Help pouring swimbaits and jigheads.

It is expensive to start out, but quickly pays for itself.

1.00 is very high for a swimbait cost.  It is more like 25-50 cents.

The key things about making your own baits:

1. FUN!
2. Completely custumizible (plastic hardness, color, style etc.)
3. Cheaper (not free but cheaper than commercial)

I think 1 and 2 are what make people pour their own baits rather than 3..

MolBasser

Agreed.  The initial outlay for molds is a semi-fixed cost(may need replacing after some time) & your per lure cost is based on the plastic/glitter/color.  The cost of the molds isn't spread out over 100, but divided by however many you end up making throughout the life of the molds.

like molbasser said, 1 & 2 are the real keys.  especially 1.  it'll give you something besides battlefield1942 to do during the winter months 

It is expensive to start out, but quickly pays for itself.

1.00 is very high for a swimbait cost.  It is more like 25-50 cents.

The key things about making your own baits:

1. FUN!
2. Completely custumizible (plastic hardness, color, style etc.)
3. Cheaper (not free but cheaper than commercial)

I think 1 and 2 are what make people pour their own baits rather than 3..

MolBasser

Agreed.  The initial outlay for molds is a semi-fixed cost(may need replacing after some time) & your per lure cost is based on the plastic/glitter/color.  The cost of the molds isn't spread out over 100, but divided by however many you end up making throughout the life of the molds.

like molbasser said, 1 & 2 are the real keys.  especially 1.  it'll give you something besides battlefield1942 to do during the winter months 

  Whats wrong with Battlefield 1942? 

I have a couple old backpacking stoves that I was thinking of trying out to heat the plastic but I was wondering what you experienced guys use?

It is expensive to start out, but quickly pays for itself.

1.00 is very high for a swimbait cost.  It is more like 25-50 cents.

The key things about making your own baits:

1. FUN!
2. Completely custumizible (plastic hardness, color, style etc.)
3. Cheaper (not free but cheaper than commercial)

I think 1 and 2 are what make people pour their own baits rather than 3..

MolBasser

Agreed.  The initial outlay for molds is a semi-fixed cost(may need replacing after some time) & your per lure cost is based on the plastic/glitter/color.  The cost of the molds isn't spread out over 100, but divided by however many you end up making throughout the life of the molds.

like molbasser said, 1 & 2 are the real keys.  especially 1.  it'll give you something besides battlefield1942 to do during the winter months 

  Whats wrong with Battlefield 1942? 

All about Unreal Tournament.....oops there I go showing my gaming age...

MolBasser

It is expensive to start out, but quickly pays for itself.

1.00 is very high for a swimbait cost.  It is more like 25-50 cents.

The key things about making your own baits:

1. FUN!
2. Completely custumizible (plastic hardness, color, style etc.)
3. Cheaper (not free but cheaper than commercial)

I think 1 and 2 are what make people pour their own baits rather than 3..

MolBasser

Agreed.  The initial outlay for molds is a semi-fixed cost(may need replacing after some time) & your per lure cost is based on the plastic/glitter/color.  The cost of the molds isn't spread out over 100, but divided by however many you end up making throughout the life of the molds.

like molbasser said, 1 & 2 are the real keys.  especially 1.  it'll give you something besides battlefield1942 to do during the winter months 

  Whats wrong with Battlefield 1942? 

All about Unreal Tournament.....oops there I go showing my gaming age...

MolBasser

You old fart!   

I could have said Doom.

And I can.  I remember playing Doom multiplayer in grad school on our silicon graphics workstations.  It was an incredible pain to get all the machines networked for the game, but once it got going, wow!  That was back in 1994.  Ancient history in gaming.

MolBasser

I worked for SGI for 9 years (1990 to 1999) and my name is on about 11 chips use in their machines.

how's that for old school? 

I was lead programmer on 2 PS2 titles for THQ, MX 2002 featuring ricky carmichael and MXSuperfly.

J

Whats Doom?   

art it was a video game us cavemen played and the reason that floating point had to be integrated into CPUs instead of being on a second chip you bought separately!

J