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it's a western grebe, I think the clark's grebe has white surrounding the eye. It was not a confidence decoy like a heron might be, but a food source. Wigeons don't wear that mask for nothing, they are bandits and are notorious for feeding on food other fowl have brought up from deep water...

sometimes you've got to think outside the box.

The first redhead is flocked and ready for airbrush, although it would hunt just fine like it is. I always paint the bills by hand with full strength rustoleum in gloss the appropriate color, in this instance it will be a slate blue to start and then airbrush, that will make the paint on the...

I'm probably looking at getting new waders in the next year or so. I bought some breathable waist high waders 600 insulation in the boot foot from Cabelas where my wife was working back in 2012. I had neoprene before these breathable waist high waders I have now. Once I got the breathables...

green heads on our mallard drakes certainly isn't wrong, but getting the black black is hard to do with paint, that's why I start with black flocking. When you look through photos of mallards, there can be a hint of green all the way to a strong bright green highlight depending on the light...

I'm assuming this is/was green rayon flocking. Rayon will fade and is not made for outdoor use. I don't flock my mallard drake heads green. I'll airbrush the green over the black flocking. One of the things I try to do in flocking is do it as if I'm not going to airbrush it. when you...

mighty fine looking blue wings are you seeing spots in your sleep.

I've been making some redheads lately and tried out a flocking color from flocking unlimited specifically made for redheads and it's spot on in my opinion. It's just red rustoleum flocked with the redhead flocking. in the past I used feather brown over leather brown rustoleum and just...

the best option for water without current is a flat bottom or reasonably flat keel. My regular keels are about 3/4" thick, 2.5 inches wide by 6 or 7 inches long made from composite decking from Home Depot. They won't self right a decoy, but they don't turn over either. I place my decoys...

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.