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I quickly figured out what was bothering me about the head. I missed a step on Steve Sanford’s tutorial and finished the cheek.

Added a lady to my longtail rig today. I might put a little more fading of the brown on the head but want to let it rest a bit first.

Yeah I’ll keep my pictures to myself after seeing these!!!!

Don Mintz usually starts this thread, but I wanted to show off Sundays effort. My son’s Eagle Scout project was to build benches for the local air history museum. They are 6’ long and weigh over 100 pounds each because of them being made with pressure treated lumber. It was a long day but...

The three in process. I will strip them to bare wood, seal and repaint. First question- any one have tips on how to rebuild broken bills?

My father and grandfather lived on Chautauqua lake and hunted it routinely in their Alumacraft ducker. They made their own decoys out of a chopped up telephone pole. And I have quite a few of them on display. But several of them did not pass the test of time. There were about half a dozen...

I saw a meat eater clip where the cooked a red breasted merganser and the said it was good. I intentionally won’t shoot them because I have been reluctant to eat them. I have a very acute sense of smell and can’t even hold them in my hand let alone skin one. It is actually a curse. Though...

I started maybe ten years ago after attending the ODCCA show with my late friend Jon Yenulonis. At the time I was doing a fair amount of duck hunting and was moving more towards the overall experience. Duck hunting has been in my family for several generations and my dad and grandfather made...

I ran out of decoys to paint today so I started another cork ringer in the woodshop with some numb fingers. Of course cork is not quite as easy to handle as pink foam. What does everyone else use to carve cork? I used my rasp, foredome, and sandpaper. This is only my second cork decoy (no...

March 21st in Ohio. Ohio decoy carvers and collector association. Big show, lots of great collectors. Anyone else going? If so let’s meet up for a drink!