Recent content by Don Mintz

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...