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That makes a lot of sense. All the growth would be mostly in the 4 months. My guess when you are cutting stuff out you have the fuel to keep the house and shop warm. We lived 19 years in our last house in Boise before moving out of the city, it had a little wood stove and a loft upstairs...

How does that white spruce carve?

There is certainly a learning curve to using an airbrush. I got my first airbrush at Sears in Fairbanks in 1981. I pulled it out of the box, I don't even remember what kind of paint I was using, kind of thinking model paint. I tried it for a couple of hours and gave up. I didn't pull it back...

I've been pretty fortunate to be able to make a living doing something I enjoy for nearly my entire adult life. I am slowing down, or at least thinking about slowing down. Thanks to the encouragement from William over the past year, he's kind of lit the fire again and we are doing all kinds...

SJ, that's what I keep telling William, he's still young. I started airbrushing at 22 years old with a single action Badger, I switched to a double action at 33 and painted full time for the next 14 years wholesaling fish head and tail salt and pepper shakers. That was over 20,000 hours by the...

I've been doing some color mixing after talking to the folks at Flocking Unlimited. I used bisque tan flocking and brown flocking to get a little orange into the brown paint and I am fairly pleased with the color I got for a base on the redhead hens. The flocking unlimited people suggested...

The paint is flowing good today. For any of you who use an airbrush you will know what I'm talking about. Yesterday was an hour cleaning my airbrush before I got it running good again, William knows how bad I am at keeping my airbrush clean, I paint several days a week and usually things go...

It's looking pretty snazzy. The blend from brown to grey on the chest is perfect, It's all about decoying birds. I just think about what triggers a variety of waterfowl species , usually that means contrast and field markings.

Here is a little paint pen tutorial. I've been talking a few guys through the use of paint pens privately lately. Let me say right up front I'm an expressionistic painter, especially when I'm painting hunting decoys which are nearly always flocked. I'm not interested in fine detail, but I am...

This is a decoy we produced in 2011. We molded, flocked and painted several hundred. I am really impressed with the flocking and how well it held up, at least until it was shot. I repaired 25 shot holes on this one decoy, re flocked it and repainted it. We know a lot more about airbrushing than...