PVA & Polywood

BOOKLET #1, Fishing Lure Design Templates

Subject 12, Introduction to PVA

Subject 1 About Drawing & Scale	Subject 2 Super Lures Zero Buoyancy	Subject 3 The P-24, Big Salt-Trolling
Subject 4 Big O Series	Subject 5 Bottom Jigs	Subject 6 3D Spoons
Subject 7 Stick Baits	Subject 8 Squids	Subject 9 Top Water
Subject 10 Crappie Jigs	Subject 11 Jointed Lures	Subjecte 12 PVA/Polywood

PVA (poly vinyl acetate) better know as a hot melt glue stick comes in over 30 variations of Shear strength (SOFTNESS) & clearity. PVA was originally designed for the Packaging and Adheasive Industies.

PVA as a lure making material has been right here, under our noses all these years. You will be amazed at the fishing lures you can make from PVA (glue-sticks).

The Design Drawing Elements: Fig. 1.

#1. The Solid PVA body.

#2. A shallow angle diving bill.

#3. A single ball, glass rattle (ticker).

#4. A 1/8th Oz. Slip sinker. Seen here somewhat oversized.

#5. A :break-&-shake” light stick.

#6. A 3D eye socket.

#7. The air bladder. (Can be filled with liquid, or paste scenting materials.

#8. The laser cut steel hook-set, harness plate.

Figure 2. (Below) Is the finished master plug for mold making.

You may recognize this generic lure shape as being very similar to the popular Big-O series. The Big-O design has been around for over 40 years, and has far out-lived it’s patent protection. Also many commercial lure manufacturers are making this generic design. But; none like this one. Rather than sculpting this generic shape from scratch; you may consider using “found shapes” to begin developing a new and different lure design.

SOFT BODY CRANK-BIATS. An Introduction to PVA Lure Design

Please recall some words from The READ ME pages. There are quite literally hundreds of different materials that fishing lure bodies can be made of. After exhaustive trial & error testing of most all available lure making materials; I have chosen two I believe to be best for micro factory lure makers.

First is: PVA (Poly Vinyl Acetate) PVA is not a new form of thermal plastic invented by Trueflex Imagineering. However; TFI did invent a methodology for making fishing lures from PVA. PVA has been around for a long time. PVA is a common hot melt adhesive primarily used in the packaging industry. Most people are familiar with PVA as the common hot melt, glue stick. There are over 30 different formulations of packaging PVA; from worm-like soft, to near brittle. Some are crystal clear, and some are opaque colors. The inherent qualities of PVA make it the ideal, low cost, and easy to use material for Making solid, but flexible clear plastic lure bodies.

The Advanced Lure Design in Sample 1.(left). Is made of PVA; a semi-rigid, (flexible solid), clear plastic that has the feel of firm flesh. The ballast can be fine tuned to zero buoyancy. The body is covered with thousands of shimmering and light reflecting holographic micro sequins that appear to be real fish scales. The lure makes a subtle but audible ticking sound. The lure glows from the inside-out, and leaves a powerful scent trail for the hungry predator to follow. All of the internal workings of this design are held together with an .030 ga. laser cut stainless steel line & hook-set harness plate. The lure can be painted & clear coated to a high gloss shemmering finish with flexible urethane materials from the HOUSE OF KOLOR. Refer to your DIRECTORY for these and other lure making materials.

Second is: Industrial Polymers Inc., Poly-wood. Poly-wood is a Urethane Polymer (RTV) that when cured, has nearly identical qualities as a dense balsa-wood.

Personally; I prefer to make lures from Poly-wood. The reason Poly-wood is my second choice in lure making materials is because this material requires a larger set-up investment than PVA.

As your lure making guide; I will suggest that beginner lure makers stick to the PVA Systems before advancing to Urethane Polymer Systems.

Fig 3. A sample page from BOOK #3 - Lure Making

Fig. 3. Is a sneak preview into the pages of Book # 3>Lure Making. It has no instruction purpose here. I included Fig. 3. Here to demonstrate the simplicity of a “Table Top” Micro Factory. The hand held PVA injector, The single cavity mold, the table vice, and a few simple mold tools, and materials are all needed to begin manufacturing retail quality fishing lures.