Making 3D Printed Open Pour Molds for Soft Plastic Lures (The Reaper/Crayfish) 

Always great to see another 3d Printer making soft bait molds :) Well done good sir :)

These are great looking moulds. A little hint for your imbedded hook / weighted craws is to coat the lead with a thin layer of epoxy and letting it cure before you pour the plastisol around the jig head. This will stop the lead from reacting with the plastisol as time goes by and deteriorating into a pale mushy toxic goo.

0:41 - Skip the Intro 1:21 - Skip to the Cad Design 9:23 - Skip to the Print Settings 10:15 - Skip to the Actual Bait Pouring 17:23 - Skip to the Crayfish

Thanks for producing these videos Steve!

Have you thought to have 1.5 mm thick x 1.5 mm high outline go the bait stick up above your mold. Chamfer the outside edge of the outline lip to a point, almost like a cookie cutter, once you have over pored your mold the only thing you would need to do to remove or cut off the flashing is to turn the mold over and press it against something like dense foam ext... this would in essence trim all the flashing off for you...

Another reason to get a 3D printer!

Love the videos but I would take the extra steps to teach all lessons of bait making 😂 I’m new and would love to know everything there is to designing But great video and appreciate you spending the time to do these types of videos sir #Tightlines

Hello! Nice vid. I have been experimenting with machined and printed molds for a few years, do you use a release agent with the PLA? Or any other materials? Thanks!

Hello there Steve. Watched one of your videos and found it very interesting. It showed a soft plastic bait with a hook poured in it. I've been trying to find someone to possibly build me a couple molds of an old bait of a goby. I'm down to my last four. Was wondering if you were interested in maybe making a couple of them for me. If there is a chance I could send you one so you could copy it or send pics of it. I'm only asking for this mold for myself. It gives me a slight edge over the guys in my club. Need all the help I can get with these sticks. Lol Thanks Larry

Ok I think I have an idea to improve your baits...Why not print skeletons you can imbed in the baits? I was thinking the claws of the crayfish would be all the better if they had a little reinforcement . I was thinking a really thin Y shaped piece that would give just a little bit of riggity to the claws.

love your handy work my friend, is your design downloadable? Have you ever tried designing a zoom super fluke?

If you have lures you want to melt down but there all different colors can you melt them together?

Greate vids. I'm also designing and printing lures on my prusa. You were talking about creating an injection mold. Is that vid coming soon? I also want my finished baits look more shiny. Thinking about sanding the mold and applying a layer of epoxy to it.

Where to download the crawfish 3d template?

What do you use for layer height? They look very smooth. I’m guessing around .1mm ?

Is PLA fine for mold printing? What is the temperature of the plastisol?

Hello, what 3D machine do you use and also what material you use to to make the actual pour mold ?

So, what exactly is the product you are using to pour? What kind of soft plastic?

Hi what size jighead I ordered some and they don't fit the mold. Thanks

I cant access you webpage

Hi, share the cray fish lure mold files ?

Would you be interested in making some custom molds?

How many inch is the crawfish?

PLA works fine?

Loose the photo. Just freehand it.