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Dream It, Make It, Fish It; means just that...! BOOK #1 Will guide you from concept to creation. Your idea of a great new fishing lure can easily be transformed into a hold me, touch me, take me fish’n, 3D object, Prototype, or Master Plug for mold making. This incredible “Lure Designers” Book (Chapter 5) also contains dozens of proven fishing lure design templates for both freshwater and saltwater trophy hunters. These designs were created by the author. You are licensed, and welcome to reproduce them, add your own changes to them, or create a master piece of your own.
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Basic Lure Design
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From concept to a finished Masterplug. As with any idea for a new product design; be it a fishing lure, or a house; we must first begin with a design plan. Learn how to design your lure on paper first. Chapter I provides the step-by-step procedures for creating a functional prototype from sctratch. Use these simple on-and-off sculpting methods and materials. Anyone can do it !
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Chapter II
The Line & Hookset Harness
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5 ways to make the hookset frame-works. There are five basic types of Line to Hookset Harnesses that apply to fishing lure design. A sample of all four is represented in Chapter II. Each one has a special application in lure making based on the kind of material the lure body is made of, and what toothy critter the lure is intended to catch.
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Chapter III
Lure Ballast Design
5 Sub-Chapters
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Cold Pour Lead ? From high floating topwater lures, to zero buoyancy cranks, to deep running big game trolling; the size, configuration, weight and placement of ballast will determin the over-all behavior of your lure design. Chapter III demonstrates how and why ballast works, and how to produce the ballast part(s) for lure manufacturing.
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Chapter IV
Advanced Lure Design
Available to Subscribers March, 2008
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Save time & money by eliminating the “Scratch Build” processes. Chapter IV demonstrates how to find, capture and alter found shapes to create new and unique lure designs. If Chapter I doesn’t seem to work for you; fall back to Chapter IV, and...Cheat ! Also; some pointers about using high-tech machines that read line drawings, and do the sculpting work for you.
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Chapter V
Lure Design Templates
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10 proven designs to get started making your own. All lure designs featured here are products of TRUEFLEX Imagineering. They all have been developed beyond the prototype stages. All have been field tested, and produced very seccessful catches. Most have been sold in Tackle Stores around the World. Many have earned the North Americam Fishing Club Seal of Approval. Chapter V is a lure design idea developer. The many elements of lure design featured in Chapter V can be applied to your design concepts. Use our scale up/down design drawings.
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Chapter VI
Lure Design T.E.A.M.
Tools, Equipment, Accessories & Materials
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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What does it take to design a fishing lure; besides a good idea? Some of these gadgets and brews have to be made from what-nots. Would you believe a a trip to the floral supply is in order? There’s More...
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In-house Mold Making is the key to setting up a successful Fishing Lure Micro-Factory. Book #2, MOLD MAKING, Prototype To Production will guide you from developing a prototype mold of your Master Plug to high speed reproduction of your fishing lure products. The LMDFG mold making materials and methodologys will provide you with simple and low cost means to make molds that work efficiently, and eliminate high dollor tooling, and machinery. No high tonnage machines, or melting temperatures are necessary. Everything is based on using low cost, modern polymer plastics, RTV, (Room Temperatures Vulcanizing) materials.
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Basic Mold Making
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Make A Fishing Lure Mold for less than $25. In Chapter I you will be provided the where-with-all to make a casting, or injection mold for less than twenty-five dollars. That’s right!; I said: "$25 bucks". Your finished mold will produce the same quality fishing lure bodies as a conventional steel or aluminum mold that may cost up to $10,000., or more?
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Chapter II
Mold Tools & Inserts
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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A mold is basically a negative impression (cavity) of any given objects shape. when the mold cavity is filled with a liquid that cools or hardens into a rigid or semi-rigid material, the mold produces a copy of the original object’s shape. Mold Tools and Inserts are removable or perminent negative or positive ad-in shapes that become a part of the final object.
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Chapter III
Lure Ballast Molds
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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Cast heavy-as-lead parts with no heat. Chapter III demonstrates the making of low cost molds for hand pouring lead, or casting heavy fillers blended with RTV Plastics.
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Chapter IV
Advanced Mold Making
Available to Subscribers April, 2008
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One mold with 5 cavities; or 5 molds with one cavity ? Advanced Mold Making takes the next step up from producing a single cavity mold for prototype development to multi-cavity molds for high volume production. Advanced mold making includes mold cycling systems for large single cavity molds like those used to make large saltwater lures.
