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This one looks like it would run really well. Nice work, CA. -
From poplar, graduated hooks (5/0, 4/0, 3/0), custom homebrew eyes, Amber Watercolor pattern. -
From poplar, graduated hooks (5/0, 4/0, 3/0), custom homebrew eyes, Amber Watercolor pattern. -
From poplar, graduated hooks (5/0, 4/0, 3/0), custom homebrew eyes, Amber Watercolor pattern. -
The red/orange nose is a nice touch! -
I also consider this to be excellent work and I think the size is going to be particularly deadly for musky when the topwater bite is on. Very clean work. -
Thank you, diemai. j, I use enamel paints most of the time. It dries faster and I just find the stuff easier to work with overall. -
Carved from sintra signboard. Can be both trolled and cast. The "Stubbydude" is a big musky producer for me. -
Carved from sintra signboard. Can be both trolled and cast. The "Stubbydude" is a big musky producer for me.
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What do you call an immature walleye? A spike? A hammer handle?:teef: This one is about 6 inches long, carved from western red cedar and lightly weighted. The lip is bent to keep the bait operating pretty much as a twitch bait, running about 12 to 18 inches deep over submerged weeds. I hope you like it and I hope the muskies like it too. I'm getting excited about the 09 season. -
What do you call an immature walleye? A spike? A hammer handle?:teef: This one is about 6 inches long, carved from western red cedar and lightly weighted. The lip is bent to keep the bait operating pretty much as a twitch bait, running about 12 to 18 inches deep over submerged weeds. I hope you like it and I hope the muskies like it too. I'm getting excited about the 09 season. -
What do you call an immature walleye? A spike? A hammer handle?:teef: This one is about 6 inches long, carved from western red cedar and lightly weighted. The lip is bent to keep the bait operating pretty much as a twitch bait, running about 12 to 18 inches deep over submerged weeds. I hope you like it and I hope the muskies like it too. I'm getting excited about the 09 season. -
Excellent question. I'm a big proponent of proper lighting. It makes my life easier both in the paint shop and at my work bench where I install screw eyes, lips, etc. There are "daylight" bulbs that can be purchased for florescent lighting. It allows you to see the natural colors of the paint you're working with. The florescent lights actually apply a light green tint to whatever they illuminate. (Photographers actually use a filter to correct florescent lighting and they hate working with it so they avoid it whenever they can.) I have a pair of the "daylight" bulbs lighting up my paint booth. I use them in concert with the overhead florescent and a "desk lamp" which is on an adjustable boom. Makes a big difference. Other than that, just make sure you have plenty of light from whatever source you can get and use and make sure it is as close to your work as possible..
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Awesome! Nice work! -
It might be a good idea to test any glitter you intend to spray through an airbrush before you actually put it in the airbrush to spray it. Some glitters react with solvent-based mediums such as automotive clear and others. The glitters actually melts in the medium.
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Carved fm western red cedar, orange tiger with a color shift to purple on the lower sides. Hope you like it. Orange tiger is one of my favorites for musky. -
Carved fm western red cedar, orange tiger with a color shift to purple on the lower sides. Hope you like it. Orange tiger is one of my favorites for musky. -
I built this one with an almost neutral buoyancy for casting. Cut from poplar, iridescent gills and fins, homebrew eyes. -
I built this one with an almost neutral buoyancy for casting. Cut from poplar, iridescent gills and fins, homebrew eyes. -
I saved so much money on lures by building my own paint booth, I'll built two of them. I liked the second one much better.
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That thing has some excellent lines. I love the eye on it too. I can't believe that's rattle can painting. You are amazing. -
"Smell that? That's envirotex lite....Nothing else in the world smells like that. God, I love the smell of envirotex in the morning."
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Thanks. I use a template to make the lip. I leave the template rubber cemented to the lip during the clearing process. The only portion of the paper template that I remove is that portion of the template which needs to be removed in order to install the lip. The paper keeps fingerprints and epoxy from marring the lip itself during the top coating process. -
This is a color pattern that has been good to me at Leesville which is one of Ohio's top musky lakes. Hope you like it.
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This is a color pattern that has been good to me at Leesville which is one of Ohio's top musky lakes. Hope you like it.