January "What's on your Workbench?"

[Hank Yorke]

I just wrapped this one up... tack eyes, cedar head, frond body acrylic paint

 

[Rutgers]

Nice job Hank. Paint has that Old Saybrook look.

 

[Ron Smith]

Rinky dink ringneck decoys to use up some cork scraps and working on some flying wall hanging teal and ringnecks.

 

[Chris Finch]

i finnaly get to post to one of these treads.

pete revicki has been teaching me and my girlfriend how to make decoys, we started on the heads and just started the bodies. they are going to be black ducks hopefully

this is the work bench that i made for my room last year, the "i got a woody" was from my old jeep wagoneer, my first car

 

[Bob B]

Chris the first black duck that lands in those is really going to give you a woody.

Pete is a great resource and if you get the chance meet up with Rich S and Jeff F as well. You are in a decoy carver rich area for sure.

Bob

 

[Chris Finch]

i can't wait to see what they turn into, it definity will be cool to hunt over my own dekes.

 

[ed gagne]

i started at the bottom of that page and was thinkin those blocks you have there chris look an awful lot like a revicki decoy, makes sense. looking good man.

eddie

 

[D. Moreau]

Lookin good chris

 

[jode hillman]

Not quite what I planned to have on my bench, an almost grown Juvenille Sharp Shinned hawk.

Found it today while going for a walk. I thought it was on a kill at first, then I realized it was injured. It's left side wing was totally sheared of at the shoulder. Not sure how it happened except perhaps a high speed impact with the wire fence I foud it near.

Injury is slightly scabbed over so must be a few days old.

Bird had alot of vigor and tried it's best to take it's angst out on me! I caught it in my Jacket and have it under cover in the barn in a tote.

Taking it to the Raptor center Tommorow to see if they want it.

 

[Derek and Xena]

Doug,

those birds are incredible!

 

[D. Moreau]

sweet lookin decoys sean

 

[Charlie D]

I sense a hawk carving in your future Jode, will it be your first one??

 

[Bill Embacher]

A burnt black duck ready for the head to be scratch painted

My best attempt at a "CT style" eider

and putting the finishing touches on a masked duck, chris look close at those heads....look familiar?

and just finished up this teal

 

[jode hillman]

Maybe, I've done an Osprey before but never a hawk...........does it have to be one-winged?

 

[Brandon Yuchasz]

Jode,
unless you want us to start calling you an ArTeast then yes it will have to be one winged an exact copy of the original.

I am getting back into the swing of things lately and started painting again. Lots of unfinished decoys that I am making myself finish before I move on to new projects.

I just snapped a picture of my bench while I was working. nothing is done yet though. There are lots more base coated I have to finish as well. January should have lots of finished decoys for me to show off and I hope it has lots of new ones started. lots of idea's in my head I want to try out.

 

[Chris Finch]

Bill the heads do look oddly familiar. the burn painting looks really cool post up some pics when its done

 

[Tom Newell]

Doug, the decoys look great. Really nice Teal. Sean I love your Hen Oldsquaw.

 

[Dave Church]

Wrapping up a Redhead drake that I had promised my mom for my Dad's birthday coming up.

dc
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[Roy Weatherby]

Mallard I finished up.Hollow cedar,acrylics,pad weight,leather tie.

 

[Dave Church]

Nice body style.

dc