Smallmouth Bass Art Fly boxes

[jbird]

Ive got a new fish graphic Ive engraved on a couple wood flyboxes. I'm really excited about these! The wood and the engraving are just beautiful!

All my art work is hand engraved with a wood burning tool. The fly boxes I have hand made from solid hardwoods
This box is 4x6" and made from very high grade Spalted Maple $90

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I always bookmatch end grains
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I got a very small quantity of some gorgeous south American Canary Wood. it has a wild golden glow with accents of pink and yellow in the grain. 4x6" box $90

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/JDS_0742_zps5b90cacc.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jbird35/media/JDS_0742_zps5b90cacc.jpg.html)
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Here is a smaller 3x5" Spalted Maple fly box with a Black Crappie engraving... $75

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/JDS_0736_zps6db754a1.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/jbird35/media/JDS_0736_zps6db754a1.jpg.html)
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If you are interested in purchasing one of these, please message me or you can email me at flygrain@gmail.com

Thanks for looking :) Make sure to see all my other products at www.flygrain.com

[DLJeff]

You're getting pretty darn good with that wood burning tool, Jay.

[jbird]

Thanks Doug :) It is an endless journey. With all the different woods I use, I am learning some wood grains are much more art friendly than others. I wont even offer engraving on oak any more. The grain has huge contrasts in hard and soft spots, which causes bad "hot spots" with the tool. The engraving is becoming one of my favorite parts of the process ;)

[Andy Guibord]

Nice. I like how, with one of the smallmouth, you incorporated the grain of the wood as the bottom contour.