Posted on 12/09/2018 5:22:43 AM PST by mylife
Hi all, Long story short, I am looking for carving blanks or roughouts. I don't have time to do this stuff from scratch no more. my eyes are weak, my fingers are thin.. the old band saw aint been fired up in a long time and I might lose a finger...
Anyhow I am looking for a good source on carving roughouts or blanks, so I don't spend a ton of time on hogging out a hunk of wood on the band saw.
I recall a place in Trumbull Co Ohio called Beaver Dam Decoys, I was in their shop years ago, they had EVERYTHING.
Where did they go?
Mountain woodcarvers is good too
Help
You lookin to make duck decoys?
A largemouth bass LOL
seems no one sells woodcarving stuff no more.
WTF happened to Smokey Mountain Carvers Supply?!!!
Might want to take a look at Frank Miller Lumber, their front room section. Union, Ohio/Indiana, just north of Greenville, Ohio right on the Ohio Indiana border. I get 95 percent of my wood supplies there.
In a rush to help a FRiend I did a search for other woodcarving supplies without reading your source for the post. Sorry I didn’t respond properly.
Geez I’ll be making my own knives again.
I made this one with a rock... /s
Thank Mime.
It seems we are losing sources, they are getting whittled down.
jeese I cant find a cheat anymore
In the 70’s & 80’s I did some carving of gun stocks. The tools I used could be bought at Kmart or model airplane stores. I have not seen them in years.
Seems like traditional hobbies of years gone by have been replaced by electronic gadgetry.
I recall spending hours if not days on just one gun stock, getting the lines perfect. Getting the parts to fit perfectly. Then admiring the finished weapon, knowing the rifle stock was as good or better than a factory one.
I miss the simplicity of that era.
So you see Smokey Mountain Woodcarvers site is basically defunct now.
Beaver Dam Decoys too.
Jeeze guys, don’t make me do it the old way now LOL
If they have sugar pine, basswood, butternut, tupelo or walnut, I guess that is a start.
Ah the pleasures of a fine walnut gun stock LOL
this place is amazing.
all hand done
Rockler here is the place
in SoCal.
seems no one sells woodcarving stuff any more. ......................... Its a dying art. I use to go to the decoy show in Harve de Grace MD. It use to occupy 3 school buildings the 1st weekend in May. The last time I was there it was down to one building. The old timers are disappearing and today’s generation? Forgetaboutit.
web site?
I refurbish old Army footlockers
and Rockler has tons of
Fancy Wood blanks, tools
and Hardware.
They even put on Classes
from time to time.
Thanks to all that leave me a trail of wood chips to follow.
No time to carve now, but I will be back!
lessons learned.. the #3 fishtail gouge, a good bench knife, a good detail knife and a macaroni gouge is all you really need
And a strop loaded with Herbs Yellowstone.
Rockler.com
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