For someone's trophy room

Ontario Hunter

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Just finished this. Our bishop is asking us to donate stuff for a silent auction at synod dinner in two weeks. $17 for junker rod & reel at 2nd hand store, twenty bucks for donor lamp on sale at Walmart, $11 for the pull chain fob fishing lure, $14 for Walmart lamp shade; $15 for "hunter green" spray paint. All tax deductible of course. :D
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Originally I tried a green donor spinning rod but it was larger with longer handle. Made the lamp too tall. I didn't want a spinning reel because they stick out too far. Casting rods typically have bent handles and don't work but casting reels are tighter to the rod. So I used a kid's straight handle spinning rod missing half its guides and an old seized up Johnson closed face reel. This should make a nice addition to someone's fishing cottage.
 
Cool idea and well executed.
 
Green base might have worked with green rod but not when I switched to brown rod. So I painted the base brown. All wired up and ready to auction.
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The lure on the pull chain kicks it off nicely.
 
I love it! great job!
 
@Ontario Hunter, that is some fine man-cave, trophy room decor. Beautiful!
 

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We have a few cancelation dates open for June and July if anyone is interested in a short notice hunt, we can add in a few hunting days for free to sweeten the deal!

17-25 June
possibly 18-25 July
28 July -Aug 2nd
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shoot me a message ASAP,
EPIC HUNTING SAFARI wrote on Michal Polhunter's profile.
Good day sir, how many days are you interested in? I would love to do you a personalised quotation!
 
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