What's on your work bench?-April
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William Reinicke
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Nothing crazy here. Last final push of some foamer mallard that I’ll hang and bang all next season. After this batch, it gets me to 3 dozen foamers, a dozen 10 year old Dakota refinishes, and some full body mallards. Plenty for anything I’m doing. I’ll have to go back and play around to see if I can substitute these to be field decoys as well. I have some ideas. But I’m really looking forward to the mental grind of learning to make a new species. Of course that means a new mold…. So weird different things coming for the May thread, hopefully.
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I made this hen gadwall for my baby sisters college graduation gift. I’ve only been waterfowling for a couple of years now. Short enough to remember my first duck, which was a gadwall hen that my sister saw before me.
This is my fourth decoy I’ve carved and painted. It is pink foam body, basswood head, walnut shell restle coated, and painted with Steve Sanfords Behr paint schedule.
This is my fourth decoy I’ve carved and painted. It is pink foam body, basswood head, walnut shell restle coated, and painted with Steve Sanfords Behr paint schedule.
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William Reinicke
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Love the side heads that are being posted. I may need to figure out how to get in on that action with some of my birds.
completely off topic.... how you like that suzu outboard? Im going to need to replace my 08 opti in the next 5-7 years I think, and Im already looking at suzuki motors. I keep hearing really good things, except that they are slow due to the gearing in them. But I think they just just released a new gearing system this year to compete with the yammies and mercs
I did something somewhat similar. I made my nephew and niece a decoy of their first duck. A drake gadwall for him and a hen wood duck for her. That gadwall decoy was the one that I really felt like I figured out how to paint them on. A couple of years ago I made him a pair of magnum cork gadwall for his rig. He hunts them every time he goes.
patrick mccarthy
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Bomber nice work! I like the rack they sit on keeps them nice and organized
Bomber
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I like the motor since Mercs hate me I also love the Yamaha motors. This was on the boat when I got it. No issues
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Thanks Pat
William Reinicke
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lol mercs hate a lot of people. If you aren’t pushing a Merc to almost the rev limiter, they don’t like anyone. An old man told me a long time ago, if you ain’t runnin a Merc like you stole it, you better be good with a wrench. Since I’ve made that a priority and I’m always within 200-400 rpm of the rev limiter and ive really had no issues with any of them.
Is yours real quiet? That’s what I keep hearing about the Suzukis
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LOL, this is why i just sold my Merc and wish I had kept my Nissan 18 back when I sold my old mv jon!!
William Reinicke
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When my opti goes pop, I’ll look real hard at Suzukis. But I know those yammies are pretty damn fast once the ecm gets flashed.
Steve Sanford
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Sweet rig all around! Great assortment of postures. Will you be adding keels?
All the best,
SJS
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Bomber
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They were part of a celebartion of life for a friend who died in January. The bottoms have photos of him and different hunting buddies on them, so I made spoon wieghts and leather anchor points for the guys that are going to want to hunt them. Here are the bootoms
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William Reinicke
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THIS IS BADASS!!! I might steal this idea..... Hope you are ok with it? Im not really asking permission, just more informing you of what will more than likely happen. I can quote your idea MLA format, on each decoy, if that helps.
That's pretty freaking awesome!