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Here fishy, fishy!!
Everything I am came from my family tradition of decoy carving. My Grandpa Lester Ballard and Uncle Mike filled my ears with fish stories and my spare time with carving tools! Although I prefer Michigan white cedar ( it just smells SO good! ) I also like to work with red pine, walnut, hemlock, driftwood - even old telephone poles! If you take a look at my art work page you'll see a brown trout made from a piece of telephone pole - with the spike hole still in it! I begin by roughing out the forms with a band saw then smoothing a shape with a wood rasp. Then I sit down at my work bench with some of the carving tools passed on to me by Grandpa and Uncle Mike. They may have been sharpened down to just about nothing but I love the feel of their hands underneath mine. Each piece of wood brings out it's own identity - come along and see. |
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