You know you have made the big time when

[Jim Sammons LJKF]

You know you have made the big time when you make it into Playboy magazine. :eek:
OK it is the back cover of Playboy in Venezuela but still pretty cool.
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/1452436_10151960342249019_605467779_n.jpg

I can't read Spanish so I guess I will just have to look at the pictures. :luxhello:

[makobob]

Congratulations, I guess that IS the big time!

[Dannowar]

Hahaha too cool man!!!!

[rhyak]

LMFAO... THATS FUNNY... :luxhello::luxhello::luxhello:

[Gigafish]

:notworthy: Cool as Ice.:sifone:

[kaya_one]

the true meaning...of fish porn.

[Jim Sammons LJKF]

the true meaning...of fish porn.

:notworthy::cheers1:

[Fiskadoro]

Congrats!!!

A few years back I got in German Playboy when a made some "props" out of steel for the German playmate of the year. Kind of a minimal "Joan of Ark "thing. It's kind of funny because it's cool but it's not something you can show everyone. I.E. I'd post some pics but probably get banned.

I'll say one thing for those people. There was a lot of "fitting" in my studio so I spent a lot of time with the girl and staff. Contrary to popular belief the girl was no bimbo, and everyone was very professional, and in the end when it came to payment they were actually generous and gave me a bonus. Top notch organization and I'd work with them again.

Congrats again Jim. I always love seeing you do well because it's obvious your such a great guy :cheers1:

[StinkyMatt]

Jim D., please fix the typo in your story. You wrote "PlayBOY" when it should have been "PlayBOYtoy".


Such a minor mistake..........those new keyboards.....;)

[Fiskadoro]

J... it should have been "PlayBOYtoy"

Get you mind out of the Sewer. :cheers1:

[ful-rac]

Congrats!!!

A few years back I got in German Playboy when a made some "props" out of steel for the German playmate of the year. Kind of a minimal "Joan of Ark "thing. It's kind of funny because it's cool but it's not something you can show everyone. I.E. I'd post some pics but probably get banned.

I'll say one thing for those people. There was a lot of "fitting" in my studio so I spent a lot of time with the girl and staff. Contrary to popular belief the girl was no bimbo, and everyone was very professional, and in the end when it came to payment they were actually generous and gave me a bonus. Top notch organization and I'd work with them again.

Congrats again Jim. I always love seeing you do well because it's obvious your such a great guy :cheers1:



Oh wow Jim you made a steel cock....and "fitted" it? Dim Jay is probably jealous!

[blitzburgh]

On the back of Playboy...
http://bangtees.com/image/cache/data/like_a_boss_500-500x500.png

[Fiskadoro]

Oh wow Jim you made a steel cock....and "fitted" it? Dim Jay is probably jealous!

Of coarse the guy behind "Dim Jay" is jealous isn't it obvious) that's why he hates my guts. ... Ha Ha Ha

As to the job it was more like fancy pasties and a steel G string.

It was actually pretty comical. The whole thing had no attachment points or straps on the front so there was this flat part kind of a flor de lis shape that fitted into the small of her back tight to hold the whole thing in place. In order to work though it had to be two piece with a push together sleeve based locking mechanism under her crotch.

Imagine a two part rigid locking steel thong.

It was really pretty simple. You'd slide the back section into the front with it rotated slightly at an angle, then twist it to the center maybe five degrees and it would lock in place, but none of the assistants could figure out how to do it. So they made me do it.

So I have to do it, and there I am under this girls ass, German playmate of the year, she's got nothing on except shes holding the front half in place and I'm sliding the back part into it's sleave and she looks down and smiles and in the German accent says: "Is it in yet"

I'm like "Oh you'll know when it's in because it'll click" totally deadpan like talking about a carburetor. She starts Giggling, and then everyone there burst out laughing.

I kid you not.... I've built some interesting things but that was a fun job :D

I suppose I could find this stuff online somewhere but I just pulled out the issue she sent me.

Her name appears to be Daniella Jambrek, she's German playmate of the year 1994. The photographer was Herb Ritts (that's why I got the job) and the photo is on page 25.

There's a not in it but I can't read it as it's in German.

Actually the photo they used could be posted here as it covers up all the good parts. Looking it over she was a lot cuter in person then in the pics they used.

[Fiskadoro]

Holy crap!!! It's online. I had no idea!!!

