Zachary

Congratulations on your first decoy! For patterns as well as technique, here are a few books that I have found useful Making Decoys...

Almost forgot about our own resource page that also shows Steve Sanford's paint schemes and other cool info...

Zachary, not having a large bandsaw is no problem, I still don't have one; only a table top 9". For me buying and using a small bandsaw...

You could do it all off a work bench in a garage. I would think the carving of the cork and the tools for assembly of the decoy would...

To be honest I had never even heard of flocking until this forum and I have never used an airbrush before. But there’s a first time for...

So a few more questions: What tooling do you have or plan to use? Bandsaw big enough to cut body profiles? Hand tools like knives, draw...

Thank you for the links! I really appreciate you going out of your way to help. Right now all I have are rasps, knives, a draw knife...

Believe I'd rather give them too much credit than too little. Rather have a chance at 'em all than just those stepping off the bus.

I don’t think it matters. I think we give the ducks entirely too much credit for their cognitive abilities. Would it look odd to us...

I use Rustoleum gloss enamel paint on my decoys. I flock all my decoys though, so it cuts down on the sheen dramatically. I think if I...

Kind of depends. You could double the size as long as you doubled the size of everything else so all the species in your rig are...

Thank you! I’ve been hitting YouTube pretty hard lately, I saw Tom Christie’s videos yesterday and started watching a couple of them...

How oversized can I go before it’s too big on a green wing teal? Would roughly double be too much?

Thank you for the tips!

Thank you!