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Chapter V
Metal Casting Molds
Available to Subscribers August, 2008
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Don’t do this yourself.....and wait for that slow boat from China... Make molds for use in Lost Wax Investment Casting of Ferrous and Non Ferrous Metal Parts. Produce high-quality parts in commercial grade: ZINC ALLOYS, TIN ALLOYS & LEAD ALLOYS
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Chapter VI
Rubber Molds
Available to Subscribers May, 2008
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This chapter departs somewhat from strictly lure making. However; “parts-is-parts”. Learn about the many kinds of RTV Rubber materials that are used for plastic part making. These mold making materials and methodologies cover a wide range of plastics fabrication from spin casting fishing Lure Bodies to spray-up systems for making just about anything.
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Chapter VII
Mold Making T.E.A.M.
Tools, Equipment, Accessories & Materials
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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The reason most homespun lure makers are stuck making worms, lead-heads and beads on wire is because they don’t know they can buy mold making materials at the local hardware store....
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Book #3, LURE MAKING Unlimited - Procedures removes all barriers. It is your step-by-step procedure guide to producing retail quality fishing lure products. Make secret weapons for your own fishing successes, or competition fishing. Start a hobby lure making business on your kitchen table. Move it to the garage. Build a serious manufacturing shop. What ever your lure making wishes are; the means and where-with-all are here.
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Masterplug Copies
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It is a good idea to make several copies of your fishing lure design, using these low cost methods.
1. Now you have a copy of your design that can be mailed to yourself to establish a un-deniable date of orign of your lure design; per instruction in: BOOK 4: The Business >Patents & Copyrights.
2. When you develop your lure design to the point of accelerated production; you will need multiple copies of the master plug to make multiple cavity molds.
3. If; in the event you loose a master plug during the mold making proscess; you have back-up copies to begin again.
4. You will have additional copies of your basic lure design that can be altered during the development, and fine tuning of your lure design.
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Chapter II
Soft Body Crank Baits - From PVA
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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Most people are familiar with PVA as the common hot melt, glue stick. PVA (Polyvinyl 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.
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Chapter III
Rigid Body Crank Baits - From Polywood
Available to Subscribers Fedruary, 2008
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Liquid Balsa Wood ? Imagine that you have a mold of any crank-bait, top-water or trolling lure you have ever seen. Now; imagine you can fill that mold with a liquid (synthetic) balsa wood that hardens into any shape and weight you desire.
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Chapter IV
Zero Buoyancy Crank Baits
Available to Subscribers May, 2008
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(ZBs) ZERO BUOYANCY, Super Lures: Loosly defined; means that an object, or mass weighs exactly the same as the amount of water it displaces. Said differently; if your fishing lure weighs the same as the water it displaces; it will not float on the surface, or sink because of it’s weight. It can sit still, suspended in mid-water. I don’t know about you; but, this sounds a lot like a live fish (preditor food source) to me.
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Chapter V
Top Water Lures
Available to Subscribers May, 2008
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World Record Muski. I once met a young fellow that had set himself on a course of catching the World Record Muski. His idea for a lure to accomplish such a thing was a Muskrat immitation nearly 20 inches long, and weighed nearly a pound. But; the lure did behave like a muskrat swimming on the surface. I don’t know if the young man ever succeded in breaking the record. But; I can guarantee the boy cought a lot of big fish.
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Chapter VI
Light Jigs
Available to Subscribers June, 2008
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One of the best fishing days of my life happened when I stumbled into a herd of 2 Pound Crappie. I spent the afternoon having the paint chewed off my only 1” Flatfish. Here are some ideas I came up with that work even better. These mini jigs & lures are made of PVA. (Glue Sticks).
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Chapter VII
Paint & Finishing
Available to Subscribers March, 2008
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The Three most important factors in making any fishing lure successful are:
(1). Color... (2). Color... (3). Color. Learn how to apply a true holographic, fish scale finish with delecate layers of life-like color tints to any lure body.
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Chapter VIII
Jointed Lures Add-on(s) & Trailers
Available to Subscribers July, 2008
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Live bait bucket, or tackle box; what’s the difference ? Make a lure that shakes it’s head, or swims like a snake. Crank-bait style lures are commonly designed to have a built-in swimming action. However; the addition of a hair or feather skirt gives the crank-bait a tail to wriggle. The addition of a soft-plastic trailer can make it swim like a live animal. Learn how to make a crank-bait that swims forward under it’s own power.
