Black duck gunner

excellent work. I used to carve a lot of tupelo, but it was long before I made a decoy. I always figured after I started making decoys it would be ideal for a duck decoy.
 
I bought a piece of tupelo at our local woodcraft store a couple of years ago to carve some quail out of and it about ruined me, it was as hard as a rock. I went back to basswood after that. I taught a class at a local wood carving shop a few times about 30 years ago and always took payment from the shop owner with tupelo. I got a big block of tupelo from her once, probably somewhere around 9 inches square and 3 feet long, it was super nice and I carved a lot of things with it. I won't buy wood online, you just can't predict what it will be like. Woodcraft is a 50 mile drive just to find out they don't have anything suitable and the prices are high. I've always had a suspicion that the employees get the good stuff before walk in customers have a chance at it, I'd do the same if I was working there. My last few trips to town left me wanting, not even good basswood to be had.

I've carved on a wide range of wood species, pine, basswood, tupelo, jelutong, cherry, black walnut, and catalpa. I do a wide range of carving types and styles in wood such as fish, animals, birds, human figures, but rarely carve duck decoys out of wood unless they are urns. Even the design work I did for Tanglefree and Final Approach was not very often carved from wood. I have never carved white cedar.
 
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