Mounting Fishing Lures

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I have a customer that wants to have some fishing lures mounted the same as some others he had done somewhere else. I haven't seen them, so I'm going on what he told me.

He said they were raised off the mat board on some sort of clear plastic post. Does anyone know what this might be, and where I might find it? Or have a suggestion of what to use to raise them away from the mat?

I've mounted lures for this customer in the past, but we've always just stitched them down through the hooks, etc.

I told customer I'd look into this and get back to him.
 
studio 3 said:
...He said they were raised off the mat board on some sort of clear plastic post. Does anyone know what this might be, and where I might find it?
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That isn't much to go on.

Raised off the matboard by what height?

How were the lures attached to the posts?

The "post" could be a length of clear acrylic rod, but what diameter? It could be a slice of clear acrylic glazing, but what dimensions? It could be something else, too...
 
studio 3 said:
I have a customer that wants to have some fishing lures mounted the same as some others he had done somewhere else. I haven't seen them, so I'm going on what he told me.

He said they were raised off the mat board on some sort of clear plastic post. Does anyone know what this might be, and where I might find it? Or have a suggestion of what to use to raise them away from the mat?

I've mounted lures for this customer in the past, but we've always just stitched them down through the hooks, etc.

I told customer I'd look into this and get back to him.
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There is a company called Plastruct that makes all kinds of tubes and plastic parts for building architectural models. I believe what you are referring to is their small tubes with holes in them that a thread can be fed through and then around the lure and back into to the tube. The tubes come in many colors and the lure will look like it is sitting on a pedistal and can be glued into a hole in the mat and foamboard so it is standing up like a post. The tubes are in sizes as small as 3/64 and 1/16 all the way up to very large tubes. This is probably the way your customer's lures were mounted. If you can't figure it out by this description, call me.
www.plastruct.com/
 
Pat Kotnour said:
There is a company called Plastruct that makes all kinds of tubes and plastic parts for building architectural models.
www.plastruct.com/
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Thanks, this is helpful. I'm going to have the customer bring in one he already has framed so I can take a look at it first, but I was just trying to figure out some options beforehand so I had a general idea of what I could try to match what he had.
 
What kind of fishing lures are they? Fly, wood?

The plastics maybe locally available a plastic fabricating shop in your area.

I have seen them mounted on piece of cork too.
 
RParrish said:
What kind of fishing lures are they? Fly, wood?

The plastics maybe locally available a plastic fabricating shop in your area.

I have seen them mounted on piece of cork too.
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I haven't even seen the ones to be framed yet - at this point just gathering information. When the customer comes in to pick up the other framing he left I was going to talk to him about what options I could think of for mounting them as to how he specified.
 
Pat Kotnour said:
There is a company called Plastruct that makes all kinds of tubes and plastic parts for building architectural models. I believe what you are referring to is their small tubes with holes in them that a thread can be fed through and then around the lure and back into to the tube. The tubes come in many colors and the lure will look like it is sitting on a pedistal and can be glued into a hole in the mat and foamboard so it is standing up like a post. The tubes are in sizes as small as 3/64 and 1/16 all the way up to very large tubes. This is probably the way your customer's lures were mounted. If you can't figure it out by this description, call me.
www.plastruct.com/
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Pat, sounds like a good idea. There may be other good applications for these. I could see something like this as an addition to your line of products.
 
If they are fishing flies try this approach. It has worked for me. Bend a "T" pin at the appropiate length perpendicular to the "T". Push this thru the mat or fabric covered foam board from the back and bond to the backside with hot melt glue. Impale the fly on the pin. Done! Space the board away from the glazing with one of the 10 sizes of FrameSpace up to 3/4 inch airspace (Shamefull plug I'll admit)
 
I am quite familiar with Plastruct. You can generally find it at a good hobby shop that sells model railroading supplies.

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This steel mill along with many others were built by my "Uncle" Dean Freytag. He was also know as Mr Plastruct.
 
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