2010 Tentative Program Schedule

The August meeting was called to order

by President Steve Stortz and a motion

was made and passed to accept the min-

utes of the July meeting. 26 members

present.

Librarian’s Report: Todd has placed

several photos on the MDWCC website

that were taken at the 2012 Pacific Fly-

way Decoy Show in Sacramento, CA.

Old Business: Game Fair 2012– We

seem to have plenty of volunteers for the

six days and the weather looks great for

the first weekend.

New Business: Mark Lau and Jim Bon-

ham donated their 2011 Game Fair de-

coys to charity auctions. That’s a great

use for these birds given to the MDWCC.

President Steve Stortz informed the at-

tending members that he and his wife

have sold their Montrose farm and are

planning to move to Colorado in the next

few months. We will all miss his humor

and story telling. He’ll be telling those

stories to a bunch of elk hunters this fall.

Happy hunting Steve! Buckle up Frank.

Program: The September program

will be presented by Dave Jackson. He

will talk about the painting of stamped

detail on decoys.

MDWCC Officers

2011

President

Steve Stortz 763.360.8123

Vice President

Frank Beery 612.724.4188

Treasurer/Membership

Bruce Bauer 952.471.9084

Secretary/Editor

Donn Mattsson 952.935.6910

Librarian

Todd Moucha 952.233.4038

Program Chair

Tom Flemming 952.446.8226

Dennis Finden 651.261.2285

MDWCC website: www.mdwcc-

carving-club.com

August Meeting Minutes

Program: Tom Kerr will take on the

subject of woodburning at the October

meeting. Tom has carved a lot of deco-

rative birds and has spent many hours

working on this skill. This is a subject

that is probably long overdue for our

monthly program. There should be lots

of questions.

Game Fair 2012

Next Meeting: 7:00 PM

September 4, 2012

’Stamping’ Antiques 2

Dave Jackson

Hope Lutheran Church

5728 Cedar Ave. So.

Mpls., MN

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Monthly Newsletter

Minnesota Decoy & Wildfowl

Carving Club Volume 5 Issue 9

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Rich

Zoe

Frank

Bruce

Todd

2010 Tentative Program Schedule

Show & Tell

August Show & Tell

Phil Nelson - Hooded Merganser pair; Red-breasted Merganser “Illinois style’; antique mallard

Norm Busta—E. Screech Owl, red phase,tupelo, acrylics. Bob Guge pattern

Paul Thompson—2 “discard” duck heads made into lamp finials, acrylics.

Don Stannard - Common Eider hen from Krausman’s seminar, tube oils.

Ed Schuck– Elmer Crowell mini Pintail w/ repaired broken tail.

Jim Bonham– 2 Redhead drake decoys,

white pine, acrylics.

Buzz Hultberg-C. Loom, bass-

wood,cedar head. Coot made of cork.

Rich Bistodeau– 2 mega Sunfish, tu-

pelo, acrylics. 2 Rainbow Trout spearing

decoys.

Steve Stortz –antique Johnson folding

mallard decoys w/o boards

Myron Asper– Wigeon pair, Redhead

drake made by Charlie Joiner. Stylized

mallard.

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If man

evolved from

monkeys and

apes, why do

we still have

monkeys and

apes?

2010 Tentative Program Schedule

Show & Tell con’t

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August Program - Stamping Antique Decoys- Dave Jackson

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Dave Jackson bravely volunteered to present a program about

a subject which he admittedly had very little knowledge, but was

personally quite interested in researching. At the August general

meeting he shared what he has learned concerning the technique

of stamping duck decoys.

Apparently ’stamping’ in North America started in southern

Canada and migrated to the USA in the mid 1800’s. Carvers

would make tools that would stamp an impression into the

wood , thereby creating feather groups quite quickly. For busy

decoy carvers stamping could save a lot of carving and painting

time. Wing impressions could be quickly applied. Dave brought

some examples of tools he had made from pipe.

Dave brought in several examples of decoys he has experi-

mented with. Beside the basic feather groups he has also tried

texturing heads by ‘coggling’ with a gear wheel (bottom left).

All this stamping helps to reduce glare and diffuse light on the

decoy. He surmised that other applications for stamping tools

could be to create scales on fish decoys and carvings.

The next step in Dave’s education is see what happens when he

paints his decoys. At the September meeting he will hopefully

bring in some of his finished birds.