you've been busy. I think about you and the cold, hopefully your shop is warmer than mine the last few days. Windy and 11 degrees here which meant the temp in the shop was only 54 yesterday. But then I remember winter in Fairbanks and 40 below for weeks and it doesn't seem so bad and I just add another layer. two days ago the furnace went on the blink again and the house was only 60 for a couple of days, wife not happy. We just had it "repaired" three weeks ago. It wasn't even warm enough in the craft room to paint without a coat.
Sleepers are about the most difficult thing for me to carve, just something about figuring out where all the neck curves are supposed to go and how to deal with the bill. I love wigeons, I probably make as many of them as mallards. I shot my first wigeon in 1981 in the area of the fish and game cabin on minto flats, of course it was pretty brown.
I like seeing that respirator on your bench, most people rely on a simple dust mask which really doesn't do much. I have two respirators that I rotate every few days. I pull the filters off and then wash the rest of the mask in hot soapy water and hang them over a heater vent in the house, then change out the dust filters. I've learned this year that black mold was forming in my mask, so I took measures to stop it. I can tell when the carbon part of the filter is done when I start smelling stuff like airbrush paint and spray finishes.
sanded and sealed this pair of spoonies. I'll get a couple more coats of sealer and then some gesso. This is a simple pair of gunners to add to my spread for next season.
