Not Taxidermy.............

But very close and probably better as I'm sure it'll last longer than real taxidermy. Let me start with a few years ago when one of the hurricanes swept by I lost a few cedar trees on my property. So I decided to cut them in 10-12 foot lengths & had the hopes of making something from them. Well, since I'm not a woodworker they sat around for a while. I got tired of mowing around the pile of logs & figured I probably wasn't going to do anything with them. I called a friend of mine who does craft things from wood & such to offer the logs to him. He came by & picked what he wanted and said one day he'd make something for me out of the wood. A year or 2 passed and never heard anything about the logs so I figured he just never got to use them like me. I got a call from this guy last week & he said "hey, I got something for you & I'll drop it off at your house in the next few days".

I came home from work yesterday & found this sitting on my porch table.
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Very detailed work & very cool to be made from a piece of wood from a tree on my property.:cheers2

That's outstanding!

Beautiful. I’d much rather have that than a mount. Lots of hours in that for sure.

That’s cool

That’s awesome and way cool story. Better then taxidermy.

That is awsum...
Woodwork and the paint job

That's nice

Very nice indeed. It's funny that you showed that... because I am in the process of making some of that stuff myself.
The problem is: There's so much I want to do that I am having a hard time deciding on just what to do first.
I guess I'm kinda' like "vapor locked". Thanks for sharing a nice piece of crappie art.

Wow, that is too cool!!!!


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Awesome surprise for sure Bryan...that speck has that "Looky Here" dialed in on that jig...nice touch!!

Cool piece to have with some history behind it. That’s a good friend. Very nice work.

That is really cool.

Very cool. Must have been a nice surprise

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That's amazing!

Cool stuff there, congrats

Beautiful piece of craftsmanship, Brian. Nice equation = You provided the seed, your bud provided your harvest! Like that 'lil coaster too. Absolutely no hijack intent but, yesterday while fishing St. J's, I came across a similar yield from a friend to all of us...Mother Nature.Attachment 366731 and I wasn't even catfishing!:Rofl Unfortunately, she was a little late if this was her intended prey-rotfl Attachment 366732
Again, beautiful show piece!:cheers2

Doug

That is cool Bryan

Beautiful.

Thanks for all the compliments, I will be sure to pass them on to the craftsman.

He wants to try other fish so we'll see what he comes up with next.

Nice, me likey.

Beautiful!

That's awesome! Definitely worth the wait!!

He sent me a picture of the bluegill, not all wood - had to do some of the fins out of plastic.
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Super craftsmanship, Brian, does he do 100 percent of item?

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does he do 100 percent of item?

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Yes sir, he does all the work himself. Has a regular job & just does it in the side.
He always did some wood work but just started doing the fish