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| I have some dawgs I want to paint eyes on, maybe even customize a little, what kind of paint to people use, and do you just brush it on?, do you have to clear it after? |
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| Alumadust thore bros sells it. |
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| did u mean thorne brothers? and if so I cant find it on there website
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | you can get it from alumilite corporation's website too. Mike from alumilite and i think dahlberg have made some videos about using it, probably would work on any soft plastic. Just paint it on how you want it as if it were paint, and melt it on using a heat gun.
http://www.alumilite.com/Category.cfm?Category=Support%20Products |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Yep it's from alumalite but thorne brothers and blue ribon baits should both have it also. Was at thornes a few weeks back and they had some and Josh from blue ribon gave a seminar mon night and they have it available also! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Is the alumalite the paint that you just dip the soft plastic into?
I have one at home, I would have to look and see what the brand is. But I use it to dip the tails of my bulldawgs in. It works well, but I don't even know if it is for soft plastics or not. I guess I only care that it works. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | Fat-ski the alumidust is a powder you brush on then use a heatgun to melt it just enough for it to react. |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | Thanks wicked, thats what I was looking for.
But if you are going to use that on soft plastics, would it not melt part of the head for the guy wanting to use it on eyes??? |
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Location: Grand Marais, MN | FAT-SKI - 4/3/2013 10:48 AM
But if you are going to use that on soft plastics, would it not melt part of the head for the guy wanting to use it on eyes???
it really doesnt take too much "melting" with the heat gun, just enough to get the places where the alumidust was applied to get tacky and just barely starting to melt so that the alumidust adheres to the surface of the bait.
havent personally used it on bulldawgs, but i would bet you could do some nice detail work with it |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | cool, I'll hafta look into that, thanks for the info |
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| Here is the link to Thorne's website as well as the video Larry Dahlberg did for them showing how its done.
http://www.thornebros.com/shop/pc/Alumilite-c1679.htm |
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Location: Northern Illinois | I have one of the cheaper bulldawgs without the painted eyes and I was thinking about using a permanent marker to blacken the pupils of the eyes. However, I just watched the Dahlberg video and they say to use a dry erase maker for the touchup. Seems counter intuitive - does anybody know why this is? |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | mm3 - 4/3/2013 9:33 PM
I have one of the cheaper bulldawgs without the painted eyes and I was thinking about using a permanent marker to blacken the pupils of the eyes. However, I just watched the Dahlberg video and they say to use a dry erase maker for the touchup. Seems counter intuitive - does anybody know why this is?
I can't say for sure, but my assumtion would be that permanent marker will bleed into the rubber. It did happen on an old bait of mine. it was a rubber swim bait, it was gold with black markings. the black was all uneven and looked junky IMO. so I took a permanent marker to it and it looked great. Even boated a fish. but after a while of using it the black start to engulf the whole bait. I could tell black was getting through the rubber somehow. I stopped throwing that bait now because I think it's ugly. I know, im sure the fish don't care, I just don't throw what I consider ugly lures. I feel as if I have less confidence with them.
who knows, it could be the smell too |
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| The Alumadust is definitely a solid option.
However, for the stuff you are talking about doing, I'd use the Spike-It Paints. These are very easy to use and come in a variety of traditional fishy colors. They come in small "nail polish" sized containers. For small touch ups or alterations this stuff will do the trick. It won't require a heat gun or anything like that and you can store it in your tackle box. If you want to do a full on paint job of a bait then the dust is probably the better choice. |
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Location: sneaking out to get on the water ;-) | The pemanent markers or sharpies continue to bleed so the little spots you make will continue growing on you. We used the dry erase with the alumdust and heating and it worked great. |
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Location: Plymouth, MN | I may have missed it in one of the other replies, but here is where you find the alumilite on the Thorne Bros.' site. You need to go to the lure repair page.
http://www.thornebros.com/shop/pc/Lure-Repair-c1407.htm |
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