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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | wow |
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| nicely done! |
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Location: Norway | Oh yeah! Those are awesome. I think they deserve a bigger image 
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| amazing man. wood has a life of its own. you have done justice |
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Location: Antioch, IL | I really loved this idea when you first started them and they continue to be some of my favorites. Good show Beaver.
Edited by Fish and Whistle 9/23/2012 6:28 PM
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Location: Des Moines IA | How do I get a "God's Gift" 10 inch perka? |
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| First you go to California and find a giant Redwood laying on the ground and bring me a highly figured piece that's 12x5x3/4". I might have some lumber, but it's not all that pretty.
Beav
Edited by Beaver 9/23/2012 8:14 PM
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| Nice natural baits. Cool |
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| Very cool! |
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Location: Finland | they look really lovely nature is great designer  |
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| There is no mother nature. Back when God dropped the seedling from a much older CA Redwood, probably thousands of years ago, He probably laughed and thought,"Wait until Beaver sees the tiny piece of wood that will come from this great tree, and he will be moved and use the gifts that I gave him and he will use the modern tools available to bring forth the beauty that I hid there and he will make a fishing lure that will sing My praises, and depending on My mood, I just might bless him and let him or one of his brethren catch a mighty fish on that lure. Then again, maybe not." |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Heal up and get up here, my friend. You WILL catch a muskies on one of those. |
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| I've decided that whatever becomes of the knee, I'll put off any work on it until hard water.....well, maybe after gill fishing for a while. I'm still hoping to get by without anything kind of surgery, but that's out of my hands. Until then, I plan on being a pain in your ass and I'm not leaving until you make me. I don't know what I'll do the second week. If the weather is right, I'll still be fishing while you're chasing venison. Can always carry a rifle in the boat,right? They do it on 'Swampeople' all da time.
BTW, I found another piece of real nice lumber that's wide enough to make gliders.
Edited by Beaver 9/26/2012 10:18 PM
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Location: Oregon | Beautiful lures..... |
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Location: Minneapolis | nice flame on those. would make a good guitar top. |
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| That's what they use it for. I checked some places looking for short pieces and scraps cuz I didn't have $300 for a 4-footer. A couple guys will even send me pics when they have some wood that's not guitar quality. The lures pictured came from a 5/8" thick piece that I got 7 lures out of, and it came from a scrap pile. If I could afford some of that guitar lumber, I could make some mind-blowing stuff. Due to requests for 10" Perkas, I bought a 4 foot piece that's 7/8" thick, but it has some 'bark inclusions' so it wasn't top quality. I can't wait to see the Perkas I get from it. I already have 15 sucker profile gliders that needed some extra drying before I cut them, and they will be awesome too. They aren't striped, but they have figuring something like an eelpout or a dogfish.
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| Looks like the dayz of affordabl Redwood are coming to an end because the treehuggers in CA would rathe see logs on the ground rot than to let them be used. Used to be you could take a log less than 8' that was fallen by God, as long as you didn't do any damage. Well now they won't even allow that. Guys that took logs were required to plant seedling everywhere they took a log from, but guess what happened? Come on, if you have a brain you know this.....Saplings cant grow without sunlight, so the tree-huggers think the program is no good. Stop it, you log stealers from public land.
I'd never move to California because I wouldn't be able to stand the labotomy required for entrance.
I talked to a guy yesterday who salvaged logs with horses. The logs had to be laid on sleds, and the horses had to wear "boots" as not to do soil damage. What are they going to do when an earthquake takes out 20,000 acres of giant Redwoods? Sing Kumbaya and wait for a mudslide to take more, instead of using safe logging practices and taking out dead trees while they are standing, which wood let light in for the smaller trees. The guy told me that walking through the forests makes him sick because he never sees a sapling over 4-6' before they get shaded out. Even the fact that they won't let them take dead trees off of public land for some unknown reason would tick me off, and I don't make my living doing it.
I've made some nice friends, like "He Who Logs with Horses", and they will sell me some scraps that they have laying around, but my days of buying even 4 foot sections is over. I guess Martin guitars doesn't give a #*#* if it makes some awesome looking lures or folkart. So, I'll have some 'house hangers' coming up and some actual lures, but the end is coming. Not when a 4'x4"x1" piece that I bid on sold for over $200. That would have been 8-10" Perkas. I will get some boards one way or another, because now that I've seen them, I'm not going to let The Eagles stop me from making more.
Send me a PM if you want a wall-hanger or a working model.
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Location: Probably Minnesota that time... | Your statements:Poetry of truth...Matthew 6:25:No worries-straight cash!
Keep posting, he'll take care
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| No worries, I just picked up 2-3 footers and a box full of smaller pieces. Good things happen when you ask.
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Location: Missouri | Those are some beautiful baits.. They have a story itself in the wood. |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Hey Beav,
You have a PM. Those lures are beautiful and the grain makes one speechless.( and a bit jealous) Gods creation at work for sure. |
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Location: Minneapolis | Lots of small luthiers out there that might have "scrap" wood laying around. |
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| I'm going to head outside when the rain stops and take a picture of all the Redwood that I've procured in the last week. Made a few new friends on The Left Coast too. One guy in particular is going through his lumber yard and is piling up all the pieces he has from 5/8" up. What a nice guy. He has no idea what a muskie is, but he thinks its awesome that I'm making lures from his Redwood scraps. 'What next', he said, then asked if I would send him one when they are done.
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