I have been painting eyes on jigs for years, Keep the plastic tops off your water bottles and put a drop or two of paint in it and use a short piece of tygon string trimmer fuel line which comes in about 4 different sizes dip the end in the paint and just touch your jig and boom you have a perfect eye and like some others have said a tooth pick nipped off to your liking will make a perfect pupil. When done just throw your bottle cap away.

I just use two pencils I shave one down, and lightly shave the second then I got the eyes on paper until I get the perfect set.

Toothpicks work good for the small “pupils”. A bamboo skewer works good too. Cut them down to make the dot sizes you want.

Can't wait to put my order in for 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, and 1/4oz. Jigs

Good tutorial, Eric! I use a short piece of wooden dowel about the diameter of a pencil. Both ends are sharpened in a pencil sharpener. Both points are then ground down. One diameter, smaller than the other. These are used to paint like you’ve instructed. If you want an oblong eye with a round pupil, ground down the larger point on an angle.

Thanks Eric. Awesome !

Great way to put eyes on!

You can get this paint from Dollar General also. I did this for years, but with different size nails that I stuck into a wine cork. The nail art styluses work much better, though. When I first started painting, my eyes on. I was using ball jigs, and stick on eyes do not work real well on round jigs.

Gonna try it ! Thanks so much

I like it, thanks!

Have you ever tried using Q-tips I paint my own hard bass lures and I use Q-tips to make the black dots on the side

I will definitely chk out those tools. Nice ! I use a a couple different wooden dowels and for the smaller pupils I use the end of a tooth pick.

Looks great Eric! Love the colors. Heard most guys use the flat back side of drill bits. This seems like it would work easier with the rounded ball tools. Thanks for sharing Eric.

Oh my gosh why didn’t I think of this! I have dotting tools in my craft supplies from working with Polymer Clay. Genius idea!

Excellent jig !

Eric , Thank you for passing that on , I can really see how that will work and a person can mix or match colors ! Take Care and Be Safe

I ordered paint and the dotting tools off Amazon earlier in the week, haven’t had a chance to use them yet. Hope to get in the shop later today to try them out! I like Dennis’ assembly line method; paint it, hang it, move to the next. I bought a small shelf rack to try that, one I can set my UV light on top of to cure them. Fingers crossed for good results!

Great tips and new ideas. I have also seen small diameter silicone fuel line, like used on weed eater and chain saws. Leaves center ( pupil ) same color as jig head. Or you can put small dot of any color in center. Really enjoy your jigs and watching your tying methods. Keep up the great work.

I've been using dot mandala tools which come in a large variety of sizes for years also I've recently got into using my UV nail polish and drying it under a UV light which works really well because you can dot it dry it then dot it with the next color dry it boom done

NICCCCEEE……. I like this idea, a little time consuming but I like it 😃 I like that sweatshirt too Sir!! 😃

Thanks for the quick response. I was really more interested in the Brand.

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Match Shaft, toothpick, WD40 straw.

I been using a paint pen

I just purchased some of these tools and they were like $6 or $7 on Amazon Thanks for the tip.

Seen one video where he used the magnetic tool holder strip from harbor freight to hold multiple jig heads for painting eyes on

I just use Q-tips. Cut one in half for eye and then whittle other half down to a point and that’s the pupil. Dab paint based on size of eye. I do like your way too.

try heat setting with hair dryer makes the paint hard when dry from paint square bills

Love the colors but where do you get the folders it

I’m curious to see if the acrylic paint markers would have the same outcome. Great idea, I’ve made my own 3D eyes with a few different hole punches and UV resin but it take a lot of prep and time to do those. Thanks for the video.

Instead of doing that in a vise I'd lay them all out in a line on a table or counter and go through and do all one side.Then if it's a long enough line,by the time you're done the beginning will be dry and just flip it over and paint it. If you're doing round heads or another type other than the pill you'll have to use a vise or put them in something to hold them from rolling around.

I really like the video that you painting eyes on your jigs. I do have a question though where do you get the bottle of brush on UV?

That looks excellent. I've tried doing this with Toothpicks with cut out circles of foam paper glued to the toothpicks. Your system looks easier & very good. Can you bake the jigs with acrylic paint on the heads?

Eric, what jigs are you using in this video? Thanks so much for the great videos.

go to Micheals and get your paint lot cheaper maybe a couple bucks

What kinda vice do you have ?

Eric how long does it take for that paint to dry?

Looks good. I wonder if before you tie them if you could hang them in a toaster oven to speed up the drying process! Thoughts!

I want to know the name of your vise and where to purchase it.

How well will this work on a round head with no pocket?

#+10k

Heat set the eyes with a hair dryer

Please tell us the name and place to buy that fine vice you are using.

I followed this technique and found out that the eyes wash off in the water because the acrylic paint is water soluble. It needs to be top coated heavily or you need to use other paint. Have you found this to be true also?

What do I order on Amazon to get those tools?

Michael’s craft store has the paint for 99 cents or a pack of 16 bottles for $12.99. I just pick up the 16 pack

we know, most of the color design is for the fisherman, not the fish...lol