In this video we continue with another lexan lure. I try to make a lure that has moving guts that you can see. www.amazon.com/shop/engineere... / engineeredangler pB5ReGuDlS... / engineered-angler-9424... / @engineeredangler
I've seen that particular swim pattern all too many times in my aquarium when fish have grown old and dying! This must be attractive to other fish in the area because they always attack the ill fish! Your lure could be a winner in my eyes. One thing is for sure 'You're never beaten', another great fascinating and educational video '... BIG THUMB'S UP.
Hey Franco. Love the lure design here. Great concept. I was thinking while watching, you still have a chance to make the dye and oil work before going with the BBs. My thought was similar to what you mentioned. Cut and shape all six pieces including the cavity, paint the interior pieces, resin all six pieces together and drill a hole to the empty cavity before putting on the turner to set. I think you need to completely build the bait with the hole into the chamber and paint it, plugging the hole to the chamber to keep the paint out (thinking maybe using a little cotton from swab), Polyacrylic and resin coat the lure a couple of coats. After everything is complete, open your hole and insert the oil and dye and seal the hole. My only concern is the plugging material and what to use to be able to get it out. The hole will need to breathe up to the end of the project I think. Just some thoughts. Very curious to what you decide. Love to see you figure this one out. Great idea.
To prevent the leaking you can also make an individual fluid chamber separately, and ensure you've completely sealed the fluid in before installing into a slot that you've then shaped within the lure body to the exact dimensions in order to cleanly receive that fluid chamber that you fabricated separately.
Glad to see you only had minimal damage from the storm. The build is a great concept for a lure design with the 3d effect. I’m wondering if some foil in the 4th layer will give it some flash as a fish attractor. There is always mistakes in perfecting new concepts. Keeps the challenges in the videos, keeps it real.
You could make an extremely tiny hole and use a syringe to inject the fluid and if you wanted to you could even have a thin rubber port so you can remove or add liquid to change buoyancy and color.
Nice lure. The copper scales look great. As you put in the bb's I was thinking make them red and 2 or 3 different sizes. And I think you should keep showing the failures. That's how we all learn isn't it. Hope you try it again.
Hey Franco, I have to be honest I'm not a big fan of music in videos but I concede that the music you have during the milling is pretty darned good for royalty free background. Well done with that, good choices right there. Sorry, the noise you add during the underwater test well not so much a fan there. I probably would have gone with 4 layers but the 5 turned out pretty nicely I probably would have realized too late that with 4 layers the screw eyes would be right in the glue joint "weak joint"... Don't feel bad about shaking the die with a loose cap I call a day like that a Tuesday, it's the kind of stupid crap I do on a regular basis. I would call that lure a great learning experience. Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. Love your channel please keep up the good work, they're very entertaining and well done!
Hi Franco, thank you for your very nice video and a very nice lure. I might recommend you, for your next attempt of this kind of lure, to use glycerin and water colored with liquid food additives. Also, fill 75% of chamber to overcome heating on UV lamp and liquid dilatation / pressure (being a narrow cavity and tall will act as capillary under Bernoulli effect). I will consider increasing the weight of lead ballast to compensate lower density of glycerin + air "gap". But, as always, after the war, plenty of heroes appear 😉! Best regards from Romania !
first of all... for a first effort...AWESOME! how about making the chamber longer... allowing for an air pocket for balancing the lure... then adding fine glitter to the oil... then the coloured water... glitter lava lamp... maybe even to the water... maybe even do 5 pieces of lexan w/ the middle piece being thicker... create the chamber... fill ... then the outer 2 can b added... shaped... pulled apart again... now you can have 3 sides per side to layer paint... assemble then put 2-3 clear coats... Your video certainly has gotten the creative juices flowing!
What about gluing it with clear epoxy, then you don't need the UV light and subsequent heat. I actually like that it rolls on it's side a bit, when did you ever see a dying baitfish that stays perfectly upright?
In my estimation,, another great build! And I wouldn't consider an initial attempt at something new a "failure"! It's only a failure if you don't learn anything and quit. To learn and continue is called experience! Is this a preview of the glass minnow lure?
As someone else mentioned. Using a two part epoxy that is not UV activated is more than likely a solution. I would try a slow cure like system 3. It will take a long time to cure but the faster curing stuff ie. 5 minute, tend to yellow fairly quickly. It's an interesting idea and what you wound up with will likely produce.
Really like this lure! and welcome back! Glad the storm damage was not that bad and you all are safe! Could you make the fluid chamber separate and glue it in after to avoid that in the future?
I don't think of mistakes as "fails" but rather as "discoveries" of what NOT to do 😉 After all, the exercise, positive or negative is still experience and knowledge that is good to have. Thank you for including them! I'm surprised how easy you could split the glue joint. But then, the surfaces were very smooth and "contaminated" with paint; might have been the paint/lexan interface that failed. When making kayaks I never sand the wood with finer than 80 grit to give the resin something to grip. You might want to try scuffing the lexan before painting/gluing. Curious, is there a reason you don't use a pair of alignment pins for registration in your multi-layer lures?
The bond between two painted but not sanded pieces is amazingly good if not contaminated with oil. But I sanded the two haves before regluing them at the end. And I will probably sand the two middle pieces from now on.
Great idea with the fluid inside and would possibly make the lure move stable. Could you not drill a small hole into the cavity put the fluid in, then plug up and re-coat it to make it totally waterproof. I never see it as a failure but a learning curve and as the under water footage showed it was like a dying fish and would certainly catch. Whilst making a comment Is just like to say I try not to use treble hooks, instead two separate books tied together with the barbs crushed. If I do use treble then again I crush the barbs which make unhooking easier and less damaging to the fish. I still have the same success rate but feel it's kinder to the fish.
Hey Franco, can you do a video with glow in the dark paint or a way to make a bait glow after clear coat. I’m trying to paint some lures for ice fishing but can’t seem to get them to glow. Even explain how companies get a lure to have UV and glow?!
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Maybe not what you planned but a good result nonetheless. Was that the repurpose project in Gainesville where you got the lexane? My wife and I love that place!
i really like the concept of this build. What is the thought behind using the alcohol? Is that just to work best with the dye you had? I would think a less volatile compound and something less likely to dissolve the resin would likely work better. I'm also curious about the oil. In my experience coconut oil will be solid at room temperature (below 76 or so). Is this a different sort of coconut oil?? I really like this one, I've been trying to think of a way to get a similar effect to cause the lure to continue to flash as it suspends
