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JACK COMBS 7359 Cartwheel Drive Hazelwood MO 63042
314-831-0515
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| In 1985, Jack Combs saw a write-up in the newspaper about a duck carver from Belleville, IL named Bill Willett who was giving a weekend workshop on carving ducks. It sounded interesting, so he signed up. |
As to why he took up carving, Jack says "...the satisfaction I get when a chunk of wood turns into a piece of wildlife art…the challenge of trying to replicate one of God’s masterpieces as closely as possible…the ego-boosting compliments I receive from people at shows (tempered with criticism from judges at competitions). But mostly, when people are willing to spend hard-earned money to own a piece of art that I have created... that’s the ultimate compliment." |
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The most often-asked question of bird and waterfowl carvers is “how long did it take you to complete that piece?” The answer is: thousands and thousands of hours. Each piece is a compilation of all the hours spent on the pieces that have come before: the hours spent on research, the experiments that failed, the anger and frustration that ends with a piece of wood in the trash, the repetition of carving bird after bird all go into the piece of work just completed. " If the real question is how much are you getting per hour for that piece…if I am really lucky, about a buck and a quarter!" |