Heads and Necks, Frank Werner
by Frank Werner
Head and neck joints can make or break a decoy. Big birds with high heads are particularly vulnerable as it will be necessary to align the grain with the long axis of the neck, as well as that of the bill. Moisture cycling, especially for a decoy, will soon wreck a common butt joint.
HEAD & NECK JOINTS explains what’s going on with wood as it swells and shrinks in response to moisture. See how you can make a joint that will not be affected by moisture cycling.
Canada Goose by Frank Werner
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| Read the full text of the article in Wildfowl Carving Magazine, Winter 2002 |
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(This issue is not available from the IWCA Store, but it is available as a back issue from Wildfowl Carving Magazine.) |
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Ed note: While the full text is in the Winter 2002 issue of WCM, Frank has contributed a pattern for a goose head. You can print this pattern using the following directions: 1. Move your cursor to the pattern and right-click. 2. Select "Save image as..." 3. Save the image to your desktop. 4. Then, go to your desktop and open the image. 5. Print 100%, no margins. 6. To be sure your printer has printed your full image, check the printed image by measuring from the base of the neck to the top of the head. This length should be nine (9) inches. |
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF DECOY RELATED PUBLICATIONS Frank Werner
PERIODICALS DECOY MAGAZINE P.O. Box 1900 MBS, Ocean City, MD 21842 Bi?Monthly
WILDFOWL ART P.O. Box 3416, Salisbury, MD 21802 Semi-Annually
WILDFOWL CARVNG P.O. Box 1831, Harrisburg, PA 17105 Quarterly
DECOYS Becker, A.C., DECOYING WATERFOWL, A.S. Barnes & Co., 1973. Bourne, Wade, DECOYS & Proven Methods For Using Them, Ducks Unlimited, 2000 Byrd, Cindy, AN EXPLORATION OF DECOY HISTORY, Wildfowl Art Magazine, Winter 2009 Casson, Paul W., DECOYS SIMPLIFIED, Freshet Press, 1972. Chesser, Grayson C., MAKING DECOYS,The Century Old Way (W/ Badger, Curtis J.), Tidewater Publishers, 2006. Connett, Eugene V., DUCK DECOYS, D. Van Nostrand, 1953. Coykendall, Ralf Sr., DUCK DECOYS AND HOW TO RIG THEM, Winchester Press, 1955. Bruette, William, AMERICAN DUCK, GOOSE & BRANT SHOOTING, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944 Holmes, A. G., DUCK DEOYS; How to Make Them—How to Set Them Out, The Outing Magazine, Volume XXXIX, Oct 1901—March 1902 Hunt, Lynn Bogue, HOW TO IMPROVE DUCK WATERS AND MAKE DECOYS, The Outing Magazine, Volume XLIX, Oct, 1906—Marck 1907, Leopold, Aldo, MALLARD DECOYS, Field and Stream, Nov 1920 Miller, Warren H., DECOY MAKING; The Sportsman’s Workshop, Stewart Kidd Company, Cincinnati. Sawyer, W.E., CORK DUCK AND SNIPE DECOYS, Field and Stream, Sept 1912
MATERIALS Butler, Robert L., WOOD FOR WOOD-CARVERS and CRAFTSMEN, A. S. Barnes and Co, Inc, 1974. Source, Selection, Cutting, Treatment, Drying of Flitches and Guidance in Their Use Doerner, Max, THE MATERIALS OF THE ARTIST And Their Use in Painting, Harcourt, Brace and Company, rev. 1949 Hoadley, R. Bruce, UNDERSTANDING WOOD, Taunton Press, 1980, ________ A craftsman’s guide to wood technology. United Stated Department of Agriculture, WOOD HANDBOOK; Wood as an Engineering Material, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA, rev. 1987, __________ Haygreen, John G. and Bowyer, Jim L., FOREST PRODUCTS AND WOOD SCIENCE, Iowa State University Press, 1982 Kubler, Hans, WOOD as building and hobby material, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1980 Mayer, Ralph, THE ARTISTS HANDBOOK of materials and techniques, Viking, rev. 1991,_________ Panshin, A. J. & De Zeeuw, Carl, Textbook of Wood Technology, McGraw-Hill, Inc, 1980,_______
