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As far as high tech, at one point we had designed a flocking booth that would have shortened the dusting process and contain the flocking much better, but once I moved my shop back home I didn't have the space. The big deal with flocking is painting the glue on, that's what takes time and there...

There are several guys on here capable of a first rate paint job. You might want to post this on the main forum. Most of the cork and wood guys seem to hang out there.

I put flocking on 40 decoys this morning by noon, some full coats, some second coats like the chest of a mallard drake. This is a photo of my high tech flocking set up. A kitchen sieve and a plastic tub, of course normally I'd be covered up with a respirator and goggles. The fishing shirt is...

I finished up the pigeon and dove designs. It's a lot heavier detail than I would do on my own decoys.

you may need to play around with a single decoy. I've heard oxyclean is good, but haven't tried it myself. We have lots of issues with moss leaving a ring around the bottom of decoys here on the snake river. I've never done much more than spray them off in my shop sink with hot water. We...

It really changes things when you are flocking your own decoys. I always put my newly flocked decoys in plastic bags and then slot bags for the first trip, they come home doubled up in the slots, no plastic bags and we don't worry much about it the rest of the season. I know William is pretty...

Those are going to be very effective. I had some decoys that we made 12 years ago sent back for repairs last year. They had been shot with a shotgun and one with a rifle. The flocking was still intact. The durability of a double flocked decoy is stronger than paint. The issue I have with...

Thanks, these were on order for over three years now. Still four more pairs to go on that one order, I think there might have been some concern that I wasn't going to finish before I couldn't finish, but so far so good. I can't believe that I ever had the idea i could retire.

Part of the trouble I suppose is having to mix everything from a few basic rustoleum colors. When I paint a black duck, it do some of the feathering with what I'd call a rusty buff and then paint right down the middle with black to blow it out and make it darker, kind of gives it a 3D look...

I let Caleb make the decisions on the paint schedules for our regular decoys, I don't give him a lot of input. I'd rather he develops at his own pace. I do nudge him a bit on his black ducks, I just feel like he over does the feathering. I like a much less defined black duck with hints of...

This is a head that Caleb painted. Typically he feathers the bodies far more than necessary with an airbrush, but there is a level of expectation from customers that they see that kind of detail in our work. We use black ducks decoys instead of mallard hens even here in Idaho, almost no...

I really like the color combo on the heads, I'm going to try that out.