Can you tell who painted this?

[Fishwhittler]

This is a bait that was painted by a member of this forum, but I'm not telling you which one.  I took the pic of the bait, so the background is no clue to the painters identity.

So can you guess which custom painter painted this? 

 

[whittler]

Ben, what do I win if I get the answer?

[Fishwhittler]

Nothing, except bragging rights for guessing correctly. ;D

Seriously, I just wanted to see if people can identify a painter by his style. 

[Captain Obvious]

I'm voting pizz he had a bait that had that type of scale job.

[SkilletSizeBass.]

Thats a cool looking paint job...I'll say Stringjam 

[.dsaavedra.]

whoever it is they dip their clear coat....

[Steven Ladner]

I was thinking the Pizz. He does some outstanding scaling on a lot of his baits. Pizz doesn't dip his clear though...

[pizz]

it wasnt me...  :-? 

marc is right, i dont dip.

[Fishwhittler]

I painted it.

Maybe that wasn't quite fair on my part, but I wanted to see how well I could replicate another painters style (in this case Pizz).  Thanks for playing along!

The topcoat was brushed on, not dipped.  I used U-40 Permagloss, brushed it on, and let it hang.

Anyone else ever "forge" another painters work?  I've used other painters techniques lots of times, but on this bait I went a little further to make it look like Pizz's style.

[Captain Obvious]

No fair.

So I recognized Pizz's pattern just wasn't expecting a forge bait.

I call a rematch with a legal bait

[Vodkaman]

I was looking at your swimbait, but decided not to post in the end. I should have.

Dave

[Fishwhittler]

No fair.

So I recognized Pizz's pattern just wasn't expecting a forge bait.

I call a rematch with a legal bait

Okay, who made this?   It's from a couple years ago, but it should be fairly obvious.

[BIG M]

I know but I'm not going to tell

[Captain Obvious]

If the paint job didn't tip me off the body would.

The one and only big M

[.dsaavedra.]

i was actually going to guess you ben... i didn't recognize that as anybody's style. i've never even seen pizz on here.