Learn to carve a working wooden canvasback drake duck decoy using the same traditional methods as in the early twentieth century. Carve your decoy using hand tools and finish it with paint and glass eyes. Leave with a finished decoy ready for hunting or an honored spot on your mantle. Hunters, woodworkers, and antique decoy enthusiasts alike will delight in this traditional American craft. Please bring a straight blade carving knife. Product: drake canvasback decoy.
Enrollment: 4 to 6
Minimum age: 14
b/ February 17-19, 2011, Friday-Sunday, 9:00-5:00pm
Tuition: $235
Materials: $30
Cook's Mill, Scotts, MI
With Paul Rutgers
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