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Help with Northern blank?

Discussion in 'Fish Taxidermy' started by TomL, Sep 17, 2009.

  1. Sep 17, 2009 #1
    TomL

    TomL New Member

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    I have a customer who wants me to do a replica of a 32'', approx 10lb Northern pike his son caught. I could ony find 2 that size, archie phillips and WASCO proline. I ordered the archie phillips and got it today, but not impressed with it. Anyone have experience with the WASCO ones? If theyre alot better, I'd order one of them. I was hoping for something from a better company, but non had that side. Thanks for any help.
     
  3. Sep 17, 2009 #2
    Sarge

    Sarge A little too much Lord *hic*

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    Lake Country Replicas has one that is a 32 inch Girth 13 1/4 approx 7.75 lbs Northern Pike S-Curve LT

    I like there replicas, I am no fish expert but they sure look real enough to me teeth gills got a walleye for my son and I to work on he caught a decent Saugeye this spring and we are gonna assemble and paint it together so he can learn how to paint as well.

    Hope this helps

    Jeff
     

  5. Sep 18, 2009 #3
    randy budzynski

    randy budzynski Active Member

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    After using all the nice blanks on the market now from LCR, Arp etc. I will find it very hard if I ever have to do another Archie blank. You can prep and paint a LCR blank in the time it takes you to prep one of archies. Plus you won't have 8 lbs. of fiberglass and bondo dust laying around. I don't mean to bash Archie and Bubbas work because it was state of the art at the time but that was 20 years ago.
     
  6. Sep 18, 2009 #4
    TomL

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    Thanks for the replies guys. I agree with you Randy, I'd much rather use the better ones, just had a hard time finding the size. Looking at the one I got Im dreading all that dust too. Thanks for the info on Lake Country Sarge, I must've overlooked that one, I thought I checked them, I'll have to look again, I think I'll be ordering that one and keeping the one I got to mess around with.