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lamb of god. <--- period.

its really bugging me that i can't remember what commercial part of this song is in. anybody know?

then why not get one of each?

basswood and balsa are awesome for carving (balsa would be better if you're stuck using a knife). my favorite carving tool is my dremel with a tungsten carbide structured tooth grinding bit. this thing takes off wood like nobody's business. after i do the rough carving with the tungsten carbide, i go back over it with a 150 grit sanding drum, then after that i do final shaping with sand paper by hand. but a combination of a sharp knife, coarse file (for harder woods like basswood), and various grades of sandpaper will give you a good result too. you could go to a craft store and buy a wood carving knife, which is basically a small sharp blade on a large wooden handle. this gives you a lot of control over the blade, versus a regular pocket knife where the blade is just as long as the handle. i've found one of those folding box cutter knives work great for a wood carving knife because they have big handles compared to the blade, and you can put in sharp razor blades and then flip them when they start getting dull and then just replace them when both ends are dull.

try using the end of a drill bit dipped in black paint

lookin good

a good example of why you should test before you finish

i agree

regardless of which is more important, go with a St. Croix Avid 7' M power F action and be happy.

the same is true of just about any Lamb of God song.

haha i have the album playing right now and that song is on as i read your post.

rocks.

as soon as you mention volume it gives it away, i didn't even have to click on it... :-/

haha well i'll be darned if this wasn't just covered... ;D

or maybe i'll grow it out to be like 3lbs and then put a hook in it and say i caught the state record. :-X

lol i noticed it yesterday, i thought it was pretty funny that their form of "getting noticed" worked hahaha

osteology is cool. i really like cleaning bones and stuff.

well if i had dermistid beetles i'd clean and preserve the skeleton, but since i don't have the beetles i can't... :-/

package came today. WOW! thanks a bunch fishindaddy, lots of great stuff in there. truly a class act!

yeah! my bluegill is such a fatty it eats sooooo much!

yah its expanded PVC. Lowes sells it with their trim boards and other mouldings. the stuff i got at lowes is pretty crappy though. i wouldn't recommend it. its soft, breaks easily, and doesn't sand smooth. the good stuff is called AZEK and i don't know where you'd find that.

yup, www.tackleunderground.com

mink oil for just waterproofing/conditioning them right? i don't want my boots mirror shiny but i do want to keep em nice and black and a little shiny, so i guess just a little bit of Kiwi will do the trick right? i'm not gonna spend 3 hours and 87 billion layers on them, but just enough to shine them up.

i'd use devcon 2-ton. 20 min working time and dries clear.

you will have better luck searching around in the Tacklemaking section. i think you're in for more of a project than you expected