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The Craft of Fishing Gear => Lure & Rig Crafting Board => : Latimeria April 27, 2015, 02:22:42 PM
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I'm losing my mind during this recovery process, so I've been looking for ways to get my fishing gear in order to prep for my return.
I saw that all of my lead heads in my plastic swimmy box were just unpainted gray lead heads. My daughter has a bunch of nail polish on her dresser, so I decided to look and see if any of the colors would work for what I needed. I also found some glitter from my younger daughters art projects at school and quick rounded everything up to begin work.
I had some spare eyes in my crafting box, but they wouldn't attach to round heads, so I fixed that problem.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110161_zps7vrkz9jr.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110161_zps7vrkz9jr.jpg.html)
Perfect eye size!
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110164_zpskvachhto.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110164_zpskvachhto.jpg.html)
I painted each with some different colors and clears and then sprinkled some glitter on the top before it dried.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110166_zps1cvxsqki.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110166_zps1cvxsqki.jpg.html)
I put on another coat and attached the eyes.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110167_zps6qixqrko.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110167_zps6qixqrko.jpg.html)
I tried to match some of the colors I had in plastics to make it all look like one neat little bait.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110170_zpsl6lgoohb.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110170_zpsl6lgoohb.jpg.html)
Here are a few of the colors I painted up. The nail polish gets super hard, so should do well when fishing the bays.
Brown with a few different scale effects.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110208_zps2oinbe21.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110208_zps2oinbe21.jpg.html)
Reds
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110209_zpsvrhr7fpc.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110209_zpsvrhr7fpc.jpg.html)
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110214_zpsjxzxegee.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110214_zpsjxzxegee.jpg.html)
Clears and Blues...
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110210_zps3dt8azjj.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110210_zps3dt8azjj.jpg.html)
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110212_zpsau1wbh86.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110212_zpsau1wbh86.jpg.html)
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110196_zpszv4h8lg2.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110196_zpszv4h8lg2.jpg.html)
Even if they don't work, I got some good looking leads! ;D
Well my bay box is all together and I'm going to test my back in another 2 weeks. I'll start small before moving back up to the big game in the surf.
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q733/Latimeria3/P1110217_zpsgtup4tvv.jpg) (http://s1356.photobucket.com/user/Latimeria3/media/P1110217_zpsgtup4tvv.jpg.html)
If you couldn't tell, I am bored out of my mind and don't watch much TV.
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Lol!!!! Some of my best work comes out when I'm bored! Digging your "bored" posts. If I ever get bored enough, I'll try my hand at wrapping a blank I have sitting in the garage for the 1st time.
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Wow. Hope you didn't loosen the books in the lead. Hate to see you come back with just the eye tied on. ;)
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Wow. Hope you didn't loosen the books in the lead. Hate to see you come back with just the eye tied on. ;)
They're good, but there's only one way to really find out!
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LOL .... this is classic.
;D ;D