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Lead Pouring Making your own baits
Posted by Swine:
Just curious to see if anyone has tried casting their own jigs and if they have had any luck.
One thing to look out for is using wheel weights vs pure lead ingots. You must have good ventillation when trying to melt wheel weights! The wheel weights have grease, adhesive, and also contain tin, which makes them harder and raises the melting point. The material that burns off of the wheel weights is extremely toxic. Just make sure you cast outdoors with ventillation!
Best bet is to try and find pig lead or pure 99.9% lead ingots to use for casting.
There is some good info on Do-It Molds website.
I've poured a hundred or so jigheads and they came out pretty well. The softer lead definately pours easier and cleaner.
You want to pour a few "practice" jigheads to get the mold up to temperature, then the castings will come out perfect.
There are some other molds out there for flipping and swim jigs. Skirts and tools are also available for making jigs.
Just thought I would throw this out there to see if anyone else is working on their own baits
Just curious to see if anyone has tried casting their own jigs and if they have had any luck.
One thing to look out for is using wheel weights vs pure lead ingots. You must have good ventillation when trying to melt wheel weights! The wheel weights have grease, adhesive, and also contain tin, which makes them harder and raises the melting point. The material that burns off of the wheel weights is extremely toxic. Just make sure you cast outdoors with ventillation!
Best bet is to try and find pig lead or pure 99.9% lead ingots to use for casting.
There is some good info on Do-It Molds website.
I've poured a hundred or so jigheads and they came out pretty well. The softer lead definately pours easier and cleaner.
You want to pour a few "practice" jigheads to get the mold up to temperature, then the castings will come out perfect.
There are some other molds out there for flipping and swim jigs. Skirts and tools are also available for making jigs.
Just thought I would throw this out there to see if anyone else is working on their own baits
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Permalink Reply by T Dot on
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i do none of that - but i do grow my own bait fish. it will be the big thing come next year.
watch out now! -
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Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on
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T,
Your hilarious man! Thanks for the info Buck, I'll need to make a trip over to your place for a pouring party! -
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Permalink Reply by islandbass on
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I would like to, but I do not have what I think would be significant venitlation in my garage and the Mrs. would probably not be happy.
I heard with wheel weights that some kind of process of removing the non lead material (can't remember what it is called) also has to be done.
What I would like to do some day is make some football jigs and find out if I can have made a custom Do-It mold drop shot mold. -
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Permalink Reply by Shawn O'Connell on
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I pour for myself quite a bit ... including football heads, tube heads, drop shot weights, shakey heads to name a few. I just lose to many baits too not do it and it is nice to choose what hooks you want to use. It is important that you try to find quality lead. Wheel weights do contain antimony and are not the best but I have used them.
One trick I have learned is I have an old melting pot that I melt all my lead in first. I then skim all the garbage off of the top and pour that lead into my good pot. It seems to help in my case anyway. You can also flux lead that is not good quality to get it to pour better. This does create a lot of smoke and odor so it is best to do outside or next to a window. -
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