Making Soft Plastic Worm Fishing Lures Tools and Materials List

Making the Master

Super Sculpey Polymer Clay Fimo, Polymer Clay as alternative Flat ceramic tile for baking 100-300grit sand paper stuck to flat board Cotton cloth to polish the cured polymer clay Texturing Board Small piece of thin hardboard/plywood Lined paper 20-50lb Monofilament Fishing Line Stanley or heavy craft knife Spray Adhesive or general purpose glue Making The Mold Super glue either gel or thin A stick for spreading the above A piece of flat glass from a small picture frame Enough Lego to build a mould box Plastercine or modelling clay

Art and Craft Shops

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/Amazon

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 a respirator, gloves and cover up arms and legs; this may seem over the top but I like my arms, legs 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/