Here is my personal favorite way to paint your jig heads; first, like RT said, you must paint a white primmer coat on your head. Use only bright "white". I use a bright white finger nail polish to prime my jig heads. It dries in just a few minutes witch really helps. Then finish wrapping your jig and make your final tie. Instead of putting a clear tie sealer on the final wrap, I use my most favorite color of finger nail polish to paint the head and seal my tie all in one step. This method also will eliminate the need to buy all those different color threads that a guys uses to match the jig wrapping. I almost use nothing now buy plain white nylon thread that you can buy in bulk from craft shops. A zillion yards for just a few bucks! When you paint that final coat on the head, you also paint the white thread. The white thread then turns the same color has your head when painted.

You won't believe how great it works until you try doing it that way. You can get almost endless colors of nail polish for almost nothing. You can even get nail polish in the glow colors too. It also comes in glitter colors.

Try doing a few this way and let me know if you like it or not. One bottle of nail polish will do about 100 heads. Can't beat the price if you tie your own heads!

Cowlitzfisherman
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