My First Home-made HP's

[Wreckingball76]

Hi Folks, long time no see!

After trials at making Soft Plastics last year, this year I thought I'd try my hand at Hard Plastic Lures. That's basically where I've been hiding the last 6 months....lol

I've decided to have a bash at the non-traditional way of manufacture and opted for 3D printing rather than moulding. 3D printing allows a higher level of customisation and speed which enables changes to the design fairly often without having to reproduce a mould cavity each time.

I've designed the lures using CAD then had them 3D printed, after a few design tweaks (to make the assembly easier) they are ready for painting. The whole process has been really enjoyable so far, although I'm really struggling with the painting as I don't have the patience!

I've attached a few photo's below in the printed, assembly and pre finished painted (primed) state.

I've also just finished my first one! Swims ok in the bath! Ready for Sea trials…..the missus & kids bought me a GoPro for xmas so hopefully get some videos up soon!

[bassking]

great work si

[bassking]

see if you can make a maria chase bw in silver holo

[Wreckingball76]

I'll give it a go mate, haven't got one left, lost mine! I'll need one to reverse engineer it! lol



the one in the pic is very loosely based on a Komono II, swims like it too. mines better though!.... lol



apologies for the crap picture.....

[phill_itofish]

Very nice mate, have you got weights and rattles in them?

[Wreckingball76]

Yeah Phill, they have two weight / rattle chambers inside. One mid body and one towards the tail.

[sammy talbot]

Nicely done

[over par]

They look great Si. Look forward to hearing how the sea trials go.

[phill_itofish]

Yeah Phill, they have two weight / rattle chambers inside. One mid body and one towards the tail.

Cool, are you actually going to fishing with then this year lol

[Wreckingball76]

lol....aye I might give this fishing lark a go this year, didn't get much done last season. I'm itching to get cracking now. changed jobs and had loads of work in the house to do last year, so time was tight. Hopefully, I'll have more free time this year!

[Nooo Fish]

They look brilliant mate. I hope they are a success.

You should make some in joker flashing plate seeing as ima don't make it anymore.

[sammy talbot]

They look brilliant mate. I hope they are a success.

You should make some in joker flashing plate seeing as ima don't make it anymore.

Ima jfp were rare a year ago and were changing hands for £50 but they had another production run and flooded the market with them

[Nooo Fish]

Ima jfp were rare a year ago and were changing hands for £50 but they had another production run and flooded the market with them

Ah right. I didn't know they made more. They must be good if people were paying that sort of money for them.

[Wreckingball76]

Got some of this special transfer tape to try......it will give a similar effect I'm thinking.

[sammy talbot]

Ah right. I didn't know they made more. They must be good if people were paying that sort of money for them.

No better or worse than other komomos but a good colour for night time . Clever marketing , a lot of people reporting getting fish on them , then become in short supply and the hype around them grows and some people get sucked in to the hype and bingo a legend is born