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Looking forward to seeing them.

It will hunt. I’ll throw a keel on it and try again. I love the colors and head shape.

So unfortunately I can’t handle having a decoy I’m dissatisfied with. The back is too high. When I scaled it down I did not adjust the height of the body. Of course it would have worked fine but I decided to alter it with paint before I stripped it and reshaped it. My wife thinks I’m crazy...

Well it’s 95% done. Need to soften the lines a bit. I didn’t take the back down enough, but my wife suggested I add to the neck which made a pretty big difference. I am looking forward to another one. I’ll make the tail longer and back shorter.

Thanks. I was really pleasantly surprised how easy it was. I definitely used everyone’s advice here and then just went at it. Just can’t decide if it’s a hen or drake. What does everyone think? Maybe I’ll take a poll and let you all decide.

I took a head that I discarded, cut it down and whipped up a body today. I’m sort of happy with it so far!

Took it to the bandsaw and I feel better now. I might take the back down a little more.

Well the bad news is that I am really unhappy with the head and the head to body ratio. The good news is that I think I can fix it. But it’s my first try at a non-ducks-in-a-row diver decoy.

Very good info thank you all.

I did a search and found some info but am curious with everyone’s experience with carving sleeper decoys. Do I just knock out a normal body and carve the head as a sleeper or is there more to it? I bet I’m overthinking it.

Yes in some cases. Hence my multi year quest for a mature long tail duck. I have harvested my share of juvenile drakes that came in straight on. I lost the only mature bird on a guided hunt because they didn’t want to pick up birds until 2-3 were down on the water.

Not only do I have good advice here, I have several paint schemes to mimick! Good head on a football. lol. I keep telling myself ducks are round and decoys don’t need carved in feathers to work.

Can’t forget the ladies! Not as enthused as I am with the drake but she will do.

Not complete, but a fun head to start carving.