Molotow vs Spaz Stix, Testing spray on chrome
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- Опубликовано: 22 дек 2020
- I'm always looking for an easy way to get a chrome like finish on my lures. That means I'm always testing spray chrome products like Spaz Stix and Molotow. In this video we look at how they hold up as spray chrome for lure making. I also give you an underwater look a the shrimp lures we made in the last couple videos.
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Thanks EA. I have a small handful of subscribes I watch each time they are available. You're one of them. It's a comfortable experience. Happy Holidays.
Thanks for all your work. Merry Christmas!
I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Merry Christmas, You have taught me and other people the specifics of lure making. Thank you and have a Merry Christmas
Happy holidays!
Thanks for all the help you have given us, and keep up the good work,
thanks for giving the footage we asked🙏 those shiny whiskers really did the job. merry christmas🙏
Merry Christmas. I love you content. I’m going to try and make a popping frog like yours as well as a shrimp. Looking forward to the boat upgrade vids.
Those shrimp are going to just plain kill it out there! Thanks for the great video and the shrimp footage. Have a safe and joyous holiday season, enjoy the family!
Thanks for all the GREAT videos in 2020.
Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
John
Thanks...Merry Christmas
Ohhhh Amazing videos, thank you. Merry Christmas and happy new year. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Happy holidays!
Merry Christmas. Love the vids keep them coming.🤙🤙
Thanks, you too!
Merry Christmas from London, enjoying your videos. Thank you.
Happy holidays! So cool to know I have some "Brits" watching...
A very merry Christmas to you and the family franko
Stay save and look forward to you next video in the new year 👍👍👍
Merry Christmas, keep up the good work and videos
Happy holidays!
Merry xmas mate, thanks for all the very informative videos 👍👍😍😍😎😎🇬🇧🇬🇧
Merry Christmas 🎅
Thanks for making this channel. Just starting out lure making and painting here. I finished my lure turner last night and got a mid coat on my first crankbait. Will be epoxy coating it soon. Watching your videos has saved me many frustrating mistakes and is just plain entertaining too. Merry Christmas, and please keep them coming.
That is awesome! Thank you very much and Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too. Shrimp looks good and the antenna are really eye catching. Thanks
Happy holidays! And thank you.
Merry Christmas My man!.....may your line stay tight!......
love that shrimp by the way!
Merry Christmas, thank you.
Happy holidays!
Thanks Franko, Merry xmas have a safe new years.
Thanks for the videos Francisco. I started watching you and Nate Marling a couple months ago and am on bait #7 right now. Love the new hobby. The motors for your PVC lure turner arrived about 10 minutes ago. Thanks for all the inspiration and great ideas.
Awesome! Thank you!
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Happy holidays to you!
Best ending to a video yet !!! Merry Christmas Franco...
Merry Christmas 🎅
A couple of layers of spray-on gloss coat will not only help protect the delicate finish, but also enhance the shine.
I have tested every spray gloss available they all dull the finish.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the family, brah. The shrimp vid was awesome!!! Luv to see a light florescent shrimp for night bridge and shore fishing, especially in the Florida Keys. I gotta good feeling Tarpons and Mangroves would luv it. Enjoy and remain safe!
Definitely will be playing around with color.....
Merry Christmas brother.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for all of your wonderful, educational videos. You have helped me to improve my lure making greatly. Ease keep the great content coming, theybarw my favorites! And I hope you are still considering making a surf darter.
Happy holidays! Thank you so much for your kind words.
Thank you so much for your informative videos. I enjoy them all! Merry Christmas from Alberta, Canada. I’ll be looking forward to “see” you in 2021!
Thank you...hope you stay tuned for next year. Happy New Year!
@@EngineeredAngler I’ll be watching for sure. Happy new year! 😊
Merry Christmas Francisco! Love the details in your vids! You have saved me from making many mistakes. Lol
Glad to help. Merry Christmas
Happy New year and here's hoping 2021 is better but won't be holding my breathe. Love the action of the shrimp/prawn. I'm thinking of making them for salt water fishing over here in the UK. I think the will be great for our sea bass plus Pollack and especially wrasse. Many thanks and look forward to another productive year
Thank you, I've been using them in saltwater here in Florida and the are killing it! Cheers.
Merry Xmas to you from Sweden. Keep up the great work you do.
Thank you...cheers
As always another master class 👍👍👍
Love the shrimp lure action. I think this design will work in fresh water painted as a crayfish. Should be a good bass lure. Good chrome paint comparison. Happy holidays to you and your family. Look forward to the new year and more videos.
