Havre de Grace decoy museum

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silenthunterstudios

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Going to visit the Have a Disgrace decoy museum (little inside joke for the locals, it is a neat little town) hopefully this weekend. Was going to go this afternoon, but missing yesterday for sickness, and most of this morning, I couldn't not come in to work. Anyway, I've always wanted to go, and always got there too late, or I got caught up in taking in the great view of the Chesapeake Bay from the promenade. Anyway, tomorrow will definitely be devoted to the decoy museum. I've never been a big fan of decoys, but have always been a big fan of all things of the eastern shore of MD, and all things folksy from the eastern shore :D . Anyway, are there any decoy carvers on here, and if so, do you use traditional knives in addition to any other tools of the trade? I'm hoping to see a few carving knives on display, will take pics if I can, I don't have a digital camera on hand. It is something I would like to try my hand at for the experience of it. Looking at the decoys I sometimes see on local streams and creeks, and contrasting that with the amounts I've heard that these older decoys sometimes command, it just boggles the mind.
 
i havent visited that one yet.i have been to the ward brothers decoy museum in salisbury,MD. it was definitly worth the afternoon i spent there. those guys carving ability was nothing short of amazing.i too am a big fan of the eastern shore of MD.i go there for a week every october and do nothing but shoot sporting clays and eat seafood.i get a hotelroom in easton and shoot about 6 or 7 different ranges while i am there. and yes,the prices that some of those old decoys fetch are unreal.
 
Yesterday, I was going to ask you how the decoy museum was, but I got distracted by a fake thread...
 
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