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Just did a podcast interview with "Made to Cast". It aired today, talked about often asked questions and other lure topics. Here's the link if you want to check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/made-to-cast/id1634274370

I'm a simple guy, i see Franco and i automatically like the video

Most underrated lure making channel on RU-vid!

Just wanted to share something with you, I really enjoy your channel and the info you give us. I live in Fla. and now I'm 63 yrs.old my father was a avid salt and fresh water fisherman and in the early 60s started using a injection molding machine to make clear 2 part fishing lures which he would mold from live fish i.e. Pinfish and other Baitfish. the 2 sided body's were clear and he would put different insert's in i.e. silver foil and sometimes glitter and glue the body's together and then add the line tie and hook hardware. I always felt that he was way ahead of his time because i'm not even sure if Mirrolure was doing that at that time. Sadly because of having children and having to raise a family he was never able to expand on what he was doing or even market it. Remember at that time almost all lures were made of wood. He also dabbled in make plastic worms but the plastic at that time was not that soft but he still made some. I still wonder to this day what would have happened if he had the financial resources to continue and expand. It brings to mind the old saying that everything that is old is new again. Thanks for letting me share.

Awesome job the lure looks amazing. I think the paint job turned out perfect. Thanks for the lesson and I look forward to your next project.

I appreciate your detailed instructions, and seeing how much your skills have been honed.

Man that was awesome precision and attention to detail, thank you, great to watch

Best lure making channel on RU-vid...absolutely amazing.

looking good as usual on your making of lures, nice instruction how to do it, thanks again

Just wanted to say that I enjoy your videos. I build custom flyrods, rebuild vintage (bamboo) fly rods; tie bass, trout, and salmon flies, and have been making bass lures for about 30 years now. I know quality work when I see it. I enjoy your work. Good on ya!

Im a plastic modeler/Diorama builder. Always wanted to try my hand at this exact topic. Glad I found your page.

vary informational looking forward to watching your older vids to make a mold

That was another very informative video. I like that perfection and precision, precise like a surgeon.

Brother you are the king. you have solved all of my problems. I have spent a good 200.000 NZD on purchasing lures. Thank you brother LOVE your channel. Your channel does not deserve a like, It deserves a LOVE bro. Honestly

Not much to say, perfect creations.. Well done

Those came out looking amazing.

Simply brilliant, I loved the Rapala Glidin Rap for Pike I have a green chrome, 12 years old had dozens of fish also discontinued would love to make a run with some nature pike colours.

Just when you thought you knew something about fishing, Franco makes another Video.🐟🐟🐟

Thank you Sir! Really good one!

Thanks for sharing this video with us Franco :)

i wondered how they make these things!.. thank you... this was very informative!

This video and project turned out great! You are an excellent teacher. Thank you for the lesson

If you published a book on all your engineering calculations for building lures, I'd be at the front of the line to purchase one! I know what you're doing is simple for folks who have Degrees. But, I find it quite amazing how one can know so much about applying weight, and balancing a lure, before even so much as whittling the first notch!

That silver coat is amazing stuff! Great looking baits.

Who'd have thought that learning Arquímedes at school would be that usefull!!!

that was a very interesting video , well done

That was a nice duplicate. I have some baits that are no longer created that I would like to make and use. Great video. Thanks.

You answered the question perfectly franco thank you 👌 the duplicate lures look brilliant, would be interesting too see a video on making the same lure but scaled up to like 6 or 7" and then another video on how to adjust the new scaled up version into a jointed swim bait 👍👍 3 different baits all from the one original design 👍👍 keep em coming great content!

Love this video. You did a thorough explanation that was easy to understand

My first time watching your work. Very good!

Best lure builder on RU-vid 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😂

“just so you know rapala i’m not making copies of your lures and selling them on ebay for 50 dollars a piece.” “and I actually have a plastic formed stencil that i made a long time ago, that fits right on there” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I respect the hustle bro.

I don't fish didnt really grow up around water but i ended up liking the video making these doesn't seem complicated but its probably more expensive to get into then it looks especially if someone like me will try it out just because without a proper tool box very cool of you to share tho best of luck to you

Great job!

Amazing painting, your colors are spot on. I would love to be able to airbrush like that!!

Best channel for those looking to start with lure making. Great watch. Thank you! Can you give a few more details on how you actually do the silver plating?

Outstanding, I love the real silver plating. There are guys who troll for salmon and trout who swear by silver plated spoons.If you put a silver spoon and a chrome spoon next to one another you can definitely see the difference. Does it really matter? Who knows.

Nice work! I wish I can test a few of your lures, Maybe for pike, percb fishing.

I haven't gotten into making molds yet, but I am tucking away information just in case! I've seen you do that water volume displacement before, just haven't figured out how to plug it into my process to be able to use it. Starting to use your density per CM to calculate weight though.

