My new favorite decoy....

[Kevin Layne]

I love my new decoy but the picture doesn't do it justice. Earlier this spring I cut a box of palm fronds and sent them all to a fellow Duckboater gentleman in Maryland. In return he made this decoy for me and I got it yesterday. I think it's beautiful and made him a promise that I'd gun over it this fall then send him pictures of my success. I can't wait. Thank you Mr. Perry!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Your decoy has splendid lines and incredible grace. I can see why you think it is beautiful. It is.

 

[Kevin Layne]

I also sent a box of fronds to another duckboater who is making a pair of sleeping pintails for me. Can't wait to gun over the trio!

 

[Huntindave McCann]

I sure wish I had some raw palm fronds to box up. Paint me green with envy.

 

[perry]

Kevin thanks for showing my decoy on the site.

 

[perry]

I also sent a box of fronds to another duckboater who is making a pair of sleeping pintails for me. Can't wait to gun over the trio!

Kevin thanks for showing my decoy on the site.

Kevin thanks for showing my decoy on the site.

 

[HenryHawthorne]

Kevin thanks for showing my decoy on the site.

Its a great looking decoy, well done!

 

[perry]

being a well known member on the site not to meny member are familiar with my work. I have been in wildfowl mag. shooting sportsman pbs,
NEA three times for the word foundation I live in kennebunk, maine but not a well known carver. I did not have many. references for the
pintail showed here this will give carvers some good reference there is a lot of up and downs carving soft palm fronds.I has been in two
wildfowl cat. wing stand worth mathusons cat. I am working on a old squaw drake.

peace, bill Perry

 

[Linhardt]

I am working on a old squaw drake.

Feel free to post any other carvings you have done or working on. You do very good work and is nice to see members displaying there finished work or works in progress.

 

[Kevin Layne]

I've seen picture of the start of the squaw and it is just as amazing!

 

[MLBob Furia]

Hey Bill,
Last remember seeing you in Easton way back in 2014 when we had NEA / Ward Foundation grants as regional instructors for the carvers' seminars they used to sponsor. Jode Hillman was with us, along with Heck Rice, Del Herbert, Patrick Eubanks, Vic Kirkman, and others who don't come to mind right now. Here's a picture of the group panel with the instructors held during part of the weekend. We all looked (and felt) a bit younger back then!




I had the students in my Ohio workshop do frond blackducks and we all transported them with us to be entered into the "Chesapeake Challenge" Show that ran in conjunction with the seminar weekend. Here's a picture of one of my student's birds that did well. Her name was Patricia Otto and she's still doing some carving along with some others who did the classes here in Ohio.