I like to tie my own bucktails because I can select jigs with strong and sharp hooks.  I also like to tie my own bucktails because I can tie custom color patterns.  However, I did not tie them often because of the time it took me to manually turn my jigs while the epoxy cured.  While paper prototyping a motorized device to turn my bucktails (1/4 oz to 5 oz), I decided to try UV epoxy.

I decided to go with Solarez UV Resin (medium viscosity) and the UltraFire UV Flashlight (with rechargeable Li batteries!).  Whenever working with epoxy, wear plastic gloves!  And when working with UV epoxy, were 100% UV blocking sun glasses.  Even though you are working with a small batches of epoxy, I would highly recommend doing this in a ventilated area.

While wearing a pair of 100% UV blocking sun glasses, focus the UV light on one section for 10 second, and then rotate.  Once cured, the Solarez forms a hard layer that holds and protects the wrapped threads.

The Solarez UV Resin and the UltraFire UV Flashlight allow me to efficiently tie bucktails in half of the time, which is more valuable than the price difference between regular epoxy and UV epoxy.  Time is fish!