lure after it rusts.
use an ebrasive cloth to clean the inside of the spoon, use plumers flux and plumbers silver soder.
use a cast Iron skillet that you never plan on using for food ever again. solder and lead releases toxic fumes that will re-release while cooking, cleaning will not remove toxic waist.
you can pick up a cheep pancake skillet at your nerrest wally mart for about ten bucks. as Tubedude has suggested.
I make only one at a time. I use a vice and a hand torch. clean flux the iside of the perchesed hammered spoon. bend clean and flux the hook before starting.
wear goggles
heat the bottom of the spoon using the silver solder spool wire about a foot out from the heat, you dont want to splatter you hand.
fill spoon, careful not to over fill. use neadle nose pliers to set the hook in to the melt. you need to hold it there till one the hook is heated, (only a couple seconds) then till the fill cools enough to hold the hook by its self.
to paint.
you pick your base color.
the one above is yellow powder. thin applyed your best method. then use a soft makeup brush to apply the top with black and the bottom with red.
note the uneveness because of the splatter. this is where the craafters heat blower comes in handy. It evens out the flow of the powder paints.
this is why I said once you have mastered the powders you will be able to do some amazing things with it. In comparison to some of the stuff I have seen, I am a slouch.... I do well enough for myself.
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