Painting Jig Heads

[dmorgan66]

This is how I paint jig heads. I bought a 100' roll of 3/32 heat shrink tubing. You can get it at hardware store but buying it in bulk is much cheaper. I cut pieces approx 1/2" long and slip it over the eye. Get 1/8" drool rood and cut pieces approx 1/2" long. Stick a piece into the hole in head for weed guard. Heat, dip into powder paint and hit your pillars, I use hemostats which lock, on the top of the paint container. Pinch off the tubing, pull out the drool rod, which you can reuse several times, and hang up to cool. No paint in weed guard hole or in hook eye. (I know pic is to big but.....)

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip!

[NWAbassinAC]

I like the shrink tubing over the eye idea. I've found that if you don't get the eye too hot it won't fill with paint, but some head styles are easier to do this with than others. As far as the hole for the weedguard, Teflon base hole pins are the way to go. However, you can still use the aluminum ones if you just barely set them in the head prior to heating and dipping.

I'll have to use your shrink tubing idea for open ended hook eyes for chatterbaits.

[Smallieguy87]

Was just looking for some good tips on painting jigs since I seem to be to picky to settle for store bought painted jigs. Thanks for the tips Morgan!

[DChance]

you can buy teflon pins for the weedguard hole which work great, but thanks for the tip on the jig eye. that will come in handy.

[rFisherk]

Clever.

[Dutch]

If you hold the jig by the hook eye with needle nosed pliers or hemostats you won't get any paint on the eye either and don't have to use the shrink tube. The Teflon pins are the way to go. You can leave them in the head while you bake the paint on them just pull them out when you take the jigs out of the toaster oven.

[dmorgan66]

I have tried holding the jig with hemostats, and needle nose pliers, on the hook eye and I get powder paint all over the pliers and in the eye. That's just my experience. Then I wind up trying to clean that up and ensure there are no sharp edges in the eye to cut the line.

[Dutch]

So do how you heat your jig heads? Do you hold them with the pliers or hemos while you are heating them?

[dtrs5kprs]

Or there is the easy way. Mold in the fiber, drop (tight) aluminum tubing over the fiber, heat in the oven at about 225-250, dip, clean the eye, give the tubing a twist to loosen any paint, cure at the same temps with the tubing in place. Can paint hundreds quickly.

A lot of guys use the side of the hot pot to fuse the fibers on the loose end before fitting and pouring the head as a measure to prevent the guard from splaying out. Have found the guard goes through the heating just fine if left open, better in fact. When both ends were fused I would get some twisted fibers, but have not had that with the end left open. Either way it is a little silly to worry about when most of us spread the fibers anyway.

You do need to increase your cure time due to the lower temps.