Neat, glad you shared this, just carved a lure from Poplar and want it replicated.

Instant subscription! You speak my language love it!

Great video!

not all understood but very impresived by final result. You're too amazing, really. (from France)

Impressive Franco. I would like to see a side by side with the original. I have often considered doing this with a couple lures that are no longer in production, this is inspiring. Great video.

Stunning work.

Awesome video, Love using a variety of lures... So much work to make them' I did not know what was intaled... So I will from now on appreciate my lures by remembering what went in to them.... Fantastic video.... LOVE IT..... and subbed.... 😊❤

I like yours more than the original. Great video ++

leaned alot in just 1 vid..thanx alot!

Before this video got into it I want to say that I'm a person not too much into detail. Detail is something I've always not been too good at. I have engineers as relatives and I know there's much detail involved.

Thanks for the video. I actually have lures I don't use anymore because I'm afraid of loosing them because they don't make them anymore. It seems like if a lure works they discontinue it

I would so love to do this with a fire tiger husky jerk. They are so hard to find in stores anymore. But my painting skills just are good enough to reproduce that one of a kind color scheme. It's probably a confidence thing, but I can out fish just about every fire tiger variation with a rapala. I've tried the cheap lures I've tried the expensive ones, rapala fire tiger always wins, typically by over 5 to one, all other things being equal. Maybe someday I'll get the painting process figured out. That's a fantastic replica, you have to update us after on the water experiments and see if it fishes as well as the original. Great job!

Great video, good info. Lure test was missing!

im not going to lie ! I really enjoyed this video. Really cool set up and great look crank baits!!

Can't believe I stumbled across this particular video of yours. The Rapala Twitching Rap is my absolute favorite juvenile tarpon lure. They love it! I am dumbfounded that Rapala quit making such an awesome lure. The biggest problem with it is that I think it is made of balsa wood and is easily damaged. Especially by such an aggressive and hard fighting fish as the tarpon. Since they don't make it anymore it is the only lure in my box that I won't share. I've never used the chrome version though. If you want to test the effectiveness of your lure compared to the original send me a couple and I will put it to the test! Super cool and informative video.

What was that spray you used to get that silver finish? Nice content 👍

Amazing as always..turned out really cool..better then the original 🍻🎣

Wow I didn't know about the 3m sand paper👍

Countdown to 30k! LFG! (Should be 100k)

your work is better than the original and you are complete with the equipment seems that you master the creation of lure in fact you can get rich from it impressive engineering keep up and God bless ❤

That silver finish is wicked cool. Have you done a video showing that?

Franco, would you be willing to do a series on building a mold and casting a hollow body lure in two parts that you would glue together and be able to place weight and rattles in?

Another amazing lure. How does the silver plating work/ what technique do you use?

Definitely subscribing to this channel! I’m not an engineer yet, but studying mechanical engineering and I love to fish and am old enough to have seen some favorites discontinued. That being said, I just took Statics last semester and I’m trying to think about what little I learned regarding fluid displacement in that course to apply it to understanding your volume calculation. In that class, we only used that concept to focus on the forces applied to the submerged body by the water column above it and the water surrounding it by integration. How does the displaced water volume directly correlate to it’s weight on the scale? It seems like it would be pushed in all directions, not just the -y-direction measured by the scale.

Hey, I always appreciate your videos. They are very informative and detailed. But I am having trouble finding Allumilite Microballoons. And I was wondering while I am searching for another product, if there is a difference between Glass Microspheres and Phenolic MicroBalloon? Just wondering because, I don't see either name on the Allumilite container you used and I don't want to spend money on something wrong. Thanks in advance.

Yeah that lure busted alot of big marsh reds in my time,,, love , love it.

My man, why can’t you be my uncle! You are awesome and great video from fit to finish!

Hi Franco, Basically you showed as 2 main ways to calculate lures volume: 1-By math, through the density of a given material 2- by weight, submerge the lure in water, weighting the water displacement. In your videos you did this 2nd method in 2 different ways, as you are showing in this video or through a "pipe system". I tried to experimenting a lot doing multiple times volume measurement of the same lure through the above mentioned 3 ways and I always end up with differences of 1.5 to 2 grms between these 3 different methods. It sounds a lot, I was expecting smaller numbers, differences of less than a gr, my tests repeated several times proved wrong. "Big" differences like this are normal? Probably the volume calculation through material density is the more reliable method, what do you think? Thanks 🙏 a lot is never enough!!!!!!!

Any chance of trying out that hollow body frog? I think I went I little hard trying to sell the idea before before, but I really do think it would be a great video and it's a cool process. Really enjoyed this video looking forward to the next one!

I am not clear on what you used or how you got the chrome finish? What is the set up to get that finish?

Excellent instructions and clear know how. Only advice i would give is your video is very "bright" or really white. Try darken it a little, it hard to make out some of the details in the cups and lure when your making it.

