All~
Lots of beautiful stuff (decoys gunning and fancy, painting, breakfast condiments....) already!
Here are 3 things either currently on the bench or which just came off today:
This is the Drake Mallard I carved for the Head and Body Tutorials. Thanks to help from Sean, Geoff and others on this site, I made progress with the oils. I am posting a couple more pics as a followup to the tutorials.
This Brant is a black cork gunner. It has a white pine head, cypress bottom board, masonite tail insert, and a white pine keel with poured lead ballast. It was sealed with 2 coats of varnish and finished with latex. (And, I've learned not to trust gesso - white or black - as a topcoat.)
This is one of the other projects occupying my bench of late. I have revised my instructions (last published 1990 I think) for building this Gunning Box and am photodocumenting each step of thie process. Here I have just fit the stern transom (like Garveys, my gunning boxes have both a rear and a front transom).
Here I have temporarily attached the Headrest to check the angle. I like to look right at my toes - and thus be able to see the rig as well as the sky - when I am "at rest" in my "coffin".
I moved the box outside so I could use Bondo to fill screwholes and other "cavities" prior to 'glassing. I'll be 'glassing the entire outside of the box after lunch with 6 oz cloth and marine epoxy resin (my first from U. S. Composites). I'll move it back in the shop - out of the sun - for the actual 'glassing - I just don't want the smell of Bondo lingering in my shop.
Back to the bench,
SJS