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Chapter IX
Deep Trolling Saltwater Series
Available to Subscribers July, 2008
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Saltwater fishing rule #1. Little fish on top - big fish are under the little fish. Make large & heavy big game lures that run 40ft deep from 6-kts to 12-kts.
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Chapter X
Bottom Fishing Jigs
Available to Subscribers August, 2008
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A jig that falls 200 feet in 10 seconds doesn’t have to look like a cannon ball with eyes. Make fast sinking lures that look like live bait. Add rattles and skirts.
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Chapter XI
Adding Rattles
Available to Subscribers June, 2008
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Glass Rattles inside a solid lead lure...? Use glass rattles specifically manufactured for this purpose. Use simple methodologies to install glass rattles in solid plastic or lead lures.
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Chapter XII
Skirts & Trailers
Available to Subscribers August, 2008
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Never Seen Before Lure Skirt Inventions... Many common trolling lures are 1/3rd lure body, and 2/3rds trailer; known as the skirt. It is easy enough to buy an endless assortment of lure skirts. But; imagine a squid lure that actually has soft flexible arms like a live squid.
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Chapter XIII
Lure Making T.E.A.M.
Tools, Equipment, Accessories & Materials
Available to Subscribers February, 2008
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The reason most homespun lure makers are stuck making worms, lead-heads and beads on wire is because they don’t know they can turn the ketchen table, or a corner of the gurage into a fishing lure Micro-factory. Make an ordinary can crusher, and empty calking tube into a mold injection pump. You just saved 1,000s of $$$ in equipment cost.
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There is no such thing as a grand "LURE MAKERS-R-US" Store. The ART, SPORT & BUSINESS OF LURE MAKING is the closest “One-Stop-Source" for all things related to making fishing lures. The BOOK #4, READ ME booklets provide a background into the why’s & where-with-alls all elements of the Factory, and Procedures work together. The Micro Factory: If you can’t find it already made; we show you how to make it. The Lure Making Business is a lot of hard earned experience you won’t have to learn the hard way. The HELP Booklet is about how we solved problems so you don’t have to. The Directory is a go-to list that saves 100’s of hours searching for the right thing, at the right time. Is your Lure Making Business open for business? Here’s “How-To”.
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FREE Sample Chapter
About Plastics - Plus
Things you didn’t know; you need to know
about plastics ?
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About Plastics - Plus CONTENTS
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Chapter II
The Lure Makers Micro Factory
Store it all in a milk
crate; or get industrial...
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ENVIRONMENT Basic Shop Requirements.
Tools BasicTools. Wire Form Templates. Wire Forming Patterns & Tools.
RTV Hand Pump Injector.
Equipment Build a Paint Booth. Spin Casting. PVA Poly Vinyl Acetate Injecting. Meter/Mix Inject. Mold Clamping Systems.
Accessories Diving Bills. Wire Forms. Wire Eyes. Eyes & Decals. Terminal Tackle.
Materials Mold/Casting Compound. Release Agents. Putty, Primer & Gel Coats. Hydro Span. PVA (Poly Vinyl Acetate). Urethane Polymers (Polywood).
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Chapter III
The Lure Making Business
Some hard-nose advice now, prevents a skined-nose later.
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Did You Know...?
The telephone was invented simultaneously by two different inventors. What if the other telephone guy had worked harder, to " GET'er DONE" first..? Ring a BELL.? .... Got an idea for a great new fishing lure design ? Want to keep it yours...? Don't tell anyone until you read the LMM, Business.
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FREE Sample Chapter
The Trouble Shooter. Stop costly mistakes
before they happen.
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Murphy's Law:
"If anything can go wrong; it will,
and at the worst possible time".
The H E L P Section is about damage control, what went wrong, and how not to make the same mistake twice.
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Chapter V
DIRECTORY
100’s of Listings for:
Lure Making Tools, Equipment, Accessories & Materials.
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DIRECTORY
The #1 Lure Maker's SUPER LIST
Where to find the: T.E.A.M.S - Tools, Equipment, Accessories, Materials & Services
Over 100 Listings for:
Lure Design, Mold Making & Lure Making
Get the T.E.A.M.S. product or service you need Fast. Click on the Company Name. Go straight to their Web Site.
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