new decoy project...

[Laska]

So I decided since elwood gave me some nice cedar n some tin I'd give it a go on making some sunfish decoys, here's my first attept

[Laska]

The leads in!

[merkman]

Sweet.

Sunfish are hard to get to swim good.

[Laska]

It swims really good actually, just need to put the lead in the body deeper, least that's what I did and she swims great, can't wait to get some epoxy to put the fins in permanently, then paint!

[Gordie]

SWEET

[merkman]

SWEET

Hey Elwood, I would ask him for your wood back, at least the wood that one was made out of anyway.

[Gordie]

all ready got to that merk

[bassNspear]

awesome stuff

[Laska]

Workin on 2 diff northerns and one more sunfish, this wood is incredible beautiful color, when I hit that sunfish with clearcoat the wood got dark and showed a lot more of the grain, looks like some of these are just getting clear coats

[Laska]

Here are some pics

Northern, getting fins and lead tonight

Sunfish with all fins...

Perch that I finished, had a 20" bass nail this thing yesterday

[fisherking01]

Oh, no an addiction to woodworking starting.... Very nice Laska, there are some awesome woods out there, and many represent a fish like no other! I have some various woods I would be happy to send you if you want to continue the natural edition carvings!! Got some awesome red elm, walnut, ash, oak, maple, all harder woods to work than cedar though!! Keep up the good work!!

[Laska]

Ive carved wish walnut and oak before- o man those are hard, but I dont really have to worry about cracking, yeah think Im addicted to carving decoys now... Time consuming but I enjoy it alot, more than welcome to send me some wood, I know you'll get some carvings in return

[fisherking01]

drop me an address at fisherking01 at yahoo dot com, and i'll pack some up and send it to you!

[Gordie]

laska that sunnie is turning out great and you know I love that perch. How long is that pike decoy going to be? BTW that fin material looks familar

[bassNspear]

im excited to see what its going to look like painted!

[Laska]

laska that sunnie is turning out great and you know I love that perch. How long is that pike decoy going to be? BTW that fin material looks familar

Yeah I thought the fin material looked familiar too lol, I got 2 different northerns, one shaped like a bear creek n that one is 10 1/4" long and the one in the picture with fins goes exactly 12" long. I have no idea what kinda paint job I'm going to do, any input would be awsome! Thinkin of doing one natural pike and no idea for the other, the sunfish will be natural pumpkin seed colors- more color than a bluegill. The other sunfish I'm thinkin chartreuse with red dots and I got one more northern I just need to add fins too n that one is getting shipped up north

Fisher email sent

Ill post pics of the nords soon, should be pickin up epoxy tomorrow

[shamalex72]

Looking good. What kind of paint are you using? I picked up some oil paint and have been exprimenting with that.

[rattlem'up]

ok laska that perch looks awsome! can't wait to see the sunfish. shoot me an email breakdown55336 @ hotmail . com

[Laska]

Looking good. What kind of paint are you using? I picked up some oil paint and have been exprimenting with that.

I use appLe barrel acrylic paint it can be reduced by water and is permanent, had the best luck with it with no runs.

Rattle- email sent

[Gordie]

any input would be awsome! Thinkin of doing one natural pike and no idea for the other,

for that pike I would try floresenct orange/blue and white

[Laska]

Originally Posted By: Laska

any input would be awsome! Thinkin of doing one natural pike and no idea for the other,

for that pike I would try floresenct orange/blue and white

That would be a crazy lookin decoy, but I could do it, just picked up epoxy so The painting process should be getting started late tonight... Sounds like I gotta make another perch too so heres that one too...

lots of pictures...

Another sunfish in the works...

12"nord witt all fins

Next perch

Bear creek anyone? Fatter, faster, better...

And a special thanks to gordie!

[Laska]

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[pikestabber]

Elwood or Laska...

If you don't mind sharing, what kind of fin material do you use? I have some hammered aluminum that gets me by, but I know it is not ideal... Thanks.

[Laska]

Rolled siding aluminum, copper valley tin, and old air conditioner back metal, it all works great! I prefer copper the best for cutting, but they all work about the same as fins... .035 or .025 dia, I think is what it is

[Gordie]

Yep diddo