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I ran out of decoys to paint today so I started another cork ringer in the woodshop with some numb fingers. Of course cork is not quite as easy to handle as pink foam. What does everyone else use to carve cork? I used my rasp, foredome, and sandpaper. This is only my second cork decoy (no...

March 21st in Ohio. Ohio decoy carvers and collector association. Big show, lots of great collectors. Anyone else going? If so let’s meet up for a drink!

This continues to be a great option for me Don. In my experiments so far I am having better luck with consistent pupils using the end of a small paint brush dipped in black paint that I did with the paint pen. Just fyi for anyone else.

Again I went to the Steve Sanford site for paint advice. I’m working on three more of them now.

Finall product.

I compromised tonight.

I was happy to finish this one tonight. I dread doing hens but Steve Sanford has such great info. I sent the picture to some friends and they couldn’t ID it though. Lol.

I’ll be honest that’s right up the alley of what I want to get to some day.

Are the feather details on the body of this made up of many individual brush strokes?

I had a sudden dreadful thought today. I think that I used to put spar varnish over the tile mastic I used for burlapping decoys before priming. That was 20 years ago. I’ve done 8 or so decoys this winter without varnishing. Just priming. Does anyone just burlap and mastic without sealing...

Part of my problem is that it is hard for me to get excited about painting decoys I didn’t carve. The bodies are some Herters foam decoys I inherited that I burlapped. The heads I carved. But my heart is in diver decoys and they are all gunning decoys.

Confusion aside…paint pens might be interesting. But I did some dry brushing and stepped back 15 feet. Looked great. Birds won’t care. I’ll be honest my black ducks are herters bodies that I inherited from my good friend Jon Yenni and heads that I carved from pine that he gave me. He is not...

Wow I hope you don’t drive yourself completely crazy like I have done over the years. I have owned a lot of boats trying to find the right one. What style of fishing do you do? I exclusively troll on Lake Erie which generally requires a deeper wider boat. I’m a big Hewescraft fan. Heavy...

Typically, your barrel should like the 77 grain better than the 55 grain. My 223 is a 1:12 and won’t shoot anything over 60 grains very well.

Are the flexible And come painted or did you have to paint them? I have a canvasback sitting on a log and want to add a foot to it.