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| What is a ballpark figure of cost. Say I have a slammer drop belly and a couple crankbaits that I want repainted. I send the to Durst or others that provide this service. How much per bait? |
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Location: Marshfield, WI | Most people charge around $8-10/bait. I know of some that charge more. I do believe that Stan Durst is WAY busy as he has another job and they have him working 60 hours/week, He is trying to get caught up on baits that he is way behind on. Not sure if he is taking any new orders right now. For the last year, most of my customs have been repainted by Muskynightmare. http://thenightmarewi.tripod.com
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | I suppose it depends on the type of work you are looking for. My prices are higher ($20) than what was posted above but I do the highly detailed lifelike finishes. You are lucky to be posting your question here on MuskieFirst as there are so many amazing painters to choose from. I'm sure you will be very happy with whoever you go with. Be sure to show us the finished results. |
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Location: Oregon | I find alot of guys want you to strip the lure first, repaint, and clear. By the time I do this I could easily have built the lure from scratch so financially it just doesn't make sense to do it. You will probably have better luck if you strip the lures first, then find a painter.
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| I'm with Snax, and I don't do the fancy life-like painting. What I do is take the lure down to bare wood and redo the whole process. I could just wet sand the lures and prime them, but I don't. I use heat and strip off everything, that's why I don't do cranks with bills. But when I did lures for myself I always started over from scratch with a bare blank, and that is what I do now. It takes longer, but I know that I am using products that are compatable, and products that I have faith in. I must work slower than everyone else, because if I redid a lure from start to finish for 8-10, I'd be making about $2.50 and hour, and that doesn't take primer, paint and clearcoat into the equation. With Envirotex costs going up like crazy in the last 2 years, if you put on 2 coats of clear.....not brushed on thin coats.....you're spending enough money on supplies to charge 8-10 without your time.
Maybe I'm more different than I thought, but I believe you should get paid for your time and materials. Some guys seem to think that their time is worth a lot less than others I guess. Nobody said that a custom lure painter should make minimum wage. Think about it. Some of you are some very highly trained professionals. Artists for that matter. Even a guy who paints cars in a body shop has to be making $20 an hour. How much do guys make that do custom paint jobs, with pinstriping and other special effects?
I've had some guys tell me I was nuts, and I've told some the same thing.
I think that I charge a fair price. If they don't think it's fair, they can always say, "No thanks. I'll try someone else." That's the way that it works in America.
Canada too, I think? 
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Location: Verona, WI | I just refinished my first bait for someone else and you couldn't pay me $20 to do it. By the time you strip down the bait and paint, remove hardware, sand, seal, paint, add hardware back on, and clear coat the bait it's a lot. Unless it is a special bait (and you get those with wood from time to time) or a truly unique pattern for a specific application I don't know if it's worth it.
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | I'm glad someone posted what is actually involved in doing repaints. I have done some rediculously involved paint jobs that really should have cost three times more than the $20 I charged. I consider some of them as practice and a break from the norm. Fortunately I don't get as many requests for repaints as the guys who are willing to do it for less.
You guys who are doing these incredible foil finishes must be crazy to sell at the prices some of you do! Those are crazy to do right and the results look incredible. I'm slowly discovering that if we want to sell some of our lures as art, why not actually make art in the first place? |
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Location: Minnesota | I am doing a lake trout and a special white fish and am charging about $15/bait and I am starting with a clean piece of wood. And I do NOT do the great job of others here. I plan on posting them if they look half way good so you can see what $15 would get you from me. 
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| doing re-paints can involve a lotta work. ive been doing factory customs for bait shops for years. if you want a one of it can be pricey. if you needed a dozen of its less. on plastics theres no need to strip. on some wood baits theres no need to strip. the secret is to know WHAT your painting over. if i had to strip to wood it would be just as pricey as the next guy. you will never even make minimum wage. |
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| I won't even do repaints for fatfingers anymore. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I typically charge $6.00 for paint and clearcoat, if you strip it yourself. If I strip it, it is an additional $6.00. If it has e-ex on it, I usually leave it unstripped (unless the previous clear is severely compromised) scuff the e-tex up some, prime, paint and clear. My clear is thin, and the added weight of it does not affect the weight or balance of a bait.
Edited by muskynightmare 3/13/2007 11:18 AM
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Location: Rhinelander. | Glad I'm out of the busines with the great paint jobs out there. Very nice work. Its a shame to fish some of them> I really don't think the elaborate paints jobs are need to fool the fish however. If it were so explain why so many fish caught on an all black bait. tHE PAINTS JOBS SOME OF YOU ARE DOING SHOULD BE GOING ON THE WALL AS ART!!!!!!!!!
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