Painting your own spoons

[Gotta Bite]

I wanted to play around with painting my own spoons. I was going to use some of my older non productive spoons to test. What type of paint works well and hold up the best and do you have to sand the spoons or prep it in order for it to take on the metal? I think it would be satisfying to catch one one one you designed yourself.

[raider44]

GB- My dad has painted spoons in the past- he would get all of his supplies from janns netcraft. As for the process I am really not sure, but this link could help point you in the right direction.

http://www.jannsnetcraft.com/

[Gotta Bite]

Thanks Raider, I'll check it out, I was just wi\ondering if there was some special paidt or a baked on process That needed to be done to keep the paint on.

[Paul Czarnecki]

I paint a lot of spoons as part of my ProStaff position with Dreamweaver. I use lacquer paints out of my airbrush and then clear coat with Rustoleum Clear. A hair dryer helps seal everything. However, I am painting spoons only to test particular color patterns. I'm not really interested in longevity because once I come up with a hot pattern I send it to DW to be painted using their resources and possibly put in the lineup.

If I were to paint my own spoons for longevity I would use automotive paints as they are made to go on metal.

Its a lot of fun to catch fish on a spoon pattern that you created--the same as tying your own flies for trout fishing!

Good luck and have fun!

Paul