{"id":168,"date":"2025-08-13T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:11:12","slug":"new-jerkbait-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/13\/new-jerkbait-line\/","title":{"rendered":"New jerkbait line!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These jerkbaits have been on my mind for a few months and I finally had a breakthrough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This first prototype has some issues and not the most even coating but I was rotating it by hand for this initial test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully these should be available soon on the shop<\/a> in 150mm\/6″, 130mm\/5.125″, and 110mm\/4.3″ sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[12,10,3,7,6,14,22,20,9,13],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jerkbaits","tag-artificial-bait","tag-fish","tag-fishing","tag-fishing-bait","tag-fishing-lure","tag-freshwater-fishing","tag-handmade","tag-jerkbait","tag-lunkerresearch","tag-saltwater-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunkerresearch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}