Match stick decoy

really lovely well done my wife loves it too regards Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Very cool! How is the block made in the first place? Would this qualify as “smoked” duck?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

ooh, Charlie, painful

agree with question though. How did you make the block?

-- Kate, http://www.wooden-box-maker.com

Thanks Scotsman, I really appreciate the kind comment! Charlie, I just built the block up by laying burnt matchsticks like bricks. I started with a sheet of waxed paper over some plywood and used wood glue as the mortar for the joints. After each layer of matches, I draped the wax paper over that layer and placed a board with something heavy on it for the clamping. Once dried, I pulled back the wax paper and laid another course, alternating again the ‘bricks’. I just used my finger to work the glue into the joints. Speaking of which, I haven’t tried smoking a duck. ;-)

Too cool!

-- I'm a wood magician... I can turn fine lumber into firewood before your very eyes! - http://www.woodworkersguide.com

Neato !

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

One of the neatest things I have seen on this site.

-- Garyb6, “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler” - Albert Einstein

Very nice!

-- Scott - Katy, Texas

I’m speechless, just trying to grasp 12,000 matchsticks! Very sharp!

-- Talent on Loan from God - Rush Limbaugh ----------www.genesiswoodworks.com----------

Agree with garyb6, one of the neatest things I’ve seen, how creative, and what a great effect. Well done!!!!

-- Dan Wiggins

Great carving! And I am saving my match sticks from now on. This has given me so many ideals you wouldn’t believe it. Thanks for posting.

-- - " If you want square work, You don't cut corners. " - -- Tom Goodman, Santa Maria, CA. woodworkertom@gmail.com

Most creative material an excellent carving. I really enjoy your work.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Thanks Jim and everyone. I have a couple of other canes to post later. I also have one cane shaft that I made several years ago where I glued toothpicks around a dowel rod and filled in the between space with epoxy made black with India ink. It has a pretty cool effect to but I haven’t finished the ‘head’ on it yet. Thanks for looking at some of my stuff.

Your projects are incredible! Beautiful, unique, enthralling work. A real joy to see your projects…

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

It is guys like you that make this site so #$%^&* addicting!!!!!

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

Wow! Great job. And people think I have a lot of patience.

-- Dennis Zongker

super job and great imagination.

-- Bug from Minnesota