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.