basscat73

Thanks. This mold was fairly simple since it was just one tail. I'm looking at the pictures of the molds posted above and I'm wondering how do you go about pouring into a mold that has multiple appendages or fork tail and such? I'd be worried about the first part I poured into cooling too quickly. And the bubbles after the pouring is finished, what's the trick to getting rid of them? This is an awesome site and set of forums, by the way. I'm looking forward to coming back again and again!

Thanks all for the help. Made my first pour tonight and it worked out okay. I'll try and post a picture. Not very pretty to the human eye, but I know I'll find a bass among the slop and pads that will love it! Getting the plastic to the right temp was key. It was fairly easy after that. I used a hairdryer to heat the tail part of the mold and it helped to give me a little more time to work the plastic. Probably won't be necessary when I get better at pouring, but it did make a difference for me. One question. I noticed I had little air bubbles rising to the top after I poured. Does this mean the plastic was a little too hot or?? How do I prevent this? Cedar1, it's definitely going to become a hobby.

Great thanks. Would it be wise to have some type of thermometer? As you guys said, the plastic needs to be hot, which will make it thinner and prevent it from cooling so quickly and allowing the material to have more time to spread. I was thinking about that more. I'm using plaster molds, I wonder if I heat the mold up in the oven just before puring the plastic. Pouring into a warm mold would slow the cooling even more, which would give me more time to work the material into the tail. Thoughts??

I am working on making my own plastic bait. It's my first attempt at doing and I'm not starting out with a super simple mold. It will be a custom mold that I made. It's similar to a plastic lure called the Salad Spoon. Anyhow, it has a fat body and then tapers into a large grub-type tail. The lure is flat on one side, so theoretically I only need a one-part mold to pour into. I haven't recieved my order of plastisol, so I did a trial pour by melting down a bunch of old worms. My problem was that the liquid was not thin enough and didn't fill the tail cavity very well. That might've been because of the abundance of glitter in it. My question how do I get the liquid plastic to fill nicely into the very thin grub tail cavity? Are there any tricks to this? Thanks in advance for any tips.