I have been powder coating now for 6 months and have gotten pretty good at it. I love the durability of a coated item for a rod and some of the affects you can get with two tones and masking off is amazing it really looks proffessional. I was able to actually do my BILLY B ROD CO. logo in detAIil on thin brass and insert into the rear grip of a rod. THANKS JOE E!!
I wanted to let enyone who ever had the same idea as me to not trry it. The it i am talking about is hat pins i got from the harris brothers in high point. I have been inserting pins in a mold i made and pouring with casting resin using background colors and tints for some really neat affects. The problem arouse when i tried to powder coat a pewter pin from the harris brothers.The pin formed nicely around the core piece and fit into the mold perfect. Then the coatilng went perfect and i was really able to get powder into the many crevices neatly and evenly. Next came the baking process. It lasted about 5 minutes at 375 before it began to melt and shatter. I found out pewter cannot be powder coated. I finallly switched to a enamal and it came out fine after 3 coats. My question would be has anyone found other mettals that cannot be coated?

I've powder coated the GH pins.....trick is to not put them into the oven, after coating the pins I heat the coating with a propane torch until it "just melts". Mine came out pretty nice. I was using the powder coating for lures that Netcraft sells. I did melt one Bad to the Bone pin that I preheated a bit too much though.

Most of the powders are thermosetting. Just heating up to the flow point will not fully cure the powder.
Possibly you could get by with some of the lower temp setting powders, which are rated at more in the 340F level. There is also usually a range for cure schedules,,, for example 20 minutes at 350F and 10 minutes at 400F. Often they tell you just one number for the curing, but if you poke around the powder manufacturing sites you will see the spec sheets given as charts from low to high temperatures.

Bruce painted several pins for me and about half of them were powder coated. I glued them on the core tube, put them in my mold, poured in the Flexcoat and they did just fine. Jesse

Ahhh,,, so you guys are just casting the pins within resin? Why bother powder coating at all then?

I had recently coated some lead casting lures and figured "what the heck". Besides, I liked the pearl white powder coat.

your right dave now im just either spray painting or brush painting but powder is so much cleaner oh well. Plus the effects you can get with all the different powders i just love playing with them.

your right dave now im just either spray painting or brush painting but powder is so much cleaner oh well. Plus the effects you can get with all the different powders i just love playing with them.