APRIL What's on Your Workbench

God had to make something for Bald Eagles to catch........while the Golden Eagles laugh at em.


HAHAHA A few years ago the local paper had a photo of an Bald Eagle with a caption something like "Finishing up the meal of duck it had just captured". It was a big old green coot foot hanging out of it's mouth.
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first of this bird for me. not overly pleased but hey it is a gunning bird for the rig.

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Tom~

I think your Hen Broadie-beak is gorgeous! Nice round head with a nice broad bill....

I guess you have her pointed downward because she's a diving duck????

All the best,

SJS
 
Thanks Bob. Left to right, Dowitcher, (back) Greater Yellowlegs. Piping Plover, Summer sanderling. and a Golden Plover.
 
Well so much for my first shorebird.....what a guy to follow! Great work this month everyone.

Here's an American Oystercatcher I did for a Coastal Conservations Association ( CCA MD) event tonight. It's hollow with an oyster shell rolling around in there. Last time I shook it it either got stuck in the neck, or maybe the gorilla glue holding the legs in grabbed hold???

It's white pine with a mahogany bill.

-D

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Looks good Dave! You should be proud of that. Plus its for a worthy cause. I say just have fun with it. That's the most important thing.
 
Thanks Sean.

The Oystercatcher was carved from a white pine tree that by dad planted in about 1962. It fell in '06 and I've been chipping away at my stock of it ever since. I gave a little explanation speech about what carving means to me and where my passion for it came from at our banquet last night and the bidding went a little nuts. Two gentlemen that I have a great deal of respect for began going back and forth. When the dust cleared, $800 was given to CCA MD, and my first and only oystercatcher found itself a permanent home at the Boat Yard Bar and Grill in Eastport Annapolis.

I was speechless, and still have quite the smile on my face as I type this.

-D
 
Thanks Sean.

The Oystercatcher was carved from a white pine tree that by dad planted in about 1962. It fell in '06 and I've been chipping away at my stock of it ever since. I gave a little explanation speech about what carving means to me and where my passion for it came from at our banquet last night and the bidding went a little nuts. Two gentlemen that I have a great deal of respect for began going back and forth. When the dust cleared, $800 was given to CCA MD, and my first and only oystercatcher found itself a permanent home at the Boat Yard Bar and Grill in Eastport Annapolis.

I was speechless, and still have quite the smile on my face as I type this.

-D
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dam, that think must have consumed a chit load of $.25 oysters.
 
Nice weather yesterday (they were calling for rain all week punctuated with snow on Friday), decided to roll the bandsaw outside and cut out a couple of bodies:

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They say cork dulls blades...I'd argue it isn't the cork that dulls the blades, it's the gravel!

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Okay, I'll admit, I cut out more than a "couple":

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You know you cut out a few when you need to roll them back inside with a dolly:

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