Started looking in a folder with old patterns, and came across this picture that I had thrown in there a while back. Drew up the pattern, and it has now morphed into three new patterns that are all on the bench as the New Year starts:
Here is my recent project, a little more folk art like than I am used to but found a piece of drift word that spoke to me that it wanted to be a fish so I plan to make it that and wood burn a little detail to it and add fins is the next steps
With pretty much everything frozen, shop time is where it's at. Oysters are Something I love, but just tried my hand at carving. Every ''tis wood, including the knife and plate.
I've got a number of projects going - a batch of McCormicks and a batch of Beans puddlers - as well as the Scooter I am repairing.
Santa brought me this 1940s-50s Herter's Model Superior Bluebill - "Broadbill" to those of us from Great South Bay. My Dad had 7 like this - but have been converted to Whistlers a long time ago. I got it in original paint - but with lots of paint missing, especially on the balsa body. The original paint was sprayed on - nothing I felt compelled to preserve.
My goal was to "restore" this decoy so it looks like an "in-use re-paint" - with just enough subsequent wear.
Although the practice is now out of vogue among most collectors, I still like a bit of luster of my "antiques" - so it got 2 coats of Minwax paste wax.
Finally got around to painting this blackduck. It was the last bird I carved at my first shop. Still working on my new workshop before I start cranking out some other projects.