| How to make plastic fishing lures is one of the easier | | | | otherwise you'll land up with 2 seams in your new |
| tasks when it comes to tackle making. It doesn't | | | | plastic fishing lure. One from the master and one |
| require a lot of tool, and the items required in order | | | | from your newly made mold. |
| to make them are relatively inexpensive such as liquid | | | | Ok before setting the master worm inside one half |
| plastic. Once these items are acquired you can make | | | | of the mold it is important to coat the worm in either |
| soft plastic worms and other plastic lures for pennies | | | | some Vaseline or vegetable oil. The purpose here is |
| a piece. | | | | so that the worm doesn't stick to plaster once it is |
| The most expensive part about how to make plastic | | | | fully set. Now carefully set the plastic worm into the |
| fishing lures is obtaining a mold. Molds are used to | | | | mold halfway. Again paying attention to any seams |
| speed the whole process up and they make a more | | | | that may exist on your plastic worm. |
| uniformed plastic worm. You simply pour the melted | | | | Next we need to make registration pins in the mold |
| plastic inside holding the mold at an angle to insure | | | | so that it will line up the way we want when it |
| the mold fills from bottom to top that way you do | | | | comes time to pour in our melted plastic. The easiest |
| not get any air bubbles inside your plastic worms. | | | | way here is to use some finishing nails I like to use |
| Then you let the mold sit to cool so that the plastic | | | | about 3 and set them into the semi set mold. Then |
| sets, then removing the plastic worm carefully place | | | | put the other half of the mold on top, clamp it |
| them inside a small container of water to finish | | | | together and let it set overnight to insure the plaster |
| cooling and curing. Adding things like glitter etc are | | | | fully sets. |
| ways you can jazz up your own homemade fishing | | | | All is not done yet, there are still a couple steps yet |
| lures. | | | | to do in how to make plastic fishing lures. Now after |
| But what if you don't want to bother with purchasing | | | | we have removed the master worm and the plaster |
| a plastic worm mold? Can you still make soft plastic | | | | is fully set you need to cut a sprue channel so that |
| lures? How to make plastic fishing lures without a | | | | you have somewhere to pour in the melted plastic. |
| commercial mold is not that difficult to do. Here's how | | | | Finally we need to seal the mold. Plaster is porous |
| I go about making a mold from common Plaster of | | | | and even if it's fully set you will have all kinds of little |
| Paris. The first step is to simply create the two | | | | leaks inside the mold if you do not take the |
| halves of the mold. You can use anything you like to | | | | precaution to seal your mold. Any kind of epoxy or |
| hold the plaster, aluminum foil, small cardboard boxes, | | | | mod podge will work. Don't get carried away just a |
| pie plates etc. The trick is to let the 2 halves partially | | | | light coat will do. Now our mold is finished. |
| set before actually creating your mold. I like to let | | | | As you can see how to make plastic fishing lures isn't |
| my molds set for about 30 minutes to an hour | | | | that difficult and there are creative ways we can get |
| depending on the thickness of the plaster. | | | | around the more expensive parts to making plastic |
| The next step in how to make plastic fishing lures is | | | | fishing worms by making our own molds. There are a |
| to use a master worm. Now a master worm can be | | | | few other pointer to make mention and you should |
| anything really, the easiest is to use a worm from | | | | be able to pour out your plastic worms without any |
| your tackle box or make one from modeling clay, | | | | trouble, and that is before pouring the melted plastic |
| either way works. If you do choose to use a plastic | | | | into the mold, coat the insides lightly with some |
| worm from your tackle box make sure as you set | | | | vegetable oil or Vaseline just so its easier to remove |
| the worm into one half of the mold to line up the | | | | the finished product. |
| seam on the worm with the top of the plaster | | | | |