This video is the third video of a series in which I will make a custom bass jig from scratch. I will be designing and fabricating the jig from the ground up. Using only a jig hook, a fiber weed guard and a skirt collar I will try and replicate a common largemouth bass jig in the football head style.
In episode 1 I used Autodesk Fusion 360 to design the mold that will house the weedguard and the hook where I will then pour in a two part urethane plastic around bird shot to create a pseudo lead head design. The jig will be designed with a plastic keep that will hopefully help hold on a soft plastic trailer that I have previously designed (in other videos on this channel).
If you are interested in watching that video you can see it here:
• Making a Bass Jig with...
In episode 2 of this series I printed the jig mold on the Anet A8 3D printer and then set the mold with Mold Max 60 by smooth-on. I then poured out individual jig heads with integrated weedguards, I also made 2 additional molds. One of the extra molds will be used in the future to make lead jig head versions of the football head jigs. The second mold is a 3 cavity mold of the same jig head which allows me to make 3 jigs at a time. I used number 8 lead shot shell shot to weight down the jig heads and the end result seems to work well.
I poured these jigs with a two part urethane from Smooth-on called SmoothCast (320) of the 300 series which cures extremely fast in about 10 minutes and allows the mold to produce multiple jigs very quickly.
If you are interested in watching that video you can see it here:
• Weighted plastic fishi...
In this episode I will make skirt material out of a two part silicone and cut the skirts with a homemade skirt cutting tool. Using rotary blades I will cut skirts with a multi tool that I have designed in Fusion 360 and printed on the Anet A8 3D printer. The skirt material will also be pigmented using different pigments in the slicpig line of Smooth-on pigments (not sponsored). I will also be designing a skirt threading tool that will allow the skirt band to be placed over the skirt material before threading the whole jig skirt on to the jig itself.
I have had a lot of success catching largemouth and smallmouth bass with a skirted weedless bass jig presentation in the past and I constantly lose them in snags where hard to reach big bass live. I decided to design this mold (mould) in Autodesk Fusion 360 because I was sick of paying premium prices for something as simple as a reaction based fish presentation.
Overall I think the 3D printed space will greatly help custom lure makers by decreasing the amount of prototyping and time spent during design. I have been very pleased with the results I have been able to achieve in just a short time making custom lures with a 3D printer.
25 июл 2024
