Foil tutorial needed

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Please

Lots of pics if possible

[Thad]

Here you go:

http://www.stripersonline.com/surftalk/showthread.php?t=451017

Great detail.

[.dsaavedra.]

thats a great looking bait in that thread!

if by "foil" you meant photo finishing, here is another tutorial you might be interested in, its the one i learned to do photo finishes from:

http://www.tackleunderground.com/forum/hard-baits/7671-photo-finishing-foil-faux-finishes-tutorial.html

[TexFishin]

I used that tutorial for my first attempt and it went alright.  What kind of glue are yall using to glue the tissue to the foil and then foil to the bait?

[.dsaavedra.]

I used that tutorial for my first attempt and it went alright. What kind of glue are yall using to glue the tissue to the foil and then foil to the bait?

paper to foil: spray glue

foil to bait: i use foil tape, so i dont have to use any glue.

[TexFishin]

Ok when you say foil tape do you mean like foil duct insulation tape?  Not duct tape as most people think.  Where do you get it?  

[.dsaavedra.]

yes its actually aluminum (metal) on a roll with adhesive on one side. not duct tape.

i think i got mine at some hardware store, probably either True Value or Lowes.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

How do you print on tissue paper?????  

I was originally asking about the swims dsaavedra made, the bluegill one.  I thought that was a "foil" job.

This stuff is cool too though

[TexFishin]

Printing on tissue paper is covered in that tutorial but what you do is cut a piece roughly the size of a piece of printer paper, then glue the tissue paper to a sheet of printer paper on the edges only.  When you print just make sure the image is in the center of the paper.  After it is printed simply cut the image out and you have a image printed on tissue paper.  At least thats how i do it.

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Cool.

Thanks everyone

[.dsaavedra.]

yup, what texfishin said is aboslutley right.

but there is a trade off to printing on tissue paper vs. regular paper.

when you print on tissue paper and glue it to foil, the plus side is you get a reflective bait, but the downside is you really lose a lot of detail when you print on the tissue paper

when you print on regular paper and glue it to foil, the plus side is you get much better detail, but the downside is it is not reflective.

i personally prefer printing on printer paper and gluing it to foil tape and applying it to the bait for two reasons:

1: i find regular printer paper is easier to hadle and work with than tissue paper.

2: it gives better detail.

you may be wondering "if regular paper won't be reflective on foil, why put it on foil?"

i put it on foil tape because i have found that when i try to just glue paper straight onto the bait, it does not want to conform to the contours of the bait, and it won't stick right.

when i glue the paper to the foil, the foil will conform to the bait and hold the contours, and the tape is super adhesive.