ORNITHOLOGY and NATURAL HISTORY Allen, Arthur A., THE BOOK OF BIRD LIFE, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1961 Allen, Glover M., BIRDS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES, Marshall Jones Company, 1925 Bellrose, Frank C., DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA, Stackpole Books, 1978 Bent, Arthur Cleveland, LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WILDFOWL, Dover Publications, Inc., 1987 Coues, Elliot, KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, (V0L 1), Dana Estes & Co., 1903 Freethy, Ron, HOW BIRDS WORK; A Guide to Bird Biology, Blandford Books Ltd. (UK), 1982 Heintzelman, Donald S., NORTH AMERICAN DUCKS, GEESE & SWANS, Winchester Press, 1978 Kortright, Francis H., THE DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS OF NORTH AMERICA, The Stackpole Company, 1967 Todd, Frank S., WATERFOWL; Ducks, Geese and Swans of the World, Sea World, Inc., 1979 Wallace, George J. & Mahan, Harold D., AN INTRODUCTION TO ORNITHOLOGY, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975 Welty, Joel Carl, THE LIFE OF BIRDS, W. B. Saunders Company, 1975
WILDFOWL CARVING Burk, Bruce, GAME BIRD CARVING, Winchester Press, 1972, 1982. Gilley. Wendell H., THE ART OF BIRD CARVING; A Guide to a Fascinating Hobby, Hillcrest Publications, Inc., 1972 Le Master, Richard, WILDLIFE IN WOOD, Contemporary Books, Inc., 1978. _________________ ,WATERFOWL; The Artists Guide to Anatomy, Attitude and Color, Contemporary Books, Inc. 1983 ________________ ,DECOYS; The Art of the Wooden Bird, Contemporary Books, Inc. 1882 Matus, Tom, DUCK DECOYS, Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., 2003 Schroeder, Roger, HOW TO CARVE WILDFOWL, Stackpole Books, 1984. Spielman, Patrick, MAKING WOOD DECOYS, Sterling Publishing, 1982. Starr, George Ross, Jr., HOW TO MAKE WORKING DECOYS, Winchester Press, 1978. Veasey, William, WATERFOWL CARVING, BLUE RIBBON TECHNIQUES, Schiffer Publishing, 1982. ______________THE MAKING OF HUNTING DECOYS, Schiffer Publishing, 1986.
DECOY COLLECTING, COLLECTIONS & COLLECTORS Bigelow, Paul, W., COLLECTING DUCK DECOYS, Decoy Collector’s Guide Barber, Joel D., WILDFOWL DECOYS, Windward House: Dover Publications, 1934. Colio, Quintina, AMERICAN DECOYS: From 1865 to 1920, Quintina Colio: Science Press, 1972 Earnest, Adele, THE ART OF THE DECOY, Bramhall House, 1965. Engers, Joe, Editor, THE GREATBOOK OF WILDFOWL DECOYS, Cynthia Parzych Publishing, 1990. Gosner, Kenneth L., WORKING DECOYS OF THE JERSEY COASTAND DELAWARE VALLEY, Art Alliance Press, 1985. Gard, Ronald J. and McGrath, Brian J.,The WARD BROTHERS' DECOYS ; A Collectot's Guide, Henington Publishing, 1989 Harrell, Loy S., Jr, DECOYS; North America’s One Hundered Greatest, Krause Publications, 2000 ________________, DECOYS; Sixty Living and Outstanding North American Carvers, Fox Chapel Publishing Co. Inc., 2006 Johnsgard, Paul A., Ed., THE BIRD DECOY: An American Art Form, University of Nebraska Press, 1976. Kangas, Gene & Linda, DECOYS: A North American Survey, Hillcrest Publications, 1983. Lacy, Tandy, THE WOODEN BIRD: Heritage Bird Carvers of the Upper Illinois River Valley, Sun Foundation, 1989. Mackey, William F. Jr., AMERICAN BIRD DECOYS, Bonanaza Books, 1965. Mattsson, Karly and Sullivan, C. John Jr., CAPTURED IN WOOD, Havre De Grace Decoy Museum, 1999 Miller, Michael & Hanson, Fredrick, WILDFOWL DECOYS OF THE PACIFIC COAST, MBF Publishing, 1968. Reiger, George, FLOATERS AND STICK?UPS, Dand R. Godine, 1986. Shaw, Bob, DECOYS: A UNIQUE AMERICAN ART, Western Art Digest, pgs. 102?107, Summer 1985. Schorsch, David A., AMERICAN DECOYS: A Folk Tradition, Antiquarian Equities, Inc., 1996, 1998. Solis?Cohen, Lita, A SHOW OF DECOYS, Renew: San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 1987. Starr, George Ross, Jr., DECOYS OF THE ATLANTIC FLYWAY, Winchester, 1974. Waingrow, Jeff, AMERICAN WILDFOWL DECOYS, E.P. Dutton, 1986. No list of published photographic reference material is offered, as much of what is currently available includes aviary birds, birds which have been pinioned, and birds which have been photographed in box-like enclosures. A number of decoy-titled items are listed under Wildfowl Carving as I feel they are of limited usefulness to decoy makers. I believe Hoadley and Mayer and Coues to be the most important titles of all those mentioned.
Wildfowl Carving Magazine Articles Published Frank Werner
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