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An 8 1/2 inch shad crank...tried to get a watercolor effect on this one.  Seven inch twitch bait.  Carved six inch shad bait, Tennessee shad, white pearl sides and bottom.  Copper/black jerkbait, a prototype that seems to run well. Six inch, 1 5/8 ounces.  | |||
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Are you selling any baits? if not post your adress and the times you are at work!  | |||
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| Thanks, you guys. Musky Snax, I appreciate your comment. I've been watching your stuff for a long time. You've got some of the finest and I especially like the carvings you do. They look good enough to fillet and eat. I especially like Beav's stuff too. As to selling them, I would like to but I make so few it wouldn't be practical. I give a few to friends and fish with the rest. I'm pretty new at this building stuff and I'm still experimenting with different bait types and the airbrush so I don't make enough of any one bait to actually start selling them yet. Maybe in the future. Just havin' fun now. Here's a popper I'm hoping will work for muskies. I've got to add a dressed bucktail to the tail of course:  | |||
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Posts: 4266 | "Make a few for me and my friends." Just a hobby, right? We all started that way. Beautiful stuff. You would have no trouble selling the hell out of those. Beav Can tell you're new at this....your hands are waaaay too clean! Edited by Beaver 5/12/2006 10:07 AM | ||
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| Beautiful Work!! I've seen foil like that before. Are you Joe Petermans brother who was lost in stormy weather off the coast of Zansabar?? No really, great job!!  | |||
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This one is 12 inches long. It can be casted but I'll probably just troll it. So far, it doesn't seem to have a top speed. It was trolling it at 6 mph the other day and it ran fine.  This is a twitch bait that I just finished testing. Six inches long... It twitches like monkey on acid. The nose and shoulders have only a subtle hint of blue over the green but the camera seems to pick up the blue more for some reason (Gotta get a better camera) Can't wait to throw it near the weeds:  | |||
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| Here's a few more... Six inch magnum flatshad...  3 1/2 inch mini in jade green..  4 1/2 inch in yellows and browns..  Six inch blue/chrome/foil in a sort of a perch pattern...  | |||
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| Pamuskyhunter, I'm also interested in building jerkbaits but I've got to get a lathe and I've had a hard time figuring out which one I want so I've sort of put it off. Crankbaits require only a small bandsaw, which I picked up at yard sale last summer, and also you'll need a good table model belt sander which runs about $90. Then there's polycarbonate for the lips, a good airbrush and a few dozen colors of paint, the screw eyes for hook hangers, the eyes, which I buy rather than paint on, some split rings, some hooks. Its like building bucktails...if you build about a million of them, you might begin to break even... | |||
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