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| So I know to use mesh to get the scale effect, and I've done so pretty successfully ... but I run into problems sometimes with the mesh either not being tight enough to the body or shifting and smearing the paint. Common problems, I'm sure. I've come up with various ways to prevent this, and the best one I've found it to fix the lure to a cork board and use push pins to hold the mesh over the top of the lure. But there's got to be a better way to achieve consistent results. Any tips? Thanks!
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Location: nationwide | Try clothes pins or small spring clamps. Wrap the material around the lure and pinch tight with the clamps, spray and after a minute or two remove the clamps and material.
This was a tip from a couple other lure makers.
I am by no means an expert but in my crude little world of lure making it seems to work.
Hope it helps.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | I put my mesh in an embriodery hoop, and hold it against the body while sparying.
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| The hoop is the hot scoop!
I have a board set at about a 30 degree angle with different sets of finishing nail heads sticking out of it to hold the lure in place, then place the hoop over the lure and push down tight and spray.
Need to find a bigger hoop than the one that I have for big lures.
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Good old furring strips at the local lumber yard.
I run the furring strips through the tablesaw and cut to about an inch and a half wide. I make rectangular frames to whatever size I need and make them 1 1/2 deep. Then staple netting down with a T_50 staple gun. I draw the netting as tight or loose as I want it. When I can't clean the net anymore I pull the staples and replace it again. The frames last a long time.
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Stan,
I respect your work. I think it's awesome.
With that having been said, I like a net that's full of paint in certian aplications. Sure, new netting is nice for some applications, but one that's been around the block has it's uses too. |
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Location: Central Part of no-where but not far enough away!! | I have been making lures of one type or another since 1987. I have struggled the same as most everyone with scaling. This is what I use and do with what I use.
I use both emboidery hoops of many sizes and also hand made wood frames. Regardless of which, I clamp the "netting with frame/hoop" in a cheap vise. I always paint and Epoxy wearing disposible surgical gloves. I place my lure on a long screw that you can buy at any hardware store. This is my handle, just don't use too thick of a screw so as not to damage the nose or tail end of the lure. Wearing gloves I then hold the lure to be scaled behind the netting making ever so slight contact with the net. Then back off a fraction. I hope you don't shake or you may have to rest your arm on something to steady your hold. Then I spray the lure as needed. Now, here is a good tip. Don't spray head on. Spray your lure at a slight angle either downward or upward which ever is easiest for you. This will give you that light misting toward the belly area or any area where you want the scale finish to end. Now, this will cover about 1/3 of the lure ( round bodied ). If you want to continue around the lure but don't want to wrap the bait in the netting (I do this method also) you can rotate the bait behind the netting and spray at that same slight angle in the opposite direction of what already has scales. A couple of trys is all it takes to get good results so practice on something of junky status. Keep rotating the lure until it has scales as far around the body as you may want. An alternate method is to scale both sides using the above method and then just give the back a solid stripe of some color for contrast. That method also gives that feathered look to the lure edges.
I hope this may be useable to someone.
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Rob,
Thank you for the compliment.
On the nets, I thought I was the only one who would stick with a "dirty" net.
I have several setups in different stages of being "paint dirty" for different applications. But for some, I use fairly clean nets and most of the time when I change netting is because of alot of use and the netting tears.
I agree with you on the use of "dirty" nets for most jobs. |
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