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Location: South-Central VA | So I got the idea to wrap my muskie blanks in snake skin. I've been doing it on rods for awhile and this seemed like a natural step to move on to lures. I picked up a bunch of skin at the ICRBE in Hight Point back in Feb and I'm getting around to playing with on some lures. Here's number 1. It's 8", about 3oz, and swims with a nice, wide wobble. And, thank God, it floats!
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Location: On the water | Wow looks real nice!! show us some pictures of the rods!:) |
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Location: South-Central VA | Piker,
Thanks for the compliment. All of my rod pictures are way to big to post. I'll take some tonight and post them in the morning.
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Location: On the water | ok cool:) |
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Location: big cove tannery pa | thats awesome looking. i definitely wanna see the rods also |
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Nice! |
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | Really nice affect. Good thinking on your part!  |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Looks good to me. I bet you could integrate that with some paint and it would look a lot like natural scales. |
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Location: Rhinelander. | what will you guys come up with next? Here I sit on two new lures designs that work well and will to myself. You guys are just getting to good to compete with. The paint jobs I see are off the charts and then real fish skin and now snakes. GOOD JOB GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Location: South-Central VA | Here's some pictures of one of my rods. It's an 8' swimbait rod that I built for myself. This rod has cobra skin on it. I just did one for a customer with diamondback skin and it came out pretty sweet. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures small enough of customer's rods.
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Location: On the water | that looks real nice! I'd definately get a rod done by you if I was living in the USA. |
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Location: South-Central VA | I'd build one for you, what's the shipping cost over there? LOL
I have a bunch more pictures, better quality pictures, but my website isn't done yet. It will be a few weeks.
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Location: On the water | Shipping alone is over $100.. |
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Location: South-Central VA | Ouch, that's crazy! |
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Location: Norway | *insert a lot of profanity here* thats a nice looking rod!! As mentioned on another forum, the bait is way cool to!
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Location: APPLETON, WI | wow. Very impressive! |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Woah that snake skin is on a whole new level.. Just awesome
Sooo how much would it cost to get a rod done like tha?
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Location: South-Central VA | JakeStCroixSkis - 3/29/2010 2:36 PM
Woah that snake skin is on a whole new level.. Just awesome
Sooo how much would it cost to get a rod done like tha? ;-)
Depends on what you are looking for. The cost is mostly determined by the blank you choose. Or, snake skin can be inlaid on a factory rod. Shoot me a PM.
jeremy
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Location: SE Wisconsin | DUDE! This is some seriously awesome work! |
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Location: South-Central VA | Sam, PM sent. |
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Location: Probably Minnesota that time... | AWESOME, great idea, very cool....nice job!
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Location: big cove tannery pa | wOW YOU HAVE SOME SKILL MAN |
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Location: South-Central VA | Got another snake skin lure done. This guy is the same as the last: 8", @3oz, but this one dives a bit shallower, probably in the 3-4 foot range. I love the action on this lure, it really hunts. I also like the lighter skin because it shows up great in the water.
I also included a picture of some other lures I made this week. The smaller guys are in the 5" range, the jointed one is about 9", and the deep diver on the right is about 7". The pearls just don't show up well in the pictures. Sorry, I'm not a photographer!
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Location: beloit | those snake skin lures look great! do you sell any of you lure and if so how much? |
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Location: South-Central VA | Fiedler,
My non-snake skin lures sell for $30 and the snakeskin lures are $50.
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