Thank you and happy holidays.
nice channel, large amount of skill on display
Welcome and thanks 😊
Glad to see the shrimp ☺️. I wish u quiet holidays, see u next year. Buon Natale
Happy holidays!
i really wanted to see the clear coated side by side. and maybe the precoated. im gonna try the floor wax protection too thanks!
Hi there, I wish you had a very happy and nice christmas!!! Our christmas gifts were provided by you all year long and it has been just great on every week to see new and good ways of making lures. Keep up for next year. Saludos y abrazo.
Garacias y feliz año !
I was waiting on the underwater because of the weight placement on the hard bait version. I would like you to try to move the weight in front of the hook and see if the tail would act like a Bill, or bib as you call it, and give a wobble. I think it would because there was a slight one I saw on a straight retrieve. Then you could play with microballons and get a action to cast ratio that you could work with.
Just a thought If you like it I would like to hear about it. Hope you and yours have a great Christmas and New Years. Thanks for the videos!
I have to say I don’t fish I just searched spaz stix and found your videos. Very informative and helping me with my chrome decisions. Fortunately for me I will be painting model cars so they don’t need to be clear coated but I did want to paint something chrome under my hood of my truck and your video helped me or made me rethink clear coating. I saw a video of a krylon paint called foil. I saw a video of this and came out pretty good. No clear coat test. Maybe you can try it out. I was going to just decant them paint and use it in an airbrush. Anyway. Great video. And happy new year.
I'm always looking for new paints to try...thank you for the tip. One think I learned is that if the surface of the thing you are painting is not perfectly smooth, like glass, you will not get a very chrome-like finish. Happy new year to you.
There is also the Alclad Chrome brand. But the concern is to see if we can varnish them without destroying the mirror effect.
Great video!
The wood is camphor...Thanks!
Thanks for a great year of videos! They are always enjoyable!
What would you say your favorite spray chrome product is?
Want to get a silver plating setup at some point but until then will be spraying.
Spaz Stix is really the most reliable choice.
It's been a great year for fishing and not much else. Here's to great 2021!!
I'm curious why you didn't give the wax coat a light buffing.
The wax seems to dry as shiny as it will get...
Happy new year.
Nice job as all ways 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I've just found your channel and am really enjoying your videos. Curious if you've tried buffing (with a rag by hand or even with a wheel) before and/or after the wax? I've not used that particular floor wax, but I've never seen a wax that didn't improve with some buffing. Thanks for the great content!
Unfortunately buffing really wont help. Happy holidays and thanks for watching.
Have you tried high gloss polyurethane on the silver?
Merry Christmas to you also I was wondering about buffing out the wax if that might clear it up? Or is it a chemical reaction?
its a chemical reaction
Great Video, I like the quality of the airbrushing you are doing with your chrome, are you using an Iwata? or is that another brand- seems like it shoots good for you. I also have a question- would that Chrome plating work on covering a steel Spoon type lure, or does it only work on Plastics? also does your process only work when you spray over clearcoat?
The products can be sprayed on any surface but works best when sprayed over a VERY glossy finish. I do have an Iwata gun, works great.
Great content. Is there a specific type of black that you used/recommend or is it primarily the UV clearcoat that gives it that shine?
You can use any opaque black. The key as a glass smooth surface to spray the chrome on. You an use UV or 2 part resin.
@@EngineeredAngler Awesome, thank you!
According the spazstix, you have to use their black backer undercoat, and their clear for a mirror chrome finish.
They make that pretty clear.
If you watch their own videos they admit the finish is more like polished aluminum at best.
Hello there. watching and liking you You are very helpful to me. I also want to use spazstix when making fake fish. But the product is not sent to turkey. What is the reason for this? Where can I find out? Can you learn for me? Thank you so much. I'm looking forward to your new videos. I love you man.
Hi,
Have you tried to put the tinted color directly over the chrome? Maybe some clear candy color from Spaz Stix, Alclad or Tamiya?
Yes I have
use alclad II gloss coat on the molotow chrome it retains its chrome with that gloss coat no need to put anything else but those two
I got a couple of Rat -L-Traps to repaint that had a mirror chrome factory finish. There are obviously other lures and lure blanks that have bright chrome finish. Do you have any idea how they obtain mirror chrome but it seems the average guy can’t? Is it electroplating maybe? Or your silver plating?
FWIW, the Rat-L-Traps both had the finish wear off. They appear as though there was no coating over the paint so they most likely weren’t a very tough finish. My challenge is to be able to apply a two part epoxy so I’m most likely going to need a mid coat. At this point I’m going to try Despiae with a floor wax mid coat.
I have some Spaz-Stix but don’t think I’m gonna bother with it. I had seen where a guy used chrome finger nail powder on chrome hood ornaments with excellent results so that’s in the mix. I tried one on a test lure so far but less than stellar results . Work in progress
Obviously all your information has been exceptionally useful. Thanks for all your time and work
The lure manufacturers use electroplating over plastic.
