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Location: Bloomer, Wi | This is my winter project that I started on December 8th. I have roughly 70-80 hours working on it. I literally cut down the Bass wood tree in the woods an skided it out with a tractor, roughed it out with a chain saw and finished it up with a sander. A very good friend of mine who is a taxidermist helped paint it. It is 60"x 27". Word of advise to anyone thinking of doing something like this is just be patient.
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Location: davis,IL | Pretty impressive, now it's just a matter of actually catching one that big! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Nice job!! |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Very cool Joe! You've done a lot with it since I saw it this winter (looked about like the 1st picture). I would figure out a way to make it look like it is following the boat when you are guiding this year. Might get some repeat customers hoping to catch the new world record.
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| Thats Awesome ! Nice job ! |
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Location: Rhinelander. | Just think if you put hooks on it and trolled it..........hang on to the rod!!!!!!!!!!! very nice work......Pfeiff |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Nice work could you make a couple more :~)
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| Question, did you let the wood dry and season before doing this?
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | I let it dry for about 4 months in my friends basement next to his wood stove -very dry. Luckily he never burned it.
I would like to try another one with a lot of detail maybe tail walking, trying to throw a bait .
I also made a carving off a bulldawg that is going to be in front of this last carving its waiting to be painted.
This was my way to stay connected to muskys during the winter.
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| That is pretty cool Joe. I cant even imagine the work that went into that. |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | Next one will hopefully be a 360 mount but will probably be a litlle smaller, but will have a base with sand/rock maybe driftwood or something. But then need a spot to put it. |
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Location: The desert | Nice work....could you describe with a little detail how you went about doing this? Tools, measurements, etc. Also perhaps you could recommend a good wood to carve with? |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | Well I have a good friend that does amazing chainsaw carvings and wanted to do my own, he just uses a chainsaw. I kinda wanted more of a replica look. I just used a belt sander with a ton of sanding belts 4o grit and 120 for some what finish sanding, a dremel tool for introcut detail. The wood is bass wood very easy to sand, in fact it was drying in my basement for a while and my dad and I were playing pool and when the cue ball jumped off the table on the break it hit the fish and put a good dent in it, that I had to sand out. Cedar would work but good luck finding a big enough piece. As far as accurate measurements I just went by memory what I thought all the muskys I caught in the past looked like. the teeth are made from a taxidermy putty that sets up in 30 min or so. |
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Location: SW MI | Simply amazing! That thing is awesome |
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| Pretty cool! |
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| Awesome job!!!!!! |
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Location: WESTERN WI | Awesome work Joe. When did u decide that carving a musky out of wood was something you wanted to try? These would sell pretty good too, although I am sure it would tough to really put a price on something you worked on like that. |
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| Did you make the fins seperate and glue them on? Or is that one peice of wood? Awsome job! |
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Location: Bloomer, Wi | I was really hoping to catch a replica worthy musky last year so I could have a big musky on the wall , but when I didnt I thought this would be cool to try. We have so many deer heads that you dont realize a musky hunter lives here too.
and the fins are made out of cedar they were glued on seperatly. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | Way cool Joe; real piece of art. |
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| Now that is impressive! |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | Very cool Joe..... How you been?
Hey we gotta get out this year... ring me up if you want to hook up some time. 715-579-7463. |
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Location: ohio | nice work  |
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| That is awesome. I would freak out when I started painting. I would be terrified that I would mess up. |
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