February 18, 2023

NED Tail Shaker

This is just another weird NED type bait that I am working on that has a rattle in the tail. A little sound can always add to attracting a bite.

This is the basic design of the bait. Overall it’s about 3″ long.

The interesting part is the Rattle embedded into the tail.

The overall mold design. (Transparent View.)

Solid View.

Here we have the actual 3D printed mold.

Before injecting I have to make some rattles.  I will be using these tiny 3/32″ Balls.

The print is paused right before it’s finished and the balls (3 for testing) are dropped into the print before it’s restarted to finish.

The finished test rattles.

For being so small they actually have a good rattle sound.

There is a tiny indent on the bottom which will sit onto a small pin.

This pin will be part of the mold to help keep the rattle in the center of it while injecting the bait.

Here is how it sits in the mold.  This might not be practical if making a ton of baits so later on I might just make a solid plug that can be injected around and then the rattle put into the bait after injecting.

The first injection went well.

Although the pin did come out with it.

I also did a clear test bait with a black rattle chamber just to see how it sits inside the bait.   It looks pretty centered anyway.  I still need to try injecting a few without the pin to see if just dropping the rattle in the mold would work well enough.

Here’s how it will sit in the water.  The only concerns I have right now is if the rattle will say water tight. I may have to seal them with UV resin.

Just waiting on Testing now.  To be Continued…..

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