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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.

that's a dandy Mark

What i use is determined by what we plan to target. What I want is a 12 slot bag of every species we chase, so that would be 12 slots with Redheads, barrows GE, Common GE, bufflehead, ringer, wigeon, lesser scaup, ruddy, canvasback, oldsquaw, wood duck, and shoveler. We don't have hardly any...

I wished I got that response from my wife. Once in a great while she will latch on to something. I think she's just around my stuff so much that she's no impressed anymore. Most of the time she doesn't even know what I'm making at the time. Any carvings we have are because I refused to sell...