Ah Huntin' We Will Go......

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Nice!... "not" the type of "knot" that we woodcarver are most familiar with...
Wayne...

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Cute little buggers Claude, I hadn't thought about it, but Easter isn't that far away is it?
Wayne...

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I can see this working..... you wait 'till the Mrs. Is in her last week of pregnancy and then you buy her a chainsaw and a couple of cord of wood,.... that should induce labour...

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Nice looking flock of chickens.... You'll enjoy carving with your sons.
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Yup!... I'd say we've seen the " best" years. I grew up in a house with no indoor plumbing and using the Sears catalogue for "other" than ordering ... now i can order toilet paper from China on my phone and have it delivered to my home within days.... they say that's progress, but...

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Nice!... never too early to carve Santa's. I counted today and I have 11 finished for Christmas 2020..
Wayne...

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I use a Razor Tip burner with a medium writing tip to sign ( my initials) on every piece I do.
Wayne...

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Cute little fellar, ..... somebody's gonna be happy on St. Valentine's day.
Wayne...

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Thanks everyone for looking and commenting, I enjoy doing these fellows ( based on a lot of earlier life experiences ) . Scotia Carver referred to this as a "SSRN" . That's a name I came up with to describe my characters "South Shore Red Neck" as I live on the South Shore of Nova...

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I had this fellow started last fall, but pushed him to the back of my bench during the Christmas " rush ". Now that things have returned to somewhat normal I decided to finish him up.
9" tall, basswood, acrylic washes, and a coat of Tried & True.
Hope you like him.....

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Hope he was the life of the party and not the "main course"...
Have a happy and prosperous New Year Merle...
Wayne...

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We've had some bad weather too, but I haven't been able to turn out anything even close to the likes of those ornaments.....
Beautiful carving & painting Mark.
Wayne...

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Thanks everyone for looking and commenting. I've sold quite a few carvings over the years, but I get way more pleasure out of the ones like this that I carve especially for a friend and then give it to them.
Wayne...

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Merry Christmas Bob!.. love those tartan/plaid hats.
Wayne...

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Sounds like a lot of good suggestions to a wide spread problem. It seems most carvers tend to be "old codgers" () and "old codgers" tend to do a lot of reading and hoarding ( I can say this 'cause I'm one ...)
I don't have an issue with the carving part of the problem as...

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They turned out great Tom! I've watched the results of your "paint parties" over the years and your grandchildren have really become quite the artists....... Must take after Grand Paw...
Wayne

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I'm betting I know what your grandsons favorite gift will be this year....
Wayne...

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I finished this one a couple of months ago, and have been waiting until I had a chance to give it to the owner before posting pictures on here.
I'm very fortunate to have had the same family doctor for the past 40 years, in fact he has been the family doctor to 4 generations of my family, and...

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Merry Christmas Ray, enjoy the holidays.
Wayne...

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Great ornaments!.... and you've got a couple of days to spare...
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Wayne...