This bait may never get wet but I just had to show it off. Our local Cancer Society has a holiday auction each year and this will be my donation to this years auction.

5" Musky crankbait, stailness steel hardware, square Lexan lip, hand painted with a 4 coat epoxy top-coat. It will be in a wooden presentation box.

Thats amazing! did you paint those stars by hand?!

that is what I am talking about!!!!!!  That would make for an AMAZING display piece!!!

I had a hand painter of lures offer to paint me a crankbait like that but he never came thru for me.. oh well... I am glad to see someone is going to get a chance at a patriotic work of art

AL

mr whittler,

sir, that is just absolutely BEAUTIFUL!  GREAT WORK!

i'd really like you to make me some "fishable" crankbaits.   pm sent

justtrying

ronnie

Beautiful job John,

I've framed the two crank baits I've recieved from you in a shadow box. Hung them in my den. I will be airbrushing my first baits this weekend. I'll post some pictures soon. It's great to have such a talented gentlemen on this site. Gives all of us beginners someone to emulate. Thanks for sharing your beautiful work.

thomas

whittler, that's beautiful.

Nice work.

Whittler,

Did you airbrush the epoxy?

thomas

Thank you gentelmen for your comments on my bait.

BA13, no I did not paint the stars, they were punched out of white plastic tape with a star shaped punch and applied.

Thomas, the epoxy was brushed on then turned on a drying wheel. Spraying requires thinning of epoxy and I do not like to thin epoxy if it can be avoided.

whittler kb here how about this one

or this one

hi kb, did you paint those? That's awesome!

KB, those look great to me, you are one talented dude.

Looking at you profile, we can't live 2 hours apart, I'm just about 40 miles south of Ft. Wayne.

how ironic would it be if you caught a snakehead or pacu on that?

whittler   your the one with talent  not me   this winter you will have to come down to monticello  so i can pick your brain about crankbaits kb

heres a couple more same thing but different  names

KB and Whittler... both of you are very talented!  Beautiful!

hey whittler     you getting any ideas   from  gotta  love it   avatar   man thats a cool  avatar      like a popperbait  kb ;D

KB, sounds like a plan to me, give it a whirl.

Beautiful work Gentlemen,

thomas

WOW! Nice Work Whittler and KB. Do either of you sell the lures you make? If so I would appreciate a PM with contact info and prices.

Thank you,

Tom

nice, i made a couple of lures but nothing like that! :-/

Those are some sweet looking things right there! I love to see stuff like that. GREAT WORK! Thanks for the picture!

buster kbkindle here glad to here you are making some lures. man once you start you cant quit. allways trying to make a lure look different. and better good luck kb

What about us Air Force fellas?  No bait for us?  MAN WHERE'S THE LOVE?

GREAT LOOKING PAINT JOB GUY'S !!!!!!!!

Eric

Very nice detail work guys. Very impressive