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Wrapped them up today. It’s not how I would paint them myself if I had made them but they are tru-ish to the original paint scheme as near as I can tell.

Thank you Don. I’ll do that. I noticed the epoxy I tried today threw sparks when my bandsaw blade made contact.

I recently started fantasizing about getting a side by side 20 guage. My dad’s friend had one that I use to use to pheasant hunt on his pheasant farm. I loved it. I was a kid then. I don’t hunt upland anymore so if I got it it would be just for targets and maybe layout hunting where birds...

Same issue with the drakes. I realize now that I should have sanded the joining surfaces flat. The years of being broken off had caused the grain to raise with all of the changing temps and humidities.

I have finally gone through all of my foam blocks that I produced 15 years ago. I use 2” think insulating foam, stacked and epoxied together. The epoxy I used to use came from a friend and that is no longer available. What are you using to join foam?

The lathe makes sense. Just wondered why and if they were an advantage. I don’t know that I’ll ever get into wood decoys myself.

I noticed at the recent decoy show that some wood decoys are round bottomed. Why is that? What keeps them upright in the water? Do they float better than flat bottoms?

Definitely fewer vendors than ten years ago but seemed like twice as many private room sales to tour.

I worked on the hen today and made a mistake in reattaching the head, it was originally attached with a dowel that was rotten. I am driving a 5” exterior screw to replace it. Despite my careful planning it was slightly out of place, epoxy sculpt to the rescue.

Well it was a quick in and out for me today. I would have like some time to meet with a few of you but was not in the cards this year.

It’s an inexpensive model from Michael’s. I’ll have to unearth it and look. Nothing fancy.

Today I finally got to a small project I wish I did last summer. I made six “test keels”. They are weighted in a way that will be hidden. They represent the two most common sizes I make. Then I made three of each that represent the three most common lead nugget placements within the wood...

Ever willing to take a short video of your airbrush methods?

It was unpleasant.

You can also let it sit out and rot until they loosen. I’m sure you know this but they are just dense hair sheaths on spikes.