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| After making a copper wall sculpture of topwater muskie follow earlier this spring, I had to take the muskie inspiration a little further and do a full 3-dimensional underwater still life. It is half scale, so the base is 24"x48" and the copper muskie is 26" long. Enjoy.
Ryan
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Location: Lockport, IL | That's some nice work there. How long does something like that take you to make? |
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Location: Big Falls MN | Thats is awsome wouldnt mind having one for myself
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Location: st. croix county, wisconsin | WOW! Nice work man! |
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| Is that all you got?.. I think that's amazing, hope you and some future clients get to see that on a sales floor soon!
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| Very nice Ryan, did not know you had any other skills besides taking my money on LOTW. You need to consider taking this a step further. Steve |
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| WOW! That is awesome! Nice work man!!! |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Amazing to say the least, Great talent you have there. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Very cool, really nice work.
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| Thanks guys. This sculpture took me 6 weeks, but that was on top of my regular load of engineering classes, finals, etc. I didn't keep good track of hours on it, but I'd guess that if it was all I was working on it would probably be well over 100 hours. Now that summer is here, I'm going to be taking this a little further and making some stuff up to hopefully pay for a future fishing trip up north. Not sure how much real interest is out there, but I guess I'll find out.
Steve, thanks, and yes sometimes I even surprise myself, and other times it's more about luck than skill.
Ryan
Edited by Fishwizard 6/2/2011 9:44 AM
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Location: Oconto Falls, WI | I agree that is way cool! Interested in seeing you future sculptures! |
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| Wow that looks really cool! Nice work. I think a copper muskie mount would be pretty cool |
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Location: Warroad, Mn | Ryan: How about copper reproductions? Might be interested. Doug Johnson |
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| Doug,
I'm certainly going to try to work towards that kind of detail, but I really don't think I'd be able to touch what your average taxidermist can accomplish with a fiberglass mold and an air brush as far as true reproductions go. That said, I think I can create whole underwater muskie scenes, or any other species, that would be scalable from life-size to miniaturized desktop sculptures. I’m really just beginning to scratch the surface on some of the ideas I have in the back of my head. And if anyone has something in mind they’d like to see I could probably work it out as well. There was some interest in the topwater wall piece that I posted a few months ago, but at the time the thought of making more for other muskie nuts simply wasn’t in my schedule. That has now changed. I have enough friends that think this stuff is cool and want to see more, but as far as guys actually buying something muskie related that doesn’t help them catch more muskies is a bit of an unknown to me. We are a small and unique community of individuals, so that sort of deal can be very hard to judge, and many guys have certainly thrown a lot of money and time away on what seemed like a great idea to them at the time. All I can say I guess is stay tuned and I’ll see what I can shake out.
Ryan
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Location: Columbus, Georgia | Extremely creative. That's a great work of art. |
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Location: WI | I've seen some awesome pike (looked like a musky) and walleye scuptures made out of metal and soup can lids. I think they were $350-400. That is some quality work you've created, I hope you do well on the sale (if it's for sale). |
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| That is really a nice piece. I would look into getting it in front of some of the decorators that work on 1 to 5 million dollar "cottages" in Wisconsin and Minny. That crowd doesn't blink at spending 3 to 5k on decorative pieces. The trout crowd out west has some really big dollars too. Get some staged, high quality photos and send them out to some galleries and you could end up with a lot more free time to fish than an engineering career would afford you. Good luck |
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| Dang now that is very cool great work |
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