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[Morag Jones]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.

Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!

It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.

I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association.

 

[jb94]

Very nice chair

Thanks, I made life a lot easier for myself by using paper templates from the plans for the seat and backrest.

The publisher launched the pdf online for free and I used some pdf software to print the plans 1:1, stuck to my blanks and traced around on the bandsaw.

 

[jb94]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
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Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!
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It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.
View attachment 198170View attachment 198171
View attachment 198172I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

That’s so realistic I thought the top picture was a reference photo of an actual bird you were working from! Great job

 

[Phill05]

Pinned tennons ocassionally get used in my pieces but I have no proper draw bore pins. Ray Iles sells them but at £75 a pair, which seems a bit expensive for two tapered steel rods with handles on. I keep meaning to grind some steel bar then make the handles meself but the grinding time would be long and I have no means to do it other than by-eye so they'd be wonky. Still, one day.

I like them handles. I've just got into carving handles albeit with proper brass ferules mounted on the handle ends, cut with a dowel maker in the drill press on the handle blanks before I start knifin' at them.

What size of taper pins do you need I have some about 80mm long x 5 to 7 mm taper.

 

[Fitzroy]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
View attachment 198168
Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!
View attachment 198169
It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.
View attachment 198170View attachment 198171
View attachment 198172I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

That is unbelievable, wow! The way the ducks head appears from the wood in the half finished state is like, “hello”.

 

[Fitzroy]

Sliding sashes done, M&Ts straight off the bandsaw with no adjustment needed was an awesome outcome.

 

[Eshmiel]

What size of taper pins do you need I have some about 80mm long x 5 to 7 mm taper.

'Morning Phil,

I've been trying and failing to make the larger scale pins (for10mm dowels/pins) as I only use draw-bored M&Ts on larger items, really. I have pinned smaller M&Ts but not via drawboring (off-setting the tenon and mortise holes) as the pinning is more decorative than functional in those smaller things. But thank you very much for the offer.

 

[CaptainBudget]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
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I honestly thought that was a real duck when I first saw the picture, astonishing work that!

 

[Eshmiel]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
View attachment 198168
Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!

It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.

I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

In-the-round carving frightens me a bit but if my attempts to take up carving take off that duck is the very emblem of the sort of thing I'd like to be able to do - natural forms but also the painting. I have read that the great majority of older carvings in wood evolved as painted items rather than being left as bare wood. The current carving-in-the-round tradition seems to be mostly using light and shadow to "paint" the bare-wood carvings but your duck illustrates just how good painted carving can be.

 

[BentonTool]

I honestly thought that was a real duck when I first saw the picture, astonishing work that!

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
View attachment 198168
Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!
View attachment 198169
It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.
View attachment 198170View attachment 198171
View attachment 198172I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

Morag,
I completely agree with CaptainBudget!
You are a very gifted carver! The bird is exceptionally life-like, similar to the fish you carved on the box you made for the Secret Santa exchanges...
Outstanding!

 

[Blackswanwood]

Nice one @jb94

 

[Stigmorgan]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
View attachment 198168
Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!
View attachment 198169
It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.
View attachment 198170View attachment 198171
View attachment 198172I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

Wow Mo that's unbelievable

 

[thetyreman]

the duck is beautiful! I like how you can see the texture of the open grain on it, which still comes through the painted surface.

 

[Orraloon]

Been working on a carving for an auction this weekend. Have tried to use the natural features of the wood to influence the design. Finished with intrinsic dyes, some metallics, shellac sanding sealer and wax polish.
View attachment 198168
Intended to be a tactile ornament rather than a gunner’s decoy!
View attachment 198169
It has taken about 3 weeks, have really enjoyed the process and will be sad to see it go.
View attachment 198170View attachment 198171
View attachment 198172I will use something a bit easier to carve if I ever do another, but it does feel nice.

It is a Spectacled (or Bronze-winged) Duck. An aggressive species from South America. The auction is for the British Waterfowl Association. View attachment 198167

Seriously good. The raw wood carving was good but the colours and feather texture make it very lifelike.