First attempt at custom painted eyes
Xtreme Muskie Lures
Posted 1/29/2011 10:44 PM (#478585)
Subject: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Ohio		Here's some eyes that I painted. What do you think? They look better in person, but I think they still look pretty good.

Thanks,
Greg

www.xtrememuskielures.com



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SolarFall
Posted 1/30/2011 2:43 AM (#478599 - in reply to #478585)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Finland		those look very nice, how big are those ?
muskyslayer96
Posted 1/30/2011 6:56 AM (#478608 - in reply to #478585)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes





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Location: Madison, WI		Greg, I agree, kind of hard to tell from the pic....send them to me for a closer look

Greg those look AWESOME!! I'd love to hear more about how you did them!

MS
Xtreme Muskie Lures
Posted 1/30/2011 7:22 AM (#478611 - in reply to #478608)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Ohio		Thanks for the compliments. The top ones are 12mm (just under 1/2") and the others are 5/8". I have 13.5mm (just over 1/2") and 18mm (.7 inches) coming. I am going to use these on all of my baits now. They are not hard to do, even my 5 yr old daughter and wife did some. We used acrylic paints.

These eyes are the clear acrylic eyes you can buy from like Lisa and Ed's. You then paint the backside for the different colors. They show through very nice. The difference with these eyes is that you have to drill out a hole in the baits to counter sink them, but I think they look a lot better.

I will get a video out on YouTube so you can see how easy they are. Any future orders will have these on my baits too..Just a little something added!

Thanks,
Greg
www.xtrememuskielures.com
muskyslayer96
Posted 1/30/2011 7:32 AM (#478612 - in reply to #478585)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes





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Location: Madison, WI		Greg,

Thanks, Nice work! Can't wait to see the video.

MS
Xtreme Muskie Lures
Posted 1/30/2011 7:42 AM (#478613 - in reply to #478612)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Ohio		Thanks. Here's a picture of an unfinished 8" brown perch with the eyes set in the bait.




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Xtreme Muskie Lures
Posted 1/30/2011 7:56 AM (#478616 - in reply to #478613)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Ohio		Here's a larger picture.


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Xtreme Muskie Lures
Posted 1/30/2011 8:24 PM (#478740 - in reply to #478616)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes




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Location: Ohio		Here's a link to how I painted the eyes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZG1407VdVQ

Thanks,
Greg

muskyslayer96
Posted 1/31/2011 4:00 AM (#478777 - in reply to #478585)
Subject: Re: First attempt at custom painted eyes





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Location: Madison, WI		Greg,

Awesome video....Thanks for posting!

MS