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Location: Chicago | I finally finished my winter project, a first for me at power-carving and airbrushing. It's made out of pine, has glass eyes & homemade teeth. I had bought the wrong paint for the airbrush, it was metallic house paint. Still have to find the right paint for doing fish. I have a few smears & blemishes but still pleased in the way it turned out. It has a marine varnish for top coat. In a few months, I'll start a new one making a Minnesota fish.
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | goreous work. You selling them?
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Location: sw pa | thats amazing work out of wood. bet there is a lot of hours in that! nice paint also |
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Location: Oshkosh | Very nice!
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| That muskie looks amazing. I honestly can't believe what a nice job you did with that. If you were planning on selling it/them you could name your price IMO. I think $500 would be a fair starting bid.  |
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Location: Chicago | Thanks guys for the kind words. I want make one more to see if it was beginners luck. Your right I have alot of hours into it, it took me about 4 hrs just to draw it up. Hopefully on the next I can cut the time in half by learning from the mistakes I made on this one. Bondo fixed alot of the errors. It's been a great way to pass the time while waiting for the weather to warm up. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I'd do one more and start taking orders. I'd love to have one of those in my new house. |
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Location: Hayward, WI | Wow, that is amazing work! Can't believe how realistic it looks.
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Location: Rhinelander. | Very very nice. You are an artist. Keep at it and $500.00 would be cheap. On ebay you'
d do way better then that. But they did say strating price. you have a pm
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Location: Waukesha, WI | I'd have no problems at all hanging it on my wall. Nice job. |
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| Wow! Very, very nice! Excellent craftsmanship! Great paint too! Nice job! |
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Location: Right Here | Truly a piece of art, great job. |
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Location: Pittsburgh PA | That is great craftmanship! nice! is it heavey? |
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Location: Oregon | Wow...........wonderful work!! |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | WOW rob you got skills man!!! that thing looks awesome. you could make some money it looks like from the above. i would make another and see if its as kick a@# as the first. great work!!! |
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Location: Monee, Illinois | Sweet |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI | That is absolutely beautiful. Where can I place my order ?  |
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Location: Roch NY | wow thats amazing. truely is a piece of art!
I love the paint as well. |
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Location: Apollo, PA | you are very talented Rob. i can only imagine what your next projects will look like, they will only get better with practice, which i hope we get to see. Congrats!!
PS I would love to see you do a big Tiger.........
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| Wow that is unbelievable great work |
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| OMG!
Incredible Work, thanks for posting |
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Location: LOTW every chance I get | That is fantastic. Looks like you could give the repro guys a run for their money! |
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| How thick of a piece of wood did you use? Could you shoot a pic from a bird's eye view and post? Just curious... |
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Location: Chicago | Thanks again guys. The muskie weighs 11 lbs.on the berkley digital scale, here's a couple top view pics. The lumber I used was 2"x12". Everything is one piece except for the bottom 4 fins. I went to the lumber yard yesterday and found a great piece of pine for the next project, will start drawing it up this weekend.
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Location: Aurora, IL. | Rob,
That is simply awesome! |
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| hey Rob
my uncle makes decoys in Minnesota. Can you tell me what kind of airbrush you use and where you bought it. I would like to get him a kit including the compressor.
thanks Gary |
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Location: Fishing the weeds | Nice work. |
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Location: Eagle River, WI | Seeing that from the top really gives me alot more appreciation for how good of a job you did painting it. There is really alot of dimension in that paintjob. Nice work. |
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Location: Chicago | Guest - 2/19/2009 3:04 PM
hey Rob
my uncle makes decoys in Minnesota. Can you tell me what kind of airbrush you use and where you bought it. I would like to get him a kit including the compressor.
thanks Gary
Iwata eclipse hp-bcs kit with air hose on E-bay and for the air compressor I used a craftsman 1 hp / 3 gal |
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| Thanks for the info on the airbrush |
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Location: Lincoln UK | Rob, as everyone else has said, very nice work.
There would certainly be a market out there but ever considered carving just a head section? I think there would be a market using the head sections as presentation trophies, hell I'd have one for my pike anglers group (have to be pike color though).
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | With all those hours into it, are you using kiln dried lumber ? |
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| That is talent. Just wonderful work.
Thanks for sharing.
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Location: Chicago | I has some time this weekend to draw it up. I wanted to do something a little different with this one, tail down with a closed mouth. This one tapes out at 67". I'm going to paint it into a Minnesota heavy weight. I had to glue an extra piece of wood at the bottom to get the shape for this one. I'll probably be working on it off and on for the next 2 months.
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| This is a rare piece of musky art work. I’d bet there are not any other examples of a carved wooden musky of this size and detail. The paint ‘mistake’ is what makes this one special. I think it looks better than most replicas (from an art perspective). I’ve carved many 2D muskies and I am sure that a ton of time and effort went into this one. You should not sell it since it is your first one. However, if you were to sell it… $3000 - $5000 is a reasonable price range. |
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| Carved a 2D muskie???? |
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| Man that thing is going to look sweet! Great job on the 1st one and keep us posted up on the 2nd one. |
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| That is truly an attention getter. The longer I look at it the more I love it. Great work!! Can't wait to see the next one. |
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Location: lake x...where the hell is it? | cant wait to see how it comes along. |
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Location: Eau Claire, WI | That is AWESOME...
Personally; I would love to have one of those for the house. What a great alternative to a graphite replica...
Keep following that talent man and let us know where/when we can place orders. |
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| 58"??? I could believe 52, but there is no way that thing is 58. And don't get me started on not releasing it.
Seriously though, EXCELLENT work. A truly impressive piece of art. |
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