Recent content by Zachary

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 everything! I may end up trying it but at the moment I don’t actually have a workspace. The barn I was using as a workshop for my other hobbies got destroyed...

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, power drill, and a dremel. I have a bandsaw but it’s not big enough for cutting bodies. I only used hand tools for the decoy I made. Right now I am just...

Thank you! I’ve been hitting YouTube pretty hard lately, I saw Tom Christie’s videos yesterday and started watching a couple of them. The local gun shop has several antique decoys, some wood and some cork, that I have been studying whenever I visit. I actually based the head of my decoy off of...

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!

I can happily say that it floats and self rights. I might add just a touch more weight to its right side but overall it looked good.

Thank you! I was going for a ringed neck duck, the only species that I usually see where I go hunting are teal, ringed neck, and the occasional wood duck. The block was just big enough that I thought it would be waste to make a smaller duck. Plus I thought a wood duck was a tad too ambitious for...

Benp, Thank you for the comment! I plan on it, and my future decoys, staying with me for as many future hunting seasons as possible. I plan on testing it out tomorrow morning to make sure I have it weighted right and to see how it behaves in the water. As for my next dozen, I am waiting to hear...

Howdy, new member and duck hunter from Florida. I started duck hunting in 2025 thanks to a deer hunting buddy. Just about finished carving my first duck decoy. I was given a block of black cork and a piece of basswood by a coworker who had gotten it from a local decoy carver 10+ years ago for an...