If you were to use a corn cob holder to try to hold those little pieces of paper while tracing, you may find it easier to place. This work is amazing. Makes me want to try it out. Awesome job.
Great video Mikko. I really enjoyed it. The lure looks amazing as usual. I'm glad to see that you are finding time to make these videos. I'm sure you are busy with the new job. I appreciate you taking the time to make videos like this. I look forward to seeing the next one brother. I have a suggestion for you, would you consider making a golden dorado or another saltwater 🦈? Maybe a hammerhead or a tiger shark?
That's a very beautiful bait! I have appreciation for the more traditional ways you use while making your bait's and it's very cool to watch thanks for sharing! Can you do a jointed deep diving crank?
I've been a sub for about a year. Thanks for the content, you are a very talented carver and painter. Your patience is amazing. A suggestion if I may, to make handling the small stencils easier is to cut the stencil as you did, but use the whole stencil holding the large piece on the body then cutting and marking the parts one by one. This might also help to keep the details perfectly aligned. I'm a retired carpenter, an artist and carver of many years. I have always had difficulty marking the face details symmetrically side to side so I usually free hand them. I'm going to start using a stencil to try to get better face details like you always have.
Great build!! I once attempet to make a wooden lure with a chatterbait blade for pike. But all xl , like a body of 16cm and the blade made out of plexiglass fitting the size of the body. The idea was good but I made a mistake with the blade. I think the linety was too high on the blade. Maybe an idea for you play with? Chatterbait xl
Great build as always! Thanks! I am really interested in what your take on a realistic spoon lure would be. Something in the lines of the sebile onduspoon, zazaa pike or rapala minnow spoon.
Very nice .... You might want to try changing the weight distribution of the lure just like you showed on your glide baits. Some have kept the weight in the front of lure so that when you stop cranking the lure it swims or shimmies downward. What that lure can do on the drop or fall can be very important.
Insane as usual! Wish I could buy about everyone you do! How did you make your rotating dry rack? I’m just getting everything to start learning wood, band saw, sander, etc. But using auto clear to dry and need to make a rotating dry rack. Any input on how to make one or do you have a vid on it? Thanks bro
What an amazing crankbait, Mikko, not only in its superb looks and craftsmanship (as always) but also in its swimming performance. I have to think that with that wiggle, it would be a killer on virtually any gamefish species. Speaking of which, does your job not leave you any time for the fishing you loved so much back in Scandanavia? Or, are there simply no productive waters near your new home in Canada? It would do my heart (and yours?) good to see you putting your lures through their paces in ponds, lakes, and rivers. All the best, Chris
The thing is i dont really like filming fishing and also i dont have a small enough camera that i would want to bring with. Thanks for checking out the video
I have not watched one of your videos in a while. Great build and I am always astonished at the realism of your carving and painting. You mentioned that you favor the epoxy you are currently using. Have you tried any UV resin yet? You can cure it in minutes and continue working.
Always a pleasure watching the master at work, going to try some of these myself. nice job bud. why did you leave Finland. did Rapala ask you to leave because you was putting them out of business? ha ha.
Well done! I just want to say that i love the ”tempo” in your videos. It makes them very relaxing, interesting and simply awsome. What sort of 2 part epoxy do you use for topcoat?
Usually i use stainless spring steel. I usually just go by what i think i might catch on a particular lure and have a educated guess what diameter might work the best.
Hello! It is always very interesting to watch your videos! I'm wondering, what do you then send with baits, you probably have a lot of them? Maybe you sell? Doing for sale?
Absolutely stunning, how long has it taken you to get this good? What I can't understand is that all of the delicate painstakingly intricate carving is all leveled out by the epoxy!
Woooooooooah, I bet you could do it with your eye's closed after 25+ years! But it obviously shows in your outstanding craftsmanship. Thank you for replying and take care til next time my friend 👍😷👍🏴
Thank you maestro!!! Big dub i have it'a about the internal wire. When i try to make lure and make some resistenve prouve the wire deform and sometimes exit from the lure. I think it'a Better bind It or weld It. What you think about? Sorry for my primitive english.... 😶
if that happens you are not using strong enough glue. that being said if your fishing in the ocean some of those fish probably are strong enough to pull the wire however strong of a glue you use. in those cases you might be better off wrapping the wire or even weld it.
Very cool. Curious, why don't you work backwards on the gill plate templates. Start from the largest one, then remove each in turn from your pattern? It would be easier to hold at least.
