a present

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My mate, Rich (& fishing buddy) has a big Birthday. So I made him this. Want to thank everybody on this site for all your fantastic info, advice, pictorial lessons & videos that made lure-making possible for me. Particularly FJR, thanks mate.. Without all your generosity this would not have been possible. Jim.

Wow! Nice work man

WOW!!!!! nice

very very nice, love the idea, and love your slope head swimmers

Etch

Very nice

Came out great good job

Thanks for the nice comments, chaps. But you lot, as I said, were my inspiration. I thought it was an idea you would like, so I posted it. Can't claim credit for thinking it up, either. My mate Shaun, who is a keen pike fisher, gave me the idea when I gave him a plug to try.. said it was ''too pretty & he ought to frame it!"
I put hooks on, originally but they just dangled about & seemed to clutter up the picture, so I removed them & it gave a cleaner style to it that I like.
The frame is a real cheap one that I bought in a bargain shop in town, less than $10 for it , the glass & the card border. Then a strip of pine 1" x 3/8" to give the depth, lined with a strip 1" x 1/8", which holds the glass up front & creates a new recess in which the original back card fits (the little aluminium retaining strips are easy to pull out & reseat with a tap or two). The background is just a huge 'scale' stencil cut from paper & airbrushed on to plain white art paper (they look a bit more like bubbles though!), with another one for his age over the top. So it didn't take long to do & I'm glad you like it. Hope Richard does, too.
Jim.

Very well done. I'm sure your friend will be very pleased with it. Glad to have been a help !!

Damn that is one sweet piece of artwork

Great work again, you have alot of talent.