I picked up some Black Walnut a while back. Figured I would try it out first making a grunt call. It turned well, but just was lacking something? So I decided to do a quick carving on it.
Here's the rough carving (below):
The start of Painting: (Below): [Notice the grain pattern]
The Finished call:
For the folks new to carving, notice how I used the open grain flow (pores) of this walnut to simulate the hair pattern on this carving. On tighter grained material I would have had to of carved the detail. Learn to let the wood work for you.
Thanks for looking!
HuntnCarve
Dave
