Rutgers
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I havent been able to sleep for the last few weeks. I'm leaving to go blast some crows in 2 hours, so I gave up trying to sleep and decided to post up some pictures I just got back.
Michele and I took a "vacation" in september so I could do a job for a friend in VA. We managed to sneak away for a couple days and hit the Tuckerton Decoy show. It was a great time. Got to meet some forum guys, along with some decoy legends, see a lot of nice decoys and boats, etc, etc.
Firs stop, and honestly, the highlight of the trip was to visit with Jim and Deb Schmeidlin. I know pretty much everyone here is familiar with Jim's work. Not only is he a hell of a carver, but him and Deb are great people. The pictures dont do any justice to the visit. If you ever get invited to the Schmeidlin casa, do youself a favor and make it a point to go! I never had a harder time leaving a place as I did Jim and Debs.
Jim with some of his work. was just the tip of the iceberg! More pics of Jim's stuff soon.
Nice Remarque on a canvasback.
Not only are the decoys AWESOME, but he hunts them all!
Our own Jode Hilman. I love his work. Classy and original. Jode is a hell of a nice guy too!
Out of my five favorite carvers, here are three of them. Left to right: JP Hand, George Strunk, and The one and only Bob White.
Guess who carved this mallard.
One from Bob White.
JP hand Wood ducks. Nice Clean Barnegat style. Jamie studied under Hurley Conklin and Harry Shourds. Wonder if the Kernel of corn in the he's bill would be considered baiting?
Me and Harry V. Shourds. I stopped by his table a few times during the day, and he wasn't threre. I didn't come this far not to meet him. Michele sat at his table waiting for him to come back while I did a little shopping. Next thing I know there is a comotion that some lady was sitting at his table, so she cam and got me and they took me to see Harry. He was in the middle of judging, and dropped what he was doing to talk to me for about 20 minutes. Everyone is just kind of standing around waiting on him, but really, what are they going to do fire him? I was honored to speak with him. I cant say I've met a lot of carvers I dont like, and from the brief ammount of time I had to speak with him, I left thinking what a nice man he is.
After a day of going hard and walking what seemed like a hunderd miles with a pregnant wife, it was time to eat. Doc reccomended we head down to Atlantic City and eat at the White House. Good call on his part. Good subs, and lots of character (s).
Of course, on our way back to VA we had to make one last little detour.
The library at the Havre de Grace Museum. I really need to get a card here!
Can't wait til next year, but first, Westlake is only a few short months away! Thanks for looking!
Paully
Michele and I took a "vacation" in september so I could do a job for a friend in VA. We managed to sneak away for a couple days and hit the Tuckerton Decoy show. It was a great time. Got to meet some forum guys, along with some decoy legends, see a lot of nice decoys and boats, etc, etc.
Firs stop, and honestly, the highlight of the trip was to visit with Jim and Deb Schmeidlin. I know pretty much everyone here is familiar with Jim's work. Not only is he a hell of a carver, but him and Deb are great people. The pictures dont do any justice to the visit. If you ever get invited to the Schmeidlin casa, do youself a favor and make it a point to go! I never had a harder time leaving a place as I did Jim and Debs.
Jim with some of his work. was just the tip of the iceberg! More pics of Jim's stuff soon.
Nice Remarque on a canvasback.
Not only are the decoys AWESOME, but he hunts them all!
Our own Jode Hilman. I love his work. Classy and original. Jode is a hell of a nice guy too!
Out of my five favorite carvers, here are three of them. Left to right: JP Hand, George Strunk, and The one and only Bob White.
Guess who carved this mallard.
One from Bob White.
JP hand Wood ducks. Nice Clean Barnegat style. Jamie studied under Hurley Conklin and Harry Shourds. Wonder if the Kernel of corn in the he's bill would be considered baiting?
Me and Harry V. Shourds. I stopped by his table a few times during the day, and he wasn't threre. I didn't come this far not to meet him. Michele sat at his table waiting for him to come back while I did a little shopping. Next thing I know there is a comotion that some lady was sitting at his table, so she cam and got me and they took me to see Harry. He was in the middle of judging, and dropped what he was doing to talk to me for about 20 minutes. Everyone is just kind of standing around waiting on him, but really, what are they going to do fire him? I was honored to speak with him. I cant say I've met a lot of carvers I dont like, and from the brief ammount of time I had to speak with him, I left thinking what a nice man he is.
After a day of going hard and walking what seemed like a hunderd miles with a pregnant wife, it was time to eat. Doc reccomended we head down to Atlantic City and eat at the White House. Good call on his part. Good subs, and lots of character (s).
Of course, on our way back to VA we had to make one last little detour.
The library at the Havre de Grace Museum. I really need to get a card here!
Can't wait til next year, but first, Westlake is only a few short months away! Thanks for looking!
Paully
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