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I have poured a bunch of bank sinkers in the past using the cast iron pot and ladle method. I had collected a few molds off e-bay over the past 6 months and put some hooks together to come up with some deep water jigs to mess with. Santa was nice to me a I got a Lee pro 4-20 melter, so it is easier to work with. I have used lead head jigs in the past with either bucktail, marabou or soft plastics that I made myself from factory heads. Larger sized heads are hard to find with light hooks so I wanted to make some to my specifications. Though I would share what I have had cooking so far:

Pictured on the left is a 1 oz 5/0 with #7 barrel swivel for attaching a blade., 1 oz stand up erie with a 4/0 heavy wire & 4/0 light wire hook.
On the right is a 2 oz spoon, 1.5 oz spoon and 3/4 Hopkins for size comparison.

Good work with those jigs and spoons. They look very nice.

if we had safe ice we could try them out.

Are you dipping them into powder paint for colors?

I have played around with the powder paint. I am using a toaster oven I got from a garage sale for $5.

The lead heads are easy to coat, but the spoons are much more difficult do to their size.

I base coated in white and used pro tec glow green on some of the spoons but wasn't happy with the glow layer. Will post some pics later.

I will hook you up with some Targa

pro tec super glow green over a white base coat at 20 seconds under black light. Comes out with a mottled look.

nice job harry.

Hairbone wrote:I have played around with the powder paint. I am using a toaster oven I got from a garage sale for $5.

The lead heads are easy to coat, but the spoons are much more difficult do to their size.

I base coated in white and used pro tec glow green on some of the spoons but wasn't happy with the glow layer. Will post some pics later.

I will hook you up with some Targa

Sweet! Thanks for the response. The lead heads look great.