What's on your Work Bench ? DECEMBER 2018

Jon~


A pair of very stylish gents! The head on your "wrackline rescue" looks very familiar - but I cannot place the carver. I may need to "borrow" some of its lines for a pattern someday.


All the best,


SJS

 
[size 4]Keep fiddling with the deadmount. Got it to the point where everything is primed, & textured.

As I always caution folks, "Paint before you carve. " Hopefully, I thought through what would have to be painted prior to carving thoroughly enough.
As you can see, I did do some finish painting in areas that I felt would be too difficult to reach once he wings were complete.

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Meanwhile, we got missed by the big snow passing further South. Temps are pretty chilly, but hopefully the daytime highs are going to be enough to keep the sloughs open. Water levels have been high on the River for the past few weeks. Will be dropping fast in the week ahead, but sloughs should still be at good depths and stay huntable if we don't get hard freezes at night. Be safe out there!
 
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All~


A few decoys and duckboat pieces have passed over my bench this month - but priorities are priorities....


I made 2 of these "security gates" for my Grandson Jacob - visiting with his Mom (my daughter) and his Dad from Berlin until New Year's Eve.


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I've also spun more than a few yards of White Pine roping clipped from our trees.


All the best,


SJS

 
Good morning, Dave~


That is one fine rig! Be sure to get a photo or two when they are hard at work on some salt water.



SJS

 

Rick and Steve


Thank you.

There is a somewhat similar rough cut of that decoy waiting in my shop. Could be awhile before I can put it in the vice, and get to work with the draw knife.


Best regards

Vince
 
My December contribution. While searching for something in my shop, a recent while ago, I came across 2- 2' X 3' sheets of old school black cork. So, to keep with my "waste not, want not" mentality, I decided to carve up a few heads and cut out a few bodies, meant of course, to be hunted over. I LOVE cork. I think the weight to size ratio is perfect, so they ride the water nicely, and I like the old school romanticism of it. The only problem is, this cork is weak. I tend to "baby" these decoys.

As promised, here is my rendition of a pair of Ruddy Ducks. Just slightly over life sized, the black cork with basswood heads, and pine keels and tails. On the high tailed bird, the tail goes all the way thru the cork, (I just cut the decoy in 2, then removed a slice approximately the thickness of the pine tail. I then drilled a 1" hole into the cork, and inserted a 1" dowel with plenty if glue. Then I screwed the keel up into the dowel, and screwed the tail into both the dowel and the keel. After that, I reassembled the rest of the back end if the bird with plenty of glue for all of it.

2 coats of Spar Varnish, a good coat of tinted Kilz primer, and these toy ducks will be ready to paint.

Jon


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Very nice,
Love the high tail!
We don?t see many ruddies but I love them. They are real clowns when you get a whole flock feeding around the boat. I?ve shot a few that actually flew in vs swim they are tasty.
 
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