What Technique To Use When Powder Painting

[The Rooster]

I want to get into powder painting lead worm weights for use in my lure making. I've read just about everything I can find on doing it, including fluid bed usage, and all. Without just spending a few hundred dollars on getting started, is there a way I can start with just a 2 oz. jar of powder and preheated lead sinkers? I was thinking of opening a paper clip up and using it to hold the lead and just swish it around inside the jar, then use the paper clip to hang it on a wire rack for baking in the oven. For preheating them, I could either use the oven, or I was wondering if a short dunk into boiling water might be enough, or a few passes over a candle flame? Any help is much appreciated.

[cadman]

Now if you want the cheapest alternative, spray paint them with a lacquer paint , air dry and move on that is the cheapest solution. When the paint wears off , dry and re-apply spray paint. If you want a quality finish then I would suggest powder paint. Yes you can start with  a 2 oz jar, heat your lead weight, dip in fluffed up powder paint, hang on rack  so you can bake the  weights for paint durability. I personally use a heat gun to heat my jigs and then a toaster oven to bake them. However, yes you can use a candle, and no you do not have to bake them, however to me this is a waste of time. If you want to do it right then get all the proper equipment to do a thorough job. You can always do a so/so job, but you will get a so/so results. You get out of it only what you put into it. This of course is your call. JMO.

 

Just some safety notes: Do not use your home oven you cook your food in for baking or pre-heating lead jigs. Don't jeopardize your health and anybody elses. Also water has no place with powder paint. The two do not mix.

 

My philosophy is this, do it right or don't do it at all. Not wanting to sound like a jerk, just sayin'.

[The Rooster]

Thanks for the reply. You don't sound like a jerk. For someone like me with no experience, it helps to know in absolute terms what works and what is just a bad idea.

Toaster oven works for baking them, eh? I will see what I can dig up. On painting them, I need to get it right the first time, as there won't be an opportunity to repaint them later. I'm going to use the worm weights as bodies on spinner lures, so once I put it on the wire and bend it to hold a hook, there's no taking it off again. So, I need to heat and dip in fluffed up paint, then hang on a rack and bake it (350 for 15 - 20 minutes?). I figure the candle will be good enough to heat them, since it's just to get them hot so the paint sticks. I'm assuming the baking process will be where it smooths out and hardens.

One more question. I have some color combos in mind where I'll need to apply paint on one side of the weight, and a different color, or even two, on the opposite side. I assume you do one color at a time. How do you heat them enough to put on the second color without messing up the first color?

[cadman]

PM me your phone number, and I will call you tonight and explain it to you better. If I wrote it all down, I would be writing pages and still not cover everything. Talking on the phone will be easier to answer all of your questions.

[keith71]

PM me your phone number, and I will call you tonight and explain it to you better. If I wrote it all down, I would be writing pages and still not cover everything. Talking on the phone will be easier to answer all of your questions.

Now that's a teacher.

[The Rooster]

Yes, and I sure do appreciate it, too. PM sent. I have some pressing circumstances at the moment that I explained in the PM that would prevent a call at the moment. I absolutely would like to have you call me on this though, probably in the coming week or two weeks.

[cadman]

I received your PM and do understand. Let me know when you're ready and if you have any other questions. PM sent.

[HookSetDon]

PM me your phone number, and I will call you tonight and explain it to you better. If I wrote it all down, I would be writing pages and still not cover everything. Talking on the phone will be easier to answer all of your questions.

 

hes the man alright!