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use painters tape (the blue color stuff) to help hold the stencil in place, and make sure paint is dry before you move or you will smudge the pattern.  |
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Location: Verona, WI | Chris,
I use 3 types of stencils. First, I have purchased some taxidermy stencils from www.taxidermy.com. They are high quality stencils for bluegills, crappies, largemouth bass, and smallmouth bass. A little pricey but very nice. Lay the bait down, place the stencil on it, and spray.
Second, I make a lot of my own stencils using old milk jugs. Cut out the appropriate size stencil, mark your design on it with a Sharpie, and either cut it out with an Xacto knife or use a stencil burner. Lay it on the bait and spray. I am currently experimenting with “form fitted” stencils where I lay the bait down, put a piece of milk carton over the top of it, and then hit it with a heat gun. The milk carton shrinks to the exact size and shape of the bait which eliminates any over spray. The challenge I have found with this so far is cutting the stencil – when you heat it it becomes stronger and harder to cut a detailed pattern.
Lastly I have been using frisket which is basically a sticker that you can cut a design on. Trace the bait profile and any detail on the frisket itself and then cut out with an Xacto knife or stencil burner. This allows you to have a very detailed pattern on the bait. The downside is frisket cannot be reused so of you are going to turn out a bunch of lures it may be economical.
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Location: sun prairie,wi | shane,great ideas i am going to go try these myself...right now i am just poster board for my stencils but sometimes i get spray over....i love your ideas....
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hope the one you buy have a lot more details than the ones i saw on your website
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Location: Verona, WI | As Pepsiboy said, there's nothing here that I have done that should be too difficult to duplicate so here are a few examples of the 3 techniques.
Expensive stencils from www.taxidermy.com: The pictures titled "bluegill" used the bluegill stripe template, the Perch picture used the largemouth bass scale pattern, and the crappie used the crappie stencil plus the largemouth bass scale pattern as an overlay. Expensive option but a nice, detailed set of stencils
Milk jugs: Very inexpensive to use but more difficult to get very detailed. The Three Mile Island Perch was done with milk jugs.
Frisket: The Silver Perch pattern was done with frisket. Nice balance of ease of use and detail. I prefer the frisket because you can do a lot more detail. My problem is that I get half the frisket stuck to me.
Shane
Edited by ShaneW 4/12/2010 4:51 PM
(6 Inch Twolf - Silver Perch.jpg)
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 bluegill.jpg (28KB - 222 downloads)
Perch.jpg (65KB - 682 downloads)
crappie.jpg (31KB - 209 downloads)
6 Inch Twolf - Silver Perch.jpg (32KB - 169 downloads)
threemileislandperch.jpg (27KB - 210 downloads)
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| good job! btw when i was telling ya your website it was not your personal one
Edited by pepsiboy 4/12/2010 4:51 PM
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Location: Madison, WI | Shane,
Nicely said!
I cut my stensils myself using stensil material from Michaels or any plastic I get from purchasing items. A stensil burner can help a lot with detailed patterns depending on the material you use.
Shane, I'm going to give the milk jugs a try. Thanks (I sent yuou a PM) and I love the patterns you posted.
MS
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Location: Verona, WI | Has anyone ever used mylar? I see guys on Tackleunderground talk about it but I have no experience.
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Hey Shane,
I have been using mylar since I first started painting years ago. I buy it in big sheets , trace out the lure body to see how much i need to use than cut it a little oversize, draw my design and cut it out with an exacto knife. I use the pink mylar as it is a little heavier, It has a textured side and a smooth side. Spray on the smooth side. When doing alot of lures with the same pattern, I have two sets of templates made up then switch when the paint build up gets a little heavy . When the paint is dry, I peel it off. |
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Location: Verona, WI | Stan - where do you get the mylar from?
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Shane,
I still have a couple sheets from Back when I painted commercially. I got it from a template shop just across State lone in Ohio. Haven't tried to locate any here as yet but in any case a Stencil shop should be able to get it for you if they don't have it already.
Stan
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