Carving bench / workshop tools

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JLS

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Aspiring carver here with a question I'm sure will be as diverse as the group;

What tools are in on or around your workbench that you use for carving decoys?

Anything from powered units and bits to knives, sookeshaves, sanding, burning, painting equipment, carving benches, dust collection.

What did you get that you don't use and feel was unnecessary and what had you wished you'd done or gotten sooner?

Trying to get a handle on affordable essentials.

Thanks everyone.
 
do you have any idea what you are interested in making. I'm guessing decoys, but that wasn't the case in my career. I started carving for a living in 1981, quite a bit of it was waterfowl themed, but very rarely a decoy of any kind, never a working decoy until 22 years ago. I went to a few shows many decades ago and was asked several times if I used a Foredom, I had no idea what that was. We lived on a farm back in those days, no real options to find things like carving tools, I had no mentors and did a lot of my carving with a couple of chisels and some small carving knives. Essentials would probably start with a mentor, it's hard to say since we don't know your name or location.

These days with the internet tools are pretty easy to find, lots of youtube videos. Deciding on traditional decoy making or more outside the box. Decorative or functional, or both. I guess what I'm saying is we need more information.
 
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