Recent content by Don Mintz

A molded decoy like yours and the damage you show could be fixed with a small amount of apoxie sculpt. You can get it on amazon and it wouldn't take a lot for just one decoy. It's a two part epoxy putty that sticks to just about anything and can be smoothed out with a little water and even...

very good work, it's spot on. Kind of like painting a wood duck, when you think you are done, you're not.

I sent you a message with a solution to patch dings and shot holes with on your private message. It's not something I'm willing to share openly.

shipping is a killer. We had an account with Fedex for years and years with a little discount, but really not enough to help. Our yearly fedex bill was over $20k. This year we switched to pirateship.com and it's cut the shipping cost considerably, they give a few options of what's the least...

yes, I remember it well. those long summer days with no night make it hard to stop doing stuff, especially when you are only a few months away from going back to night. I remember when I had a friend come up from college and took him fishing out on the Chena. He told me he was going to fish...

no such thing as too nice to hunt. The way I see it is a decoy is for hunting, not for display. I rarely carve a decoy for the shelf unless it's an urn and most urns I make are made to hunt a day or two a year. If I'm making something for the shelf, it will be an art piece, a flying duck, a...

I really enjoy working with my son, Caleb. He has a great work ethic and just enjoyable to be around. We've worked together since he got out of college in 2010 except for the past year and a half when he was working as a manager in the local Scheels. Low pay and long hours were beating him...

I've got my son helping me paint decoys now.