These jerkbaits have been on my mind for a few months and I finally had a breakthrough!
It was tough to choose a method for production with these jerkbait designs… Should I solid cast them? Injection mold? Carve from wood? Or rotocast them? Of all the methods rotocasting seemed like the method I wanted to pursue the most because it had slightly more pros than cons.
The pros are that it takes less material, you get a hollow lure, the epoxy cures quickly, and the main con is just that I need to build a rotocaster to really move forward with these designs but my initial tests were successful beyond all expectations!
This first prototype has some issues and not the most even coating but I was rotating it by hand for this initial test.
It is so cool to have an idea, make the 3d model, and then to see it come to life as a real object. That never gets old!
Hopefully these should be available soon on the shop in 150mm/6″, 130mm/5.125″, and 110mm/4.3″ sizes.
