home made shads

[shadstu64]

well thats it the last of my home made kyopto copy shads going into my box ...made these for perch using lure factors kit over a year ago made around 120 odd ,, with losses and giving a few too freinds and fish destroying them its the last ...caught me many perch and small pike ..and karl had a nice trout on one of them last sunday at toft .....

[gbthejoiner]

How do you go about making the colours blend in on the tails, brought one of Marks kits myself yet to give it a go so any info would be useful

[philpot]

Now we know where your forum name comes from Stu

Phil

[shadstu64]

jbthe joiner ...simply pour colour ie orange in to tail first ...then body colour ..id practice pouring full colours first before trying anything tricky .....ok this is my set up ..i have an alumiunum strirring stick x 2  microwaveable pyrex (must use ) jugs i have 3 but 2 would be ok one for body colour and one for tail colours and a micro oven  moulds for whatever you decide to use ? shads for me ! colours n glitters  nrattles...thats it !!!...use magic blue colour for body perch love it s electric blue shimmer !!tail colours whatever you like  ..you can get heads coloured by inserting peice of card into your mould but you must pour second lot in soon as ..i put one colour in warm it ready for pouring and whilst doing that   the other colour is in oven ,,practice does make perfect !!   safety wise mate do NOT !!get it on your skin whilst its hot ..very burny  ...theres tons of stuff on utube for pouring soft plastics and mark is always willing to help out just ring him ..youll have instructions and safety write up with your kit ...let me know how you get on  _  heres my mate karl with a nice perch he caught on one of my roach orange tails     p s add eyes to the shads  it defo works 

[Izzetafox]

I knew you made your own Stu but I didn't realise they were so good.

Well done mate they look great.

Thanks for posting.

Terry

[gbthejoiner]

Thanks for the reply will give it a go and let you know.