After watching the vid I saw someone last week suggest adding a second ring between the lure body and hook I know this would change the weight but that could be calculated in when you're making a custom lure like this. The reason they said to add these was it of course makes the hook hang lower but also makes it so the hook can rotate almost 360⁰ and therefore the fish tend to stay on the hook better. What do you think about this?

Have you ever attempted swiveling hook hangers? I see alot of other handmade lures have them. But I don't seem to find them anywhere for sale. Just the swampo and barrel style swivels. What would be your approach to inserting them into a 2 piece mold?

👏👏👏 wow

I sometimes search on chinese market sites to find a cheap lures even though it would takes a long time to deliver. But unfortunately they don't copy those , or I can not find them.

Do you have a video on the chrome ingredient set up? Products etc

hi, i m asking about quantity of microballons that i should use when i cast lure with epoxy resine

Ill never complain about paying 14 bucks for a lure! Great job

@EngineeredAngler, How different are those lures made of Balsa wood or even a similar wood?

Have your ever painted a Paul brown corky, if you have what paint do you use and how do you seal it ?

I have a question. Wold using wax be an ideal substitute for clay when making molds?

Hello sir, first and foremost i love your videos. Have you tried SB paint on plastic? i purchased every color that Lureworks sold. I'm hoping that the SB airbrush paint that is designed to work with plastisol will work. I need that bright aluminum or chrome color for the internals of baitfish.

HI mate im in australia and im just wondering if you would sell the un painted planks for the rapala lure in this video?

Good as always, thanks so much! About polyuretan resin density, 0.9 x ml, How did you get this info, resin "user manual"? About spraying Chrome, could you please explain in details all ingredients Needed? Sorry to mind here where i am living we dont have easy products reperibility as over there in Florida, I found a spray Chrome set that works with the gun that you show, that takes 4 different chemical ingredients, 3 of them come with hardener. What about your system, how many ingredients, how many of them come with hardener? Thanks so much for your excellent work!!!!!!

I can't copy the favorite bait or find another one. It was made in the late 80s by strike king it's a buzz bait with a clear 3 blade prop out of clear plastic. I don't see any clear props on the market anymore. I still catch fish on it but I'd hate to loose it and not be able to get another one. Any help?

I've had other BPM baits ru-vid.comUgkxCbNOWAGmn6nfbCbJDmasvBq7J38KZNw2 before and they've pretty much always came through for me with the suskie smallies here and even with the walleye and pike, but I realized I didn't have an "in-between" pattern so this junebug one fills that role in no problem. it pairs up magnificently with a junebug Zoom Z-craw Jr that was trimmed a couple millimeters before the hook slots and rigged sideways for that fatter panfish side profile while still being a nice'n'compact presentation, a real power-finesse bait. Hell, it was so pretty I even bothered to fotosketch the pic into a watercolor painting image just to show you it's beauty! Even the blades are really well made, sure, they're not of Hildebrandt-level exquisiteness but look at the bead's reflection on the colorado blade, definitely well-made! The only "problem" spot it had was a bald spot in the skirt but it was nothing that I couldn't easily fix with a but of tuggin'n'shiftin' with the strands for a couple of seconds, besides that it is pretty minty!

Buenas tardes señor, que material usa?? Le pregunto porque no se inglés 😢

Çok güzel emek ve bilgi dolu bir çalışma olmuş. Kutluyorum. Mümkünse 9.6 gr yapılan ile avlanma videosu görebilir miyiz? Selamlar

Now the question is if it works properly 😊

You can’t buy that badger ghost golden yellow anymore in USA. Any other suggestions for a gold chrome? I’m literally buying every gold on the market and can’t find one I like.

Sir, can you please share more information about that silver plating you did? I REALLY want to learn it. Thank you!!

What is this microbaloons and what is this A and B components? Thanks

Brah- ill mow your lawn for a couple of those lures!! JK. Good stuff!!

I thought Mark Rober's channel was cool. Now I've found the pinnacle, engineering and fishing :)

Interesting do the rapala originals have silver on them or is it chrome?

Can we use epoxy primer as base coat on lure

Back again, dang unsubscribe algorithm Thanks for all you do sir

Hi I’m in the UK there’s a resin lure that’s been discontinued for about 10 years. Would you make me some similar lures if I sent you one. It’s not a complicated lure

how do you clean your air brush?

Здравствуйте, это супер!!!! Подскажите пожалуйста, как мне определить место куда я могу установить груз в моей копии, что бы получить игру по магии как у оригинала,? Форму воблера я отлил, по разнице в весе с оригиналом определил 6 грамм ( оригинал 45 грамм, отлитая копия 39), весь вопрос куда мне расположить шарик весом 6 грамм??? Спасибо.

What was your strategy for passing the PE exam? It’s hard asf, passing it is about on the level of someone finding out they go accepted to medical school, lol!