August Workbench

[larry A]

[quote Will let these dudes cure out for the next five days in the heat and then cut out. 8 cans 4 each of different patterns and three redheads
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Tom, what are the rough dimensions of those glued up cork bodies with the wood bases.  Are they 4.75"x 6"x 12"?
Larry

[BobM]

Flying woodcock on the bench I expect it will be sept nov bench till its done. One piece bbootywood .
Bobm

[tom modin]

larry the most narrow block is 7.5" and is 14 or a touch less long. The others I needed 1x10 stuff to bottom board putting them around 8 to 8.5" wide and 14" or a little less in length. All due to planing of the bottom board will top out at 3.5" or a little more. Better to be wide than tall when hunting the footprint floats your bird much higher negating the need for height, plus a relaxed bird is a wide bird.

[larry A]

Thanks Tom, that's some big birds. Larry

[Matt D4]

Here's a tupelo and acrylics gadwall I'm finishing up

[tom modin]

looks much better on the computer than it did on the iphone. Not that it looked bad on the iphone

[tom modin]

Thanks Tom, that's some big birds. Larry

Larry we like them a touch wider than life sized but not too much and we hunt them all. The guy who I am gluing and cutting them out for will be dragging them all over the country hunting in a very wide array of conditions. Might as well make them to meet the worst conditions. The best thing is I will get to hunt over them wherever he is working

[Dave Speer]

Matt that gadwall looks great!

Tom, you carving that cork, or shipping cutouts to your TX buddy?  Where's your man headed in TX?

[tom modin]

it is going to Texas next week. he is coming through town after a weekend at home to visit his family. He lives and works between Lubbock and Amirillo down in the Palo Duro Canyon.

[larry A]

Tom, Those look really good, your buddy is going to have some nice blanks to start out with. Will he need deep keels on the wide body cork decoys to get them to self right?  Larry

[Danny Lewis]

Sweet Gadie Matt!

[D. Fisher]

I really like your hen woodrows George.
Dan

[Jake P]

it is going to Texas next week. he is coming through town after a weekend at home to visit his family. He lives and works between Lubbock and Amirillo down in the Palo Duro Canyon.

The Happy, texas  area? That's my stompin grounds!

[tom modin]

Tom, Those look really good, your buddy is going to have some nice blanks to start out with. Will he need deep keels on the wide body cork decoys to get them to self right?  Larry

He is like me larry and probably will ballast them if they self right good if not oh well.

[tom modin]

Got oil on this week, well a little more oil, heads to do and whites to apply