Making a Sushi Whip Tail Grub Tools and Materials

Making the Master

Hollow Garden cane Bamboo skewers Super Sculpey Polymer Clay Empty Jam jar Craft knife Ceramic Tile Popsicle Sticks Sushi mat Conventional Oven Cotton polishing mop & drill holder and drill

Body armature Holding above and as tools Sculpting material for master Rolling out above General trimming Heat proof base As Tools Making grooves Baking the master Polishing the master (this can be done by hand using a cotton cloth)

Garden centre Supermarket Art/craft shop/Ebay The Jam Fairy The Knife Fairy DIY Store Supermarket Asian Store Kitchen oven Diy Store/ Ebay

Making the Mould Corrugated Cardboard Parcel/gaffer or Wide scotch tape Super glue gel Plastercine (modelling clay) Sticking the mould box to tile Sealing around the mould box For the mould box Covering the mould box Mr Johns world of magic tape Supermarket/ DIY Art/craft shop/Ebay

RTV Silicone For Making the mould The product I used in this video was Polycraft GP-3481-F RTV Silicone which is a two part kit of silicone and catalyst which sets the silicone. There is a huge range of mould making silicones out there with different properties; often the companies that supply soft plastics for making the lures will stock a RTV silicone to suit the home user making things easy. If this is not the case then the main properties I would look for in a silicone is that it is 1.)condensation cure rather than addition which is more expensive and reacts with lots of other materials. 2.) It can be hand mixed and hand

poured and does not require vacuum degassing. 3.) it has moderate flexibility when cured so the master can be easily removed. The most important part of any RTV two part kit is the instructions; I would not like to guess the amount time I have wasted because I had failed to read the instruction properly.

Polycraft GP-3481-F RTV Silcone

Silicone mould material

Ebay

Soft Plastics (plasitsol) Soft plastics require some health and safety considerations especially if like me you are planning to cook them up at home. Again following the makers instructions is vital. As a rule I use safety glasses, a respirator, gloves and cover up arms and legs; this may seem over the top but I like my arms, legs, eyes and lungs. If the weather is fine I cook up outside. Most soft plastic can be heated in a microwave or on a hob in a pan. Most Manufacturers recommend that you do not use a microwave that you will be using for food preparation, I bought a separate microwave for this which cost me 30 brand new from a ASDA/Wallmart . Again refer to the instruction for heating times.

Lure Factors Liquid plastic soft

available Online from Lure Factors UK http://www.lurefactors.co.uk/

Liquid plastic colours Lure Lube Microwave oven or pan and Hob Heat Proof Jug Heat proof stirrer (not wood)

Alternative suplliers UK and Europe

Lureparts NL http://www.lureparts.nl/

USA

Janns NETCRAFT http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/ Make lure (Alumilite) http://www.makelure.com/