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Chasin50
Posted 1/14/2009 5:28 AM (#354916 - in reply to #354881)
Subject: RE: Lets see your replicas...




Posts: 380


Location: Michigan
iowalunger - 1/13/2009 10:39 PM

Congrats to Chadster and Rob S. for having some of the finest looking paint jobs i've seen!


Thanks

I am pretty darn anal, so when I worked with Joe, I wanted to ensure this representaed the fish as closely as possible. If you put a tape on the fish it measures 53.5 x 22, which is exactly what this fish measured in the cradle. It was a summer fish that did not have a fat belly, but it was square like a railroad tie (broad back) and solid (muscular). Joe got it dead on.

Joe is a true artist. When I look at the replica, it doesn't look like a replica, it looks like the fish... He is doing a 54.5 x 23 for me for me currently. When that one hangs next to the 53, I know it will look just a s good and proportionate to the 53. I cant stand looking at grossly inflated replicas. I feel the mounts i have represent the fish as precisely as possibly without killing the fish. It's worth the wait! When I get a 45 or 50 pounder, Joe will do it.

Edited by Chadster 1/14/2009 8:20 AM
GETTHENET
Posted 1/14/2009 7:12 AM (#354919 - in reply to #354394)
Subject: RE: Lets see your replicas...





Location: Madison, WI
I just picked up my 52 x 27 repo from the Chicago Musky Show. Rick Lax did an awesome job! The attention to detail is simply amazing! It is a two sided mount with a wood base that is filled with rocks. I am very impressed.

I would highly recommend Lax for your next reproduction.

http://www.laxreproduction.com/

Adam



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MACK
Posted 1/14/2009 8:15 AM (#354928 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 1080


GETTHENET,

Very, very nice. Thanks for sharing those detailed and various pix. Often times in pix of mounts/replicas, it's very hard to get an idea for size due to not having anything within the photo for comparison, which, you've done for us nicely by putting your daughter in there, and then in addition to that, it's often tough to tell size of a mount/replica due to the different shapes, twists or positions the fish's body has been molded into, but you're various shots show it off perfectly. Very, very nice.
Chasin50
Posted 1/14/2009 8:18 AM (#354929 - in reply to #354919)
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Posts: 380


Location: Michigan
GETTHENET,

That is one of the coolest mounts i have seen. Very cool! I will get a 2 sided mount when I get the fish truly worthy of it... Can you say Cha Ching... Yowzer!
PEteacher44
Posted 1/14/2009 8:28 AM (#354931 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 303


Location: WI
When you post your picture(s), would you put your 'original' picture of the fish along with the replica? It would be nice to see how close the replicas are to the actual fish. Thanks.

Edit: All the the above fish look great! I'm jealous of everyone of them.

Edited by PEteacher44 1/14/2009 8:30 AM
Smokin Joe
Posted 1/14/2009 11:13 AM (#354980 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 311


Here is a mount that Rick just finished before the Chicago Show and will be at other shows this year. He also figured out how to make a splash of water which many of you who were at the Chicago Show saw what he did with McNair's fish.

This mount is baby ducks swimming on water with a musky looking up at them for a quick meal. This one is my favorite!!!!!!!


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MACK
Posted 1/14/2009 11:42 AM (#354990 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 1080


GETTHENET,

If you don't mind saying, or mind me asking, how much more $$$$ did it cost to have your repro done in that 2-sided fashion vs. just a single sided, hanging wall mount on driftwood?

Smokin Joe posts a cool example as well...more of a "theme or concept" reproduction. That's cool too. Even more costly...but...very cool...
Jason Bomber
Posted 1/14/2009 12:23 PM (#355000 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 574


Very cool Adam!

All look good, but the 2 sided idea looks sweet.

Edited by Jason Bomber 1/14/2009 12:24 PM
IAJustin
Posted 1/14/2009 1:58 PM (#355019 - in reply to #354990)
Subject: Re: Lets see your replicas...




Posts: 1970


If you don't mind saying, or mind me asking, how much more $$$$ did it cost to have your repro done in that 2-sided fashion vs. just a single sided, hanging wall mount on driftwood?


According to the LAX website its $19 per inch double sided mounts...only a grand for a fish of a lifetime
GETTHENET
Posted 1/14/2009 7:39 PM (#355071 - in reply to #354990)
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Location: Madison, WI
Mack, I believe Lax charges around $12.50 per inch for a one sided mount and $19 per inch for a two sided. Well worth the extra since you will have it forever.
Don Pfeiffer
Posted 1/14/2009 10:40 PM (#355119 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 929


Location: Rhinelander.
I think the walleyes look better then muskies. Something about the little dimple affect on some of the muskies I don't like. It just does not look like real scales to me. They are beautifully done but that one thing puts me off a little.

Pfeiff
muskyfvr
Posted 1/15/2009 8:54 AM (#355147 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 223


Location: Minn.
52" by Joe Fittante.


