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by Rellik-doc-rob » Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:50 pm
G'day Albert , I try to answer your questions in order , and will double check with my dairies on dates tonight , if I am wrong here.
Little Poltergeist's.... The Gold-coloured one is a "Proto-type"... Plastic , but you will notice a hand made bib.... NO support bubble on the underside to reinforce the area that the top-head or Omega connector link would have most of its pressure. That would be the one that I made for Halco to get ABS injection molds made from. The other Polty is a totally halco made lure.
Scorpions... Both urathane molded , the smaller 68mm model with pointy bib , around 200 made but were very un-stable and the 1mm aluminium bent very easily. It was quickly converted to a Oval-shaped 1.5mm polycarb bib.... and remolded. The 100mm model also followed with an Oval-shaped bib , and remolded , but did at least 500 with that bib before the change to polycarb.
Writing on the tail of the lures....... that was probably done in 99% of the case , and the model name written on the belly area , mostly because there was not enough room to write both on the tail. Although there were plenty with ...RMG lures on say the top-side of the tail , then the model name written directly below that. A bit confusing... but plenty of examples out there of both versions.
Death-adder with dolls-eyes.... not alot of them done. Rupe has 2 I think , and 1 is still in its original pack. Sent to him by an old lady who's husband had died , and she found the letter that they got when they originally bought them from me. She gave them back to Rupe for the $8 each that her husband had paid back in the 80"s. Rupe of course set her the money and a bunch of flowers and 4 KG of king-prawns , knowing that she had a weak spot for prawns. If you have a copy of the Lures-in-depth book , you will see a death-adder identical to your. I seem to think in around lure No: 230 - 240. It was one of mine that they tested.
It is a guppy.... was also called a "Ridge-back" for a while , until harro told me of another lure-maker that was also using the name "Ridge-back". I first did that shape in around 1986 and made it for a few year , yours would be a reasonably early one with that "Dipped-head " paint job, and Marroon/red body colour. Most would have been in yellow/mustard & black colours , made for a particular shop in Inverell.... It was called " Hong-huens"... sorry if the spelling is wrong.
When that lure came up on Ebay , I wrote to the selling and told him what it was called , thinking a good description would be a help to him. He wrote back more or less telling me he didn't care and was not going to change his listing. We did still bid on it , but not enough , and Rupe already has 3 or 4 of them anyway.
There is a similar lure called a Snyper.... but it was made much later , probably 4-5 years later. I showed the bloke how to make them and was happy to see him continue making them as he was just starting out.
I will check tonight with the quantities of the "Pointy bib urathane scorpions"... if I am wrong about the numbers produced , I will correct it tomorrow.
Hope I haven't missed any of your question Doc..... RDR
Rellik-Doc-Rob...
The Harder I work, the luckier I get...
Then there are these 4 lures . They all have RMG lures at their tails. Are this placement at the tails found in the early lures usually???
The Battle-axe and Rellik-doc are easy but the top and the bottom lures has no names on them at all.
