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    August workbench

    We go through a lot of flocking, I'm impressed with the Flocking Unlimited product. It sifts so nice and shipping is free. Caleb and I flocked 100 pulsators in under 3 hours today. I'm sure glad to have him out here working with me again. We will get to do it again tomorrow. He works 4 ten...
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    August workbench

    Thanks Bob, I'm blushing. We all learn best when we can learn from each other. William and I bounce ideas off each other all the time, nearly every day. I'm always ready to learn something new, a new process or new material a better way to do things. There aren't a lot of people who make...
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    August workbench

    You are starting to do a little customization, here one of these days you are going to be carving on them all like I do. Making the decoys tough was a big issue when I started making them. There is nothing about my custom decoys that resembles anything of the original ones I was making in...
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    August workbench

    The flocking process is labor intensive, but reasonably simple. I can't imagine that there is anyone who has flocked as many decoys as we have over the past 20 years, some years as many as 5000. There have been so many changes in process, upgrades in materials and process. I've tried it all...
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    August workbench

    I'm going to call this post, "a day in the life". All this is going on in both my shop and the craft room in the house. It's for the most part normal procedure for things around here. My shop is nearly always cluttered, just too many things going on at the same time and using the same space...
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    Sleeping Yellowlegs

    those are beautiful. I love your work.
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    August workbench

    my son guided eastern idaho for 4 years, I bought the boat and he guided me any time I could fit in his schedule. I'm sure I went with him 100 times or more over that period of time. Clients would have to pay $600 a day to hire him, half went to the outfitter he worked for of course. It would...
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    August workbench

    I have a vision of carving a 24 inch brown trout my son caught a few years ago when he was guiding on the Henry's Fork. We have good photos to work from. I want to put it leaping up the waterfall in our water feature. I had a pair of full body wood ducks out there for 6 months a year ago, but...
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    August workbench

    I've carved quite a few fish over the years. When I started competing in the National Wood Carvers Assn and the International wood carvers congress, it was primarily in fish. The grayling is from my first competition in Tulsa, OK in the late 1980s. It was a reproduction of a grayling my dad...
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    August workbench

    I've gone through about 5 lbs of flocking since the first of the year. Flocking is about the only step in making decoys I don't really enjoy, but I wouldn't hunt a decoy that wasn't flocked. I'll be ordering another 5 lbs of grey this week.
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