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doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!! ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well. ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.
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Doug51 wrote:
doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!! ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well. ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.
Doug, at the time I was interested in neither fishing or whittling so I never did get one from him. The idea of a fish decoy sounds interesting. Would you make it out of bass wood or a heaver wood? ::shrug::
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doglegg wrote:
Doug51 wrote:
doglegg wrote:OC, typical of your very fine work. Always exceptional!!!! ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Doug, I had a friend in Ohio many years ago that whittled his lures and used them. Yours looks great and the paint job as well. ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
Thanks! Did you ever get a lure from him? My uncle is trying to talk me into carving a fish decoy for spearing.
Doug, at the time I was interested in neither fishing or whittling so I never did get one from him. The idea of a fish decoy sounds interesting. Would you make it out of bass wood or a heaver wood? ::shrug::
The fish decoy I've seen we're basswood and they used lead weights in them to keep them from floating. Spearing pike through the ice. I'm not much of a fisherman. I like to hunt my food!:-)
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Although I have not yet made one, I have this fish decoy pattern book done by Anthony Hillman in 1993. It has 17 patterns for carving fish decoys. For those of you who have not seen how fish decoys were used by the Native Americans, this drawing is from inside the pattern book.
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Cool book and drawing OC, made me cold seeing him lying on the ice fishing. Making a living has always been a little hard I guess. Thanks for the information and sharing. ::nod:: ::tu:: ::handshake::
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Nice book OC! I'll have to see if I can find a copy. You should carve out a couple. I seen a program last winter about a guy here in Michigan that made fish decoys. They get right into the movement of the decoy in the water. Way beyond anything I know.
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I finished up some more projects over the weekend that were in the works for a while.
Desk pens turned from some laminated gunstock scrap (with maple bands) that a friend gave me.
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Pens turned from ironwood (with maple bands), really hard stuff with some great looking grain and color.
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Wire and canvas bluebill (14 1/2" overall length). I tried something new by using a painted nail head for an eye on this one.
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OC, those ironwood pens look super. And great idea on the eye. I always enjoy looking at your stuff. Thanks. ::nod:: ::nod:: ::handshake::
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Beautiful work on the pens! ::tu:: OC
A couple things I have been working on
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Pumpkin is perfect project for the season. And the fish turned out good too! Thanks for sharing! ::nod:: ::tu::
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doglegg wrote:Pumpkin is perfect project for the season. And the fish turned out good too! Thanks for sharing! ::nod:: ::tu::
Thanks. There's something kind of satisfying about a simple quick carving.
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First time trying to get scale's on a fish.
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Doug, that is amazing. Those scales look proportioned and very detailed. Wow, that is good. Did you use your case whittler? ::nod:: ::nod:: ::handshake::
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doglegg wrote:Doug, that is amazing. Those scales look proportioned and very detailed. Wow, that is good. Did you use your case whittler? ::nod:: ::nod:: ::handshake::
Thanks! I used a Old Timer carving jack that had a little U shaped gouge to make the scales by just pressing it down hard to cut the scales in. And that little Bark River fixed blade to Rough it out and the Case Seahorse whittler to finish shaping everything.
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A good choice of tools. I have one of those Old Timers you are talking about. I don't find it as useful as I thought I would but it is handy for some things. Doug, I sure enjoy your sharing. ::handshake::
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I was disappointed with the Old Timer tool. Mine came with every tool dull. I still haven't gotten them totally sharp. I got the idea from a video that Mike Stinnet did on u-tube. He used a tool to put the scales on snakes that he carves on canes and walking sticks. I was going to try it with a blade but the u tool was so much faster and more consistent.
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I'm not sure which brand but they make a shaped fish scale wood burning tip in more than one size. If you look back at my mermaid I used a wood burner for her scales.
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Mr Watch thanks for sharing. I'm thinking about investing in a better wood burner. I thought about wood burning the scales in but the cheap one I have the heat is very inconsistent. I was considering highlighting the scales with it to see how it might turn out. What do you think about doing that?
I think I'm going to try to make a small fishing fly to mount in the mouth to hang it by.
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A whittle penguin 😁
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Great little penguin Doug. ::tu::
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doglegg wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:13 pm Great little penguin Doug. ::tu::
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Don't let the whittle things bug you!:-)
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Spring flowers whittled from match sticks and one toothpick with my Case Seahorse whittler.
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Doug you have found your calling. ::nod:: ::nod::
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doglegg wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:25 am Doug you have found your calling. ::nod:: ::nod::
I know just enough to laugh at myself!
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