From Karelia with love!

[KarelianWood]

Hi! Im living in Republic of Karelia, Russia. Im making fishing poppers from wood and catching pike and trout. Also few weeks ago Im start to stabilize wood in vacuum. I get few pieces of rare karelian birch wood and want to create something from it.

 

[Tony]

Welcome from way South of you in Texas! I'd love to see some pictures of your work! Tony

 

[KarelianWood]

 

[Tony]

Very nice! Beautiful pieces that you've dyed and stabilized. Tony

 

[KarelianWood]

Welcome from way South of you in Texas! I'd love to see some pictures of your work! Tony

Here is few unfinished poppers. all ready to fish already in boat or presented to frends for testing^). also few stabilized Karelian birch blocks. not sure for all of them to fully stabilized, cause wery different density blocks have. some cant have 150 gramms and take 40-70 gramms of stabilizator, some can have 100 gramms and take 110 gramms of stabilizator....

 

[KarelianWood]

i have small stabilization container, but dreaming to create big size container to stabilize up to 60 santimetres pieces like this

 

[ripjack13]

Howdy Vital, welcome to the club! I think you're the first Russian member we have! (I could be wrong.)

 

[Spinartist]

From south Florida!! WOW!! That gun stock is AWESOME!!!!!!

 

[gman2431]

Welcome! I also make fishing tackle and your stuff is very cool!

What kind of trout do you catch and do you use those poppers for them?

 

[David Van Asperen]

Welcome to Wood Barter.
Awesome projects
Dave

 

[KarelianWood]

Welcome! I also make fishing tackle and your stuff is very cool!

What kind of trout do you catch and do you use those poppers for them?

Thanks! Trout i catch, i thing it called 'brown trout' in english.. Small poppers (3-6 sm) work goot at warm summer days, then trout jumping then hunting.
Poppers not best and effective tackle, but fishing w them if funny and adrenaline. Usially i use small jerks or mepps rounding lures..
also sometimes im tying flies like on photo^)

 

[CWS]

Awesome work Vital

 

[Foot Patrol]

Welcome to the site from Houston Texas.

@KarelianWood I am really impressed with the grass hopper fly. Well done!

 

[Lou Currier]

Nice looking trout...I don't think I have ever seen one with red spots. from central Florida where the weather is hot and right now the brush fires are burning.

 

[woodtickgreg]

WELCOME! From Michigan. Awesome looking gun stock, great flies too!

 

[gman2431]

Very cool! Same as our brown trout here that originally originated from over there!

 

[barry richardson]

Welcome Vital, glad to have you!

 

[Nature Man]

Welcome from California, USA! Lots of folks interested in fishing on this site, so you'll fit right in! What are the local wood species that you use? Chuck

 

[C.L. Boyett]

Hi! Im living in Republic of Karelia, Russia. Im making fishing poppers from wood and catching pike and trout. Also few weeks ago Im start to stabilize wood in vacuum. I get few pieces of rare karelian birch wood and want to create something from it.

Welcome from central U.S.

 

[KarelianWood]

Welcome from California, USA! Lots of folks interested in fishing on this site, so you'll fit right in! What are the local wood species that you use? Chuck

• California dreaming^)..... Most popular species here is pine, spruce (fir) and birch. So they usially uses for building and woodworking. Sauna walls and bench often from aspen, cause it is long life with water contact and dont gives tar, like pine. Poppers and jerks can be maked from alder, cause i have low density and easy to work. Most exotic, precious and most popular for costly works is karelian(masur) curly birch. It is north "mutation" of simple curly birch but very rare and heavy to find. Looks like common birch, but more ugly...