Custom
Painted
Lures
This
dream of mine materialized after I met Darcey Menchin on the Australian
fishing lure forum
LureLovers.com
Darcy was
producing some very innovative lures of his own designs in terms of
both the wooden materials used as well as finishing approaches employed by
him to have his lures stand out from what is commercially available.
Produced in strictly
limited quantities, one feels fortunate to have acquired some to both fish
and collect.
I asked Darcy if
he would be prepared to specially paint otherwise perfect old vintage
ABU Plug lures for me.
His first reaction
was why would he risk changing perfectly good ABU lures to something other
than standard colours.
My answer was,
"After a collector has all the plug types , sizes and colours and has doubles to
spare, why not?"
So I have now a
unique set of wonderfully creatively painted ABU lures, which you can see
below.
Modifying or
Customizing is a great interest to many ABU collectors, be they ABU rods,
reels or lures.
Are these not the wildest looking ABU lures?
Missing is the Rakan Shrimp, please advise if you have a spare to sell
Kynoch
Killer 1st edition Killer 2nd Edition
Snoky small sinking Snoky large floating
Cello
Cello Dipp
Hilo 12g
Hilo 18g
Hilo 20g (ledad)
Hilo 26g
Darcy's
dedicated lure page
showing more of his wonderful ability is here.