I bought Molotow chrome pens to do some hobby work but was put off by not being able to clear coat. I have heard you can clear it with Alclad II ALC600 Aqua Gloss and not loose the chrome effect, but have not tried it.
I've never tried it...but you would think if it worked molotow themselves would have a video....I have my doubts.
@@EngineeredAngler Thanks for the reply. Adam Savage from Tested seemed to like the results, but he doesnt seem to show any close-ups. The video is a shortened clip from a 55 minute video. I havent watched the entire version (although it is listed in the video description which I hadnt checked until now) but someone that did had posted the information in the comments:
He is using the Molotow Liquid Chrome coating it with the Alclad clear. The commenter provided links and I AM WRONG. It is Alclad II Lacquers Gloss Klear Kote, 1oz, ALC310. Please see the link to the product as there is a video of a guy that had success with this.
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Nice job, hey whay kind of product you use to paint the base in black shine/gloss beofre chrome Thanks?
Black airbrush paint with an epoxy clear coat on top.
@@EngineeredAngler Thanks, The epoxy clear coat can be applied by airbrush? Doesn´t matter if yes or not, can you please help me with any product to buy?
There is a guy in my area that paints perfectly chrome bomber lures. I don't know how he does it but they are as shinny as a mirror.
Silver plate... that's what I do. He might have learned it from my videos 😃
@@EngineeredAngler This guys been doing it for 10 years.
will the uv lights with the lower wave length work for resin curing, 185/254, these are the germ/H-Vac bulbs
Thanks
Yes it will but, it can over cure the resin and leave it brittle and those wavelengths are a bit more hazardous. Be carful.
What is name of colore chrome brand sir?
Try some acrylic water based polyurethane in high gloss to see how it does! 😉
Molotow takes like a week to properly dry and cure, if you try to clear coat it before a week you will *always* ruin the finish.
Merry chrimbo
I did some testing and it is really clear to me that the black spray paint under the chrome greatly affects the quality of mirror finish... just a observation. Still experimenting .. there's so many brands out there. I've only tested with Spazstix or however it's spelled
I think you're right...
I noticed a "green addition" to to your lure turner. Looks like it might be foam? What is the purpose of it?
Just an artifact from an old video stuck there for no reason...🙄
Have you made a video on making the fat body lure? Don’t think I’ve seen that one
No sorry. I designed and made that lure before RUclips.
@@EngineeredAngler I have multiple hard plastic top water baits I paint. All purchased blanks. But thinking of making one of my own that’s has some fish shaped body features but also walks the dog well. Interesting shape to the one you’ve made. Looks like it would works very well
Well...looks like I need to order some Spaz Stix. Ever try their rattle can stuff?
No..have not tried the rattle can version.
@@EngineeredAngler was just curious, I am sure the airbrush will be better.
cool, i'm looking for a paint for my mandalorian helmet, and who's going to do a great test ... thanks and greetings from germany
Good luck!
what about molotow chrome from a can, maybe that'd make the price more bearable? I don't remember it actually being chrome though, more of a bright silver so maybe not what you're looking for
Lots of silver-ish sprays out there...
@@EngineeredAngler no disagreement there
Can either of those be used for touching up the edges on chrome wheels?
You can try but I doubt it will match the finish very well
@@EngineeredAngler thank you.
Finding actual bright mirror Chrome for wheels is impossible. #defeated
Sorry man.
What eas the gold die you added to the clear? Was the clear uv clear?
Yes it was UV clear and the yellow was a transparent resin dye...it has to be transparent!
@@EngineeredAngler so after doing this video and the other video where you used foil tapes which would you say is the best way to achieve a chrome lure? If it is foil, is there a preferred brand you have?
@@EngineeredAngler thanks. So do you think that the foil is still the better option for chroming a lure? Have you ever tried foil of just doing a small section?
Foil does a good job but, it's not chrome! I have made getting a truly reflective surface on lures kind of a personal challenge. I was able to get it perfect with the silver plating but, it's the sort of thing that I do when I have 10 or more lures to plate. Otherwise it's not really worth it.
@@EngineeredAngler i will have to try that. Do you have a video showing that
I wonder how Mattel HOTWHEELS factory paint plastic chrome car bodies and wheel rims.
They actually chrome plate...you can do it over plastic. Look at most cars, they have chrome plated plastic trim.
@@EngineeredAngler Chrome plating plastic is done with electric current?
Yes...I looked into it and it's doable for the hobbyist but, you need lots of room and have to be will to drop nearly 2 grand to get started...no thanks!
That is such an unfortunate name for a company.
Both those names are pretty bad...