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Perfect Drift
Posted 1/15/2009 11:28 AM (#355174 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 155


Thanx Rick Lax!


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Reef Hawg
Posted 1/17/2009 12:09 PM (#355602 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 3518


Location: north central wisconsin
pic's don't show the true color well(lost the blue/purples when flash went off), due to low light. Joe Fittante's work. It's actually a replica of a 2 fish, or one caught twice. My friend caught it on a tip-up in early spring of 2001. I got her on my first ice trip of winter 02/03 with dad, a half mile from where my buddy got it. Joe had trouble skinning a smelt like it ate so he painted a sucker to look like one, and did very well. I bumped the tail of the sucker and broke a piece, hence the home repair on it. Attached is a pic of the second capture, to show how Joe painted certain markings that I noticed upon both captures(the little whale shaped marking above and just in front of fin is one example).

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bobtodd
Posted 1/17/2009 6:51 PM (#355667 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 337


Location: Central WI
Reef Hawg, that pike mount is amazing! How big was that pike?
Chasin50
Posted 1/17/2009 7:27 PM (#355673 - in reply to #355667)
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Posts: 380


Location: Michigan
bobtodd - 1/17/2009 7:51 PM

Reef Hawg, that pike mount is amazing! How big was that pike?


I second that! Very nice!
CiscoKid
Posted 1/17/2009 7:35 PM (#355675 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 1906


Location: Oconto Falls, WI
48" Tiger by Fittante, and a 30" walleye by Ron Lax.

Next fish will be by Lax.


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Mikes Extreme
Posted 1/18/2009 12:24 PM (#355774 - in reply to #354916)
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Posts: 2691


Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin
I will post Joe's(47), Lax(52), and Lake Tomahawk Taxidermy(53 and 57).

Sorry I don't have a good picture of the 57 repo. Going fishing now, no time to get pic and post it. Same as 53 but way bigger.

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jlong
Posted 1/19/2009 1:56 PM (#356024 - in reply to #355774)
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Posts: 1937


Location: Black Creek, WI
Here is my graphite replica from Artistic Anglers.



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JimtenHaaf
Posted 3/8/2009 7:25 PM (#364985 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 717


Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Just got mine back from LAX.




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Sam Ubl
Posted 8/20/2009 9:37 AM (#395040 - in reply to #354394)
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Location: SE Wisconsin
Fittante's work is simply amazing. As close as I look at his work in person, I can't believe just how realistic it is down to every little detail! He's working on a rep for me as we speak - can't wait to see it!
Joe V
Posted 8/20/2009 12:59 PM (#395075 - in reply to #354394)
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I would just like to say that Fittante's stuff really impressed me at the Chicago show.Well worth a grand to have a beautiful fish mount and still have it swimming out there somewhere.
Magic8Ball
Posted 8/20/2009 1:16 PM (#395078 - in reply to #395040)
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Posts: 90


Location: Ohio

These are ALL nice looking Replicas, I hope I get one big enough to warrant a Replica

esox911
Posted 8/20/2009 3:56 PM (#395097 - in reply to #395078)
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Posts: 556


Fantastic replicas !! Looks like there are 2 guys out there doing absolutely quality work--I looked at them over the winter at the shows--I can't wait to get to get that special fish so I can also have 1 of those fine replicas hanging on my wall. Haven't gotten her yet but got a special trip planned for late this fall and I am hoping that is the ticket---maybe even sooner--you just never know 1!
jerken jimi
Posted 8/21/2009 5:06 PM (#395286 - in reply to #395097)
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Posts: 253


Location: Birchwood, WI.
Here is my 49'' tiger done by Sprotsman's Dreams Taxidermy in hayward, WI.


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Bigman
Posted 8/21/2009 7:17 PM (#395295 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 281


Location: ROckford IL
Pretty Tiger Sorno
Dave T.
Posted 8/21/2009 9:19 PM (#395315 - in reply to #354881)
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Posts: 512


Heres my 50.5 and my nephews 50.5. Both done by Joe. love em


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MuskyStalker
Posted 8/21/2009 9:42 PM (#395322 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 317


advanced taxidermy mounts and detail are the best I've ever seen, but they still lack the three-dimensional look of Fittante's painting.
Pointerpride102
Posted 8/21/2009 10:19 PM (#395326 - in reply to #354394)
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Posts: 16632


Location: The desert
Some good looking replicas on here and there are some that I wouldn't have walked out of the shop with because they are pretty bad. I wont name any because I'm sure the owners are happy with them. I've got a 51 done by Lax and am happy with it.
rpike
Posted 8/24/2009 1:12 PM (#395669 - in reply to #354881)
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Posts: 289


Location: Minneapolis
Here's a 33" lake trout I caught in the BWCAW that Fittante did.

p.s. The photo was the day I picked it up at the MN Muskie Expo this spring.

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