Puffin Pattern

[jax]

Anyone have an Atlantic Puffin pattern they would care to share?

I am interested in the wings, tail feather groups. All reference photos show up black, no definition. Various web sites were checked out.

Jax.

[AlArchie]

Jax, let me check my pattern file, I think I have one , I know I have one around somewhere!

al

[jax]

AlArchie,

OK

Jax

I've carved puffins, and lately have had the opportunity to handle them. They are much smaller in real life, than any I have carved or have seen carved. If Archie can't find anything I might be able to come up with some reference for you. Gordon Stiller has patterns online if you want to look. I'm going to document and blueprint a puffin , but won't be able to get to it, until later this fall. I`m behind in my orders, and cant find *extra time. I`ll watch to see how Archie makes out though. * Also Wildfowl Carving and Collecting had a puffin pattern in their magazine a few yrs back. If you go to their site, and do a search you should be able to find it.

[AlArchie]

Jax, I emailed you that feather pattern for the puffin....don't know if it is accurate enough for you. Let me know if it came through OK.

Al

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Al...did you ever do your Puffin? probably like me and my Heron lol, and the pattern...ummm...is it all yellowed with age? ha ha :P

[AlArchie]

Nope, Dave, the puffin is still on the carving vice, hangin in the floor joist in the basement. In fact I think it's been there far too long, and maybe it was green wood when I started, cuz it's starting to shoot out roots and has budded a few new branches! Gotta get at that thing!

Al

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

LOL....been there done ???? been there 'doing' that ha ha!

[jax]

Al,

Thank you, pattern received and downloaded....it's exactly what I needed for the feather patterns.

I'll start on it tomorrow and alternate it with the Goldeneye I'm working on.

Hopefully I can return the favor.

Also, thanks to all who responded to my request.

Jax