Looking good 👍

All of the colors will work, but I know what you mean trying to produce a color or copy one and not succeeding.
Still - great lures and lure colors!

wiggle wart that helped my friend win a tournament

cyber craw i did for myself

chunk I got with the cyber craw less than 24 hours after painting it

KVD 2.5 i did for myself

Nice work!

Custom chatters with humdinger blades

Basstrix style hand dipped tubes

finess cranks

bucktails for my buddy fishing snook in mexico

bluegill swing jigs

This thread has almost 10000 views and I stopped posting because I get barely any engagement. Do y'all not like custom hand made baits? lol I don't get it

I've been building custom jigs for 48 years now and added spinner baits buzz baits and blade baits through the years I've had a customer base of 196 anglers and at one time I was in 9 tackle shops. I still get email all the time I turn alot of them down as I'm 69 years old now and going through cancer treatment which is curable with major surgery.

Balazs you make some dam good looking baits

Thank you that means a lot! Ever since I saw the way you thread tie skirts on this forum I copied you and have had amazing results. Its far superior to the rubber band- I can layer colors, the skirts never fall off, they flare out more, and just get bit better.

I truly hope you beat cancer i'm sorry to hear that. I hope you can still make jigs to maintain sanity. Stay strong!

Like I said I've been building jigs since 1977 when living rubber was the square rubber in fine frog hair and regular grade I tied the umbrella skirts and switch to round rubber when it came it to production then when Skirts plus introduced silicone skirt material in 1986 I started building the umbrella skirts in silicone. In 1984 I also started building the original puffball jigs in living square rubber in both fine and reg grade rubber. I also built the original Lions collar jigs at the same time. And I still build both today the puffball jigs I build in both round rubber or in silicone with accent colors and add flashabou or bucktail accent colors. With the Lion collar jigs I combined both round rubber in fine or reg grade rubber and silicone skirt material in different colors and I also add flashabou or bucktail. I'm a big fan of Yamamoto twin and single tail 4" & 5" grubs as my trailers also single josh pork in 101' 11 and big daddy pork . I'm a big finesse guy I build jigs from 1/8 oz to 1 oz all using light wire mustad black Nickel hooks. I specialize in light line 4,4,8,10 maxima in all types of structure you don't need big line to horse big fish out of trees or brush or rock piles. The u
Umbrella skirts Is just one way to get the maximum flare out of your silicone skirt material or round rubber material it's the best under any conductions you fish.

balazs just keep up what your doing everything you build in jigs spinner baits buzz baits or blade baits or painting crank baits you do everything right and you build some outstanding color combinations in your baits. The umbrella skirts are just one more weapon to add to your jig arsenal no matter what size of jigs you build. I enjoy seeing your skirt design you build. I've had my time in the sun I've slowed way down but I still build my share of jigs I retired from manufacturing about 3 years ago. I still get 30 to 40 emails a week and turn down about 90% of them because I have minimum orders on all my Jigs Spinner baits Buzz baits and Blade baits. Balazs just keep up what your doing because your doing it right.

I buy all my material in bulk from several companies
(Skirts Plus) for silicone skirt material they also do special order colors on silicone
(Living Rubber company) for all round rubber skirt material in Fine grade Regular grade & Heavy grade round rubber they also have silicone skirt material.
(Kaiser lure corp.) Bulk custom fiber guards in all sizes I use 9,11,18,24 fibers in my fiber guards.
(Shorty hooks) for all my bulk hooks Mustad black nickel hooks
Components systems, Inc for all my Powder paint.
Flashabou and bucktail there are several local company I buy from.

You guys are very talented artist for sure and do a great job on your painting. You either got it or you don’t and you guys definitely got it. Thanks for showing your talents.

There also another custom jig manufacture that does outstanding work Cadman jigs he make some outstanding builds and he has his own website. He add the puffball jigs to his line up that he builds himself.
Balazs
Cadman jigs
And Myself
We're all custom builders
Balazs and Cadman take it to the next level

Thank y'all, I really appreciate it!!


3/8 green pumpkin chatter which is my default. Noticed how i tarnished the blade with a torch to mute it


one of many marabou jigs i'm working on for my friend who fishes Lahontan cutthroat trout in Pyramid Lake Nevada


Probably the most expensive lure i've ever painted. Sometimes the simple things work the best