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Location: Oregon | I just finished this order for a customer and figured you guys would understand the amount of work that went into this. A 100 lures doesn't sound like that much until you start building them in your free time after work. Whew! Wanted to include a couple close shots too but it's pouring rain outside!!
Jed V.
Bikini Bait Co.
Edited by RiverMan 8/31/2007 7:03 PM
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| Great work. Very nice looking baits. |
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Location: Omaha, Nebraska | Jed,
That is some awesome work and they look great. |
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Location: Minnesota | That is some nice work. That black one with orange tail really stands out! You should try putting one or two on the eBay. I have seen this quality go for over $50. That trout looks great too! Hell they all look good.
Nice,
James
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Location: Oregon | A couple of close-ups...sorry for the glare.
Jed
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Location: big cove tannery pa | Vary vary Nice Work! How much for them? |
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Location: Burton, Ohio | Wow Jed those are really really nice!!!!! Fantastic. Man can you paint!!!!! I like the glare on them it shows even more how nice and smooth they are.
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Location: Bloomington, Illinois | I bet the lady of the house is glad they're done too!!!  |
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| Awesome! There must have been some serious time put into completing all those! |
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Location: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan | Jed,
Those are really awesome. I definitely know how much work you put into those, and it shows.
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Very nice Jed! I know how much work goes into what you do and to make that many in one shot of that quality is crazy! |
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Location: Sweden | Nice looking lures Jed.
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| Jed,
Were these purchased by a store that is going to sell them? If so, what store?
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| Jed those look great, but looks are the least of these baits, after 2-3 fish you'll know why Jed makes the BEST glide baits in North America the catch fish and they all work the same, Thanks for the pics Jed |
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Location: canada | just awesome work jed, your paint and gliders are sick, dont know how you do it, an enigma like me gets bored painting more then 3 of the same lol, like i said just awesome work
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| Jed, what can anyone say but....awesome.
I know how much time and effort went into making that many great looking lures, when I was healthy I might have made that many in a year, and probably would have put 20 or so 2'nds in my box.
You should have taken a "before" picture.
100 chunks of wood, all of the hardware, bottles of paint and large chunks of lead and gallons of clear-coat. Then in the corner you could put a time-clock that you would punch and keep track of every minute that you put into the project. I can't imagine how many hours.
Beautiful work, and I for one, can imagine the sigh of relief that you let out when the last one was checked for bubbles as it rotated.
Heck, I was going to make a few 10"ers for the PI Outing, and I'm pooped just from drilling the holes and adding the weights. I must be older than I thought.
Great patterns by the way.
My compliments.
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| Jed!
Those look great!! I bet I know where they are headed!....
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| Jed,
Very nice indeed. I really like those patterns. I am humbled by all the folks on here that live part time in their garage and basements doing what they enjoy. I hope to get the level of painting you all show off here someday.
I think I know where these are going too. I sold over 200 to a customer and it took me a long time to get them all done. The best part of that effort was the picture I got a couple weeks ago of a 48 1/2 incher he caught. Wish I could 10 percent of the places my baits have gone this year.
Don Slagle
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Location: Muskoka Ontario,Canada | Remember that the paint jobs are only the icing on the cake. Jed is also a master at weighting glide baits. He taught me when I got started. |
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Location: Oregon | Thank you very much for the very kind compliments guys. I have been salmon fishing for the last week and am just now getting back to this thread. It's gratifying to have the work appreciated by fellow builders.
Thanks again.
Jed V.
Edited by RiverMan 9/7/2007 10:16 PM
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Location: Oregon | 1. Jed WHO???!!!
2. GARAGE?? Garage, dining room table, coffee table, spare bedroom, kitchen counter.......etc......
3. Crazy? Yes. Definately.--HIM not Me. (ok ok it is debatable)
4. Black paint does not come out of the kitchen sink easily!
5. The worst part--I cannot complain too much! Even I can appreciate the action and paintjobs. Heck. I saw the FIRST ones! They were....interesting--yes, interesting....
Jenifer --the long suffering wife to Jed V.
Edited by RiverMan 9/7/2007 9:59 PM
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| Behind every successful man is a good woman........too bad mine ran away for greener pa$ture$.
At least I still have my 11-year old daughter who plays hockey and loves to fish and wants to learn how to paint lures some day soon. Judging from her school art, she'll be dam good at it.
Weighting is the key. It aint the meat, it's the motion.
I drive the fish in my daughter's aquarium crazy when I'm working on lures. I also love the looks that I get when I find a patch of open water on Lake Michigan in winter and throw lures and have a bucket with a cordless drill in it with about 20 blanks, and I work on the fine-tuning. Anybody can weight them, but not everybody can weight them correctly. I've seen Jeds lures dance. He understands.
I love when guys ask about getting started. You can explain almost every step, but expalining how to weight lures to get them to do different things is something not easily learned or taught.
They sure are pretty though. And Mrs. Jed, you are a good woman for putting up with his passion and standing behind him.
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| Jed, you also make a topwater, no? I think I have one in black. At least I think it's a bikini, Deth something or other. I love that bait. Actually, need to order a couple more.
Oh, and man, I can only dream of painting a bait like that..... |
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Location: Oregon | Yes that's mine whooligan...........I call the topwater "dr. deth".
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| RiverMan - 9/8/2007 9:23 AM
Yes that's mine whooligan...........I call the topwater "dr. deth".
jed v.
I gotta tel you, I'll vouch for the name! One of my favourite baits. |
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