Something Special #2

[Sea Draggin]

I wasn't exactly happy with my first try. I felt like it was a 7 on a 1-10. I feel like I"m up to an 8 with this one. Nice glow belly and it only took my about 1/3 of time the first one did. 300g WLB. I have some 400g ones that I might try next.

The flash brought out the greens in the ab, but its much bluer.

[Jesse Lockowitz]

very cool jim.




Jesse

[dunn6253]

Looking good. Are these one off's, or are you going to be making them and selling them?

[Sea Draggin]

Not for sale, unless I can get an 11 on a 1-10 scale.

To be honest, the orient does such a good job, I could never match what they are doing. That being said, importing real abalone is difficult/impossible to say the least.

So, just for fun mainly and special gifts.

[John from Madison CT]

I bet the fish would be happy with a 7 out of 10. I'd sure like to buy some. They look great.

[clt_capt]

Jim,
What kind of paint are you using? You may want to try a powder paint - you can heat it well enough with an alcohol burner.

Fred

[Sea Draggin]

Thats what I used, but don't care for it on big projects like this. I'm going to go look at air brushes tomorrow. I can airbrush the stuff, then aftcoat and it will be as good as powder paint. Because of the abalone, it has to be coated anyway.

[cravertosu]

That jig looks awesome! I pretty much want to eat it.
I would certainly buy those if you were to make them. I'd much rather buy from a local guy!

What exactly is abalone and what makes it so hard to get?

Tim

[Ponce]

Jim another really nice jig, that thing is sweet.

I used to hang around with a taxidermist and would help him out some. When it come to airbrushes, the cheap simple ones seemed to work just as well as the expensive ones.

[J Latham]

What exactly is abalone and what makes it so hard to get?

Tim[/QUOTE]

It's a shell fish found in the Pacific waters. In the late 80's I was working in Nor. Cal. and would free dive for them, awesome table fare. They used to farm raise them somewhere around Santa Cruz, I don't know why they are so hard to get.