April workbench

Ronald Bock said:
We started this month off by finishing some birds. My daughter finished painting this drake spoonie and I finished his mate.
My daughter is trying her hand at minis. She just did an old squaw, a pintail, and is painting a Buffy drake today.
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Daughter finished painting this cute little buffy this afternoon. Different than anything I've ever done. She has found her carving niche.20250406_151035.jpg
 
Don Mintz said:
she does a great job. You need to get her to paint some hens. Hen bufflehead decoys are magic.
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Good luck. She does not like doing hens. I do all the hens since I prefer them. It's a pretty good partnership. I'll see if I can get her to carve a mini and I can paint her as a hen. She did this little guy as a harlequin last evening. Seems to be getting better each time. 20250406_202908.jpg
 
I haven't done much hand painting for quite a while. A few decoratives here and there. I've got a decent little video on my facebook page laying out feathers by hand on a pintail hen.
 
It's been a busy end of March and beginning of April,

Started off with this outdoor chair build, It's been updated since this photo with cup holders. This is an improvement on a chair I built for my deck two years ago. Higher back, raised the arm rests. I used some leftover hardware from building my deck last summer so it is built like a tank. Shadow Approves of the design changes!
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Followed up with a table that holds my small lodge cast iron charcoal grill. I put some thin patio pavers on it so It doesn't have hot cast iron to wood contact. The deck I built last summer, still pretty proud of how it came out!
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I've knocked out a couple cutting boards and serving boards. This one I kept for myself. I'm going to make one for each of my small group of friends and gift them when we have our annual steak dinner at the end of the school year. Made from Black Walnut. This was my first attempt at a Juice Groove. I sanded this in increments up to 1200 grit and dang is it smooth to the touch.

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Finally I've started on some ducks(its been 4 years). First I took some old paper patterns and made them more sturdy with some 1/4" plywood. My Goal is a new Blackduck spread for the NJ mashes next fall. 7-9 black ducks followed by some pairs of assorted mash ducks TBD. Black cork, Pine Tail and bottom boards, basswood heads. Going to have a combo of standard heads, low heads, sleepers and feeder/skimmers
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