Making bucktails

[scottw]

Hey Beaver, I've been playing with the bucktails for the last couple of days, very crude set up as you can see, made a vise out of stuff laying around along with my bobbin holder(which actually works great) and "modified" my spinner to hold the bucktails , this is going to be a regular activity I think, lots of fun, pretty simple and very enjoyable......don't know that the stripeys will spot the difference from an off the shelf Andrus but who cares what they think

[beaver]

Nice set up Scott. I particularly like the bobbin. I haven't been spinning mine so the epoxy looks pretty busch league, but I don't think the bass will mind.

I haven't been too busy with the bucktails. Hoping to pump some out in the next couple weeks.

[dannyplug1]

Scott how do you get the eye on the jig and what do you coat it with? Is it like an envirotex like you would use on a plug? And to get it smooth you put the clear coat on and put the jig on a spinner? thanks Charlie

[scottw]

I bought stick on eyes..I'm pretty sure they have small ones at SWE...I hit the paint with some fine sandpaper and used some flexcoat that I had left over, I'm sure etex would work fine, also added some(use just a little) macro pearl and some metallic powder depending, I hung them on my plug spinner by the hook with a wire at the other end for the best result, I really like the way that the unpainted jigs turned out with just flexcoat and some metallic pigment