First strike lures...bad blade finish.

[Fishonshawn84]

First let me say i really like everything else I have ever ordered from FSL. But... several months ago I put in a semi large order of some spinner bodies and different blades. One of the packs of blades I ordered was the white matte silver. What i got was not what I expected. I've ordered matte silver from other places that is literally silver that just isn't polished to a high shine, but these blades just look kinda painted white. I figured eh..ill keep em anyways. It's a weird looking finish. There was a note in there saying how hard it is to do this finish and how they will tarnish and whatever but I didn't think it'd be that bad...well I tied up 3 spinners and just set them on my shelf. I didn't even fish them last winter. For context, I have spinners and spoons all over my office.. I have boxes and boxes of components and a whole shelf loaded with fishing gear. It's literally a mini sportsmans warehouse in my office. So it's not unusual for me to build spinners or tie jigs and not use them for...years.. i just do it for fun...well, while getting my summer steelhead box together I see the spinners on the shelf and im blow away...they were literally brown. They never saw water...nothing. built them and they sat on a shelf in my office. And they are trash. Worst part is they weren't cheap and I got like 50 of them... I just dont understand what this finish is for...even if you fish the spinner it's going to tarnish pretty quick and then what... id leave a review on the site but I dont see where I can. Now I gota figure out what to do with the other blades I still got..maybe strip them of this crap finish and try to get some metallic paint for them....anyways this is just a warning to NOT order this finish blade from FSL. Here's a photo of what a new blade looks like compared to the spinners I built a few months ago but never fished. I hate getting burned and im pretty irritated for buying so many of these. Think ill just keep ordering from fishermans shack, who btw has actual matte silver finish. Don was just out at the time which is why I ordered these...

 

[infoPoint87]

Oof, that’s rough. Appreciate the heads-up — I was actually considering picking some of those up. Crazy they tarnished that bad just sitting dry. Might be worth trying to strip and repaint like you said, but yeah, definitely a bummer when you spend good money and end up with shelf rust.

 

[maxwyatt]

Maybe some steel wool can clean them up and then hit them with some clear coat to keep them from tarnishing again?

 

[Snopro]

I wonder if an ultrasonic cleaner would knock it off.

 

[Fishonshawn84]

Maybe some steel wool can clean them up and then hit them with some clear coat to keep them from tarnishing again?

You can see on the clean blade a little bit of the finish is kinda scratched and some silver is showing through. Every blade is like that
whatever the finish is, it's thin..so even if I hit it with steel whool I think that would remove most of the white finish on it... which I'll probably end up doing anyways.