Lure Making

[tinnieboy]

I was in Rocky on the weekend and visited the Home & Leisure Expo, One of the exhibits was a guy called "Adam the Hook" who had a demo on lure making. I bought the package he was selling for $20 which included a manual and other info on making your own lures.
My concern is that the lures are made from a poly-resin mould, has any one else had any experience in making lures from poly-resin and if so how did they go? I have previously made lures from timber with great success....just affraid of change maybe

Cheers Trent

[luigi]

G'day Trent,

Stick to timber mate, (I gotta say that ay! ) a good wooden lure will generally run rings around any of those damn plastics - soft or hard.

[Needmorerum]

Trent, how was the home show, I wanted to go but headed of shooting (oops, did I say that word) on the weekend.
The ads were saying he was going to show you how to make a lure for under a dollar. I was picturing a treble attached to the end of a tea spoon.
Wouldn't have minded seeing what was on offer.

Corry

[tinnieboy]

The show was nothing compared to what Mackay had earlier on in the year but still worth a look. Yes he did show you how to make a lure for under $1 but the thing was you would have to knock up about 100 or so to get the cost down to that.
The method was to pretty much take a mould of a lure and reproduce it many times over using poly-resin. Had another look at his book today and I think it may be worth a try but it is a lot of $ to buy the ingredients you need to kick off.
Cheers Trent

[bay_firey]

Corry

The cost of fuel would have been a waste if you had driven up for the Home Show.
You have done much better by going off flinging metal projectiles through the air at high velocity

I went mainly to compare and buy a rider mower (need one when I move house on Tuesday) Bugger me dead only 2 crowds their and both from Yeppoon.

Fair dinkum I will not waiste my money next year

[Needmorerum]

Oh well, it sounds like the typical CQ shows, doesn't matter what they are, there is more hype about them before hand and they never deliver the hopes on the day.
I kept telling myself on Thursday night while driving through Rocky, 'they've never been worth it, they've never been worth it', sounds like I wasn't far wrong.

Corry

[tinnieboy]

Would anyone out there have made lures using either poly-resin or plastic from moulds? if so could I get a bit of advice as I am keen to give it a shot as I have a few ideas I would like to try.
Trent

[McCod]

May be able to help out... have made over 100 lures from poly-resin from 7 molds. It is rewarding when ya catch fish on them and the hip pocket don't hurt as much when loose one . As you can make another for 2 or 3 bucks.

Cheers Les

[ancienttinnie]

Have made over a hundred lures using urethane and silcon moulds, bought a kit from a mob in Melbourne. It had everything you need including wire and polycarbonate for bibs. Depending on the size of the lure you make it can get cost down to about sixty cents per lure before you paint and rig it. It is not hard if you are just after a few cheap copies but to produce a quality lure or copy you must understand the relationship between weight and action and bouyancy. Once you get that right it is just a case of turn them out one after the other. The moulds should be good for three hundred or so lures and the main part of the cost after that is the poly to fill them. I have alos made lures using a commercial expanding urethane and that was more trouble than it was worth. the kit I bought was very good if you have made a good wooden prototype and are wanting a few more identical to it. Often the hardest part is getting the polycarb sheet to make your bibs and cutting the bibs identical. Laser cutting is expensive and hard to get good work done.
If you are making lures like that be patient, make one and go and test it check it for performance agaisnt the original, check the weight of the original and also check balance against original ie does it float in the same position as the original. If you have many more queries send me a pm and I will see what I can do to help.

[T-REX]

Trent,
Bought what I believe is the same kit and outlayed $130.00 for the materials to give it a go. I was able to make two moulds from the 1 kg of silastic 3481 using old water bottles and turned out about 20 lures of which only 6 or so were any good. I think it is trial and error depending on the lure you choose to copy. Only make one and see if you can get it to swim properly. Don't bother painting it or doing to much to it unless you get it to perform. Make sure you build up the bib by sticking something like double sided tape to it and trimming it to shape as this is an area which loses thickness in the moulding process. Also the bouyancy of the lure will directly effect how well it performs. It will take a while to perfect a working lure consistently. Ancienttinnie is on the money and seems to know how it is done. Pm me and I will be glad to help.

[Flounder]

Yeah, stick to timber dude. I agree with Luigi.