Jonas, Joe - Mallard Drake Duck Carving

Jonas, Joe - Mallard Drake Duck CarvingJoe Jonas is an award winning duck carver and has been at the craft for more than 30 years. His most prized carvings are realistic as opposed to many artists who carve more simplified duck decoys. Jonas has also taken first place in decoy carving competitions in 37 states. Jonas shapes the wood using saws, files and a variety of differently shaped knives. He uses a hot, thin blade to etch the individual strands for each feather on the bird and the

The Hardy locking seat has a varnished walnut spacer in up-locking configuration

Comes with zippered suede case

As shown in the photos there is some amateurly-applied initials in the winding plate but they are fairly faint

Wrapped garnet with black trim

The rod also comes with its original bag and labeled tube

I hand delivered the first prototype of this salmon model to a customer

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Comes with a yellow poplin bag and aluminum tube with brass fittings and the Leonard data sticker

emerald green at the winding check

The tip has dead-match colored wraps and aging to match the other sections perfectly

A few dings and scrapes here and there cosmetically but nothing objectionable for most fisherman

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