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In my family it had nothing to do with age, but responsibility and good judgement, those things are what determined hunting privileges. I think the first time I actually hunted with a shotgun was at 9, it was even on my own, but I'll bet dad and grandpa were watching me from the barnyard as I...

I'm guessing you are talking about an airbrush. Don't waste your money on a harbor freight brush. There is an AIRBRUSH thread on the carver's corner. It never got much traction and is well down the page, but it might answer some of your questions. As far as those wood duck bills looking...

fine looking work Ben, what kind of wood is that.

That swan looks fantastic, I think canvas decoys are above my pay grade.

On rare occasion I do a little wood carving. I'm badly allergic to wood dust, but sometimes it just has to be done. I look like someone doing hazmat duty, but it still only helps marginally. I've been working on this pintail urn off and one for several weeks, work a few hours and recover for...

Scoter day. I've had this order for over 3 years and finally put my head down and finished them. I've put them here on the airbrush thread to describe how I sometimes airbrush over black flocking. Now it's a given that if I was hunting these decoys I'd just flock the drakes black and call it...

I can smell the sawdust from that red cedar, a lot more pleasant than western cedar.

Repairing flocked decoys. Every now and then I get a decoy back for repair, usually it's from a dog retrieving it or as in this case an overambitious 10 year old just getting started on his waterfowling journey. He made a good shot, the duck would have been dead had it been a real duck. The...

Thank you Steve, such a great resource and gift to this community of waterfowlers. It helps to take the mystery out of some of the colors we can't decipher.

Well, I have over 300 decoys in 2/3rds of a 3 car garage that acts as the main shop and another converted guest room that I do a lot of hand painting in. Of those 300 decoys, none of them are mine, all in various stages of incompleteness. My personal decoys are in the mower shed, maybe a...

that's a bunch of good looking decoys. My shop is similar looking, decoys everywhere.