So this is the issue:

http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/u/w/uwogf2pjjtxvjjxf.jpg?djet1p5k

...and here's the piece I made that's in it.

http://www.iphotoscrap.com/Image/626/1224221994-m.jpg

OK so now I have a small disclaimer. I originally designed and made that piece for Helana Christianson a fashion model for shoot she was doing with Herb Ritz. It also had a set of matching steel highheels I designed as well. Unfortunately though the heels looked great on her the pics with the bodice didn't come out well so Herb commissioned me to remake the thing for the German girl.

Jim Thanks for this thread!!! I didn't men to thread jack but thanks to you I just found a whole series of photos of work I'd pretty much forgotten about online. :you_rock:

[alanw]

Nice fish report :D

[kobra]

Congratulations on making the bigs , you sexy thang!!! :cheers1:

[wiredantz]

Not only does he have a master in oceanography, Metal Works, and photoshoots. But he make custom pcs...that fit :D

[Aaron&Julie]

Congrats Jim on making another cover.

[maui jim]

Smells Fishy.....:cool:

[jorluivil]

Jim D, it would make it much easier for all of us if you just told what you HAVEN'T done.

[dmrides]

Congrats Jim! That is big time! Making the backside on that magazine is almost as nice as the backside on the front of that magazine.

[jorluivil]

I once got arrested for speeding and DUI but Jim Day.....................








http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ICjOhX1qGB8/TZVKIu2Uf-I/AAAAAAAAGzQ/3XEbb8XNwfs/s320/manarrestedforeverything.jpg

[Aaron&Julie]

Hmmm, obviously we're missing a whole lot on the Jim Day side thread...anyone care to send a PM to let us know what this is about?
We do know he's been a regular on the kayak fishing forums for various websites for the last decade or so...

[dorado50]

Jim D, it would make it much easier for all of us if you just told what you HAVEN'T done.

Like button......


can't figure out how the thread jack has anything to do with Jim S. thread????
anyway... maybe in the future that playboy cover girl may become a client;)

[ful-rac]

The fine art of the threadjack gotta love it

[Fiskadoro]

Jim D, it would make it much easier for all of us if you just told what you HAVEN'T done.

It's really pretty simple. It seems like I do a lot, but I only really do two things: fishing, and building things, or just making shit. I've been doing those same two things since I was like five years old and everything else is kind of a spin off of those two things.

I got into art because it was a way to make money building things, same with welding and custom fabrication. I like to cycle because I like building bikes, same with motorcycles, and they are both cheap ways to get to a fishing hole.

Never been to Europe or anywhere else out of the US except Mexico (for fishing), and I pretty much only travel for work or to go fishing. Been on TV a few times but it was work related once again building things.

Fishing and fishery issues got me interested in the environment, and science.
It also got me interested in boats. Building boats combined fishing and making things, same with Kayaks, so it was a natural for me. You may not have heard the story but I never kayaked before I built a kayak that I designed myself. My first trip I fished that kayak out of MDR and I caught a few halibut. I kid you not... when I sat down in it I'd never been in a yak before and almost fell over right then, gear and all, right at the dock.

I think I'm really lucky I found a way to make a living doing what I really love to do. My old man was the same way, in that he loved to build things but he worked the last half of his life at a desk job he hated. At least I have my shop and my tools and am doing what I love full time.

The biggest problem for me is I hate making the same thing twice, and I hate paperwork, so I have no patents, no set clientele and there's no set steady market for what I do. Trust me it's not all making steel underwear for fashion models either. Custom fabrication just means making shit for whoever comes through the door. Last week I built a bunch of steel painting racks for a woman in Topanga , next week I'm building a steel and plastic greenhouse porch for a Swiss guy. I'm helping a girl build her first bike frame next weekend, and after that I'll probably be welding on another a 21 ft Bayrunner. Last month I didn't work at all because I got hit by a car riding my bike and almost got my neck broke. So I just live by my wits day to day.

I don't really have to B.S. about the things I know and do. I either know something or don't, or have done something or I haven't, no point in pretending otherwise. Usually when I think or believe something I have good reason for it. I know it looks like I talk a lot of shit but the truth is you only get the tip of the iceberg, and most of the shit I play with I never put online.

For instance I saw your Harley in your garage photo the other day, so I gather you know something about bikes.

We should ride together. I ride some with the VVMC guys, as well as the Cretins, and also the Deus Ex Machina crowd. You should come up and ride with us the next ride. Good group of guys and the rides are a blast. I just missed Hanson Dam and the Hell on wheels event but I try to make the things I can, and hit most of the Deus events.

