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my first carvings were ducks, but not decoys, miniature flying birds. The wingspans were about 10 inches and I could carve them with exacto knives and eventually graduated up to a dremel with a cable hand piece. Now I have three Foredoms and a variety of carving and sanding tips. I rarely...

Having an extra painter sure lightens the load.

do you have any idea what you are interested in making. I'm guessing decoys, but that wasn't the case in my career. I started carving for a living in 1981, quite a bit of it was waterfowl themed, but very rarely a decoy of any kind, never a working decoy until 22 years ago. I went to a few...

I finished a couple more today. These are fully feathered and hand painted.

I finished up this Barrows GE this morning.

I kept a pretty good journal the first few seasons my boys started hunting and for several years with regular decoys it was kind of hit and miss with daily averages per hunter at just below 3, which we felt pretty good about at the time. Limits were rare though back in those days. The first...

I posted these decoys up on the december workbench, but wanted to elaborate a little on the flocking. I flocked the second coat of black early thursday morning, put them in my drying room till mid afternoon, then painted flat white enamel over the white areas and let it dry until afternoon on...

I enjoyed your written account and photos. Winter has arrived here, but not in such a severe manner. We finally have ducks, nearly two months into the season.

well they float. I wished I had been in the position I took this photo when a group came in. I was figuring the ducks would be at least 3 feet off the water, but they were nearly touching the water with their toes and behind a wall of cattails. It poured and poured on us this afternoon and...

I finally added divers to the list of designs. These 5 drakes are the first to hit the finish line and ready to face off against those moon faced green heads. You might notice that there is no green on the heads, that's just how we do it for our own goldeneye. The closest I'll get to putting...

speaking of turkey decoys, I made these about 15 years ago and flocked them feather brown flocking over leather brown rustoleum, two coats. All of the color is from rustoleum oil based enamels through the airbrush.

excellent videos William. One thing we didn't mention was how much paint, how thick etc. The only thing consistent about rustoleum is its inconsistency in thickness. Sometimes new out of the can it can be sludge, sometimes reasonably thin. I was working with sludge black this morning on...

any decoy that is not rigid is not a good candidate for flocking. Eventually the paint will crack and some will even flex off in pieces. Of course we've seen that even with new decoys. They do make a paint for flexible foam, but it is expensive and I have no idea how it would work for...