Here's a link to the last one:

https://www.facebook.com/events/405327732913170/

Pics for that event: Deus 2013 Bike build off.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.553249648089953.1073741866.121842861230636&type=3

My bike (one of less then forty) in that show.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=553252021423049&set=a.553249648089953.1073741866.121842861230636&type=3&theater

Here's a pic for those who don't do Facebook:

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6285/jpe9.jpg

What's cool about that bike other then it's unique (completely my design) is that that silver stainless piece behind the shock pulls out and the bike drops down into a more chopper geometry.

In that pic it's up in desert riding mode but when I pull the spacer it looks like this:
http://imageshack.us/a/img10/6646/10qw.jpg
The suspension is full on offroad capable (DRZ400 forks R1200GS rear) so I can ride it out to the desert as a chopper, throw it on the center stand then raise it with the spacer and ride on rougher terrain. End of the day I drop it back into a chopper for the ride home. One fun bike.

I'm not saying it won anything in the contest, or that it's incredibly bad ass, but it got a lot of attention, and that's just a daily rider I threw together with almost no money from my old wrecked R65, and straight up I'm proud as hell that they even asked me to participate at all since I missed the registration date.

Bottom line if I say I built something or fished somewhere I probably did. If I start trying to pretend I'm some kind of world traveler or a rich guy with a Ferrari you have my permission to give me a good kick in the ass :D

[jorluivil]

Why did I ask:(

[wiredantz]

Wow Jim Day, that some fine looking metal.


LOL... not even Jim Sammon can stop you now.

Jorge is really jealous of especially the bike and the ladies. Tony, just likes the females model.



btw.... You are now known as the Kayak Ninja Thread Jacker

[Fiskadoro]

Like button.....anyway... maybe in the future that playboy cover girl may become a client;)

I hear you. I think she was only 18 when that photo was taken and at the time I thought she was way to young, but that hey that was in 1995.

I got a feeling she's still hot, and now I wouldn't seem so much like a dirty old man. :D

[Fiskadoro]

Wow Jim Day, that some fine looking metal.

Thanks Man :cheers1:

I try to keep the motorcycle and cycling stuff separate but I really am pretty happy with that bike.

I love Team Sewer. I may give you a hard time, but you guys crack me up. One of these day I might even have to come to one of your events*




*Disclaimer: this is neither a promise or a threat.

[jorluivil]

Thanks Man :cheers1:

I try to keep the motorcycle and cycling stuff separate but I really am pretty happy with that bike.

I love Team Sewer. I may give you a hard time, but you guys crack me up. One of these day I might even have to come to one of your events*




*Disclaimer: this is neither a promise or a threat.


We'd love to have you fish with us.

[Deamon]

To both Jims...:cheers1:


For instance I saw your Harley in your garage photo the other day, so I gather you know something about bikes. We should ride together. I ride some with the VVMC guys, as well as the Cretins, and also the Deus Ex Machina crowd. You should come up and ride with us the next ride.:D

Jorge accepts Jim Day's offer, goes riding with the "Cretins" and is never seen again. Six months later, Jim Day's posting up photos of this bad arse new old bike he's been tinkering with in his shop. 12 months after that, photos of Jorge wearing that playboy girls tubular outfit are posted anonymously on BWE...then viral on the internet. Candy and the kids can't go outside anymore and are forced to move out of the neighborhood. Not a big move because all of the kayak and fishing gear was sold just after Jorge was declared missing...I'm just saying. Be careful, be very careful. Jim

[Jimmyz123]

You know you have made the big time when you make it into Playboy magazine. :eek:
OK it is the back cover of Playboy in Venezuela but still pretty cool.
https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/1452436_10151960342249019_605467779_n.jpg

I can't read Spanish so I guess I will just have to look at the pictures. :luxhello:

Great work Jim.

[gabe]

Jim, may I have an autographed copy? I do read Spanish so this may be an interesting read

Gabe

[StinkyMatt]

Congrats on the magazine Jim.


Too bad most guys will never get to the last page.....;)

[Old Man in the Sea]

I heard Jorge has already contacted Mr Day and has been outfitted with a new metal prototype suit for the Irvine trout fishing tournament...Wow...that was quick work... and congrats Mr Sammons on making the back cover...BTW I have a feeling Jorge will be joining your fame soon after the Irvine trip...:biggrinjester:

[lamb]

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