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I'm doing some detail painting on the heads of some of these carved synthetic tupelo decoys my son painted for me over the past weekend.

hollow wood urn.

A few more completed this morning, carved synthetic tupelo, double flocked and ready to hunt. Brown flocking over black rustoleum oil based enamel.

A drake bufflehead was the first diver I ever shot. Our view of waterfowl hunting when I was a kid was limited to puddlers and primarily mallards. When I shot my drake bufflehead, we weren't sure what it was other than a duck, dad called it a baldpate, we had never seen a wigeon at that point...

Painting with an airbrush is a wonderful tool, but at the same time it can be frustrating to master. I learn something new every time I pick it up and I have in excess of 40,000 hours behind the button in the past 45 years. I need to come up with a youtube account so I can post videos...

I've never had one in hand, can't find any good picture reference hens online that I trust and they all vary widely. Some photos labelled as hen mottled show a greenish bill like a hen black, some are orange like a hen mallard. I see so many references on line that are obviously mislabeled...

When did you start carving? My aunt died last weekend and my cousins have been sending me pictures of all the stuff that I had given my aunt and uncle over the years to see if I wanted any of it. There were some carvings that peaked my interest, a couple I didn't remember at all, but my name...

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...

I've been working feverishly trying to get some decoys in our own bag now that the ducks are here in force. I did take the time to finish this pair this morning. They have been migrating around the shop for several weeks. I'm not sure about this year since things seem to be so late, but we...

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...

Lots of stuff in the works in the shop these days. Weather is great and there are no ducks here yet, a good time to get some stuff finished up. I've got a pintail/mallard in a new pose, I'm well over 50 poses now from one pattern, I'm calling this one the "sleepy scratcher". It's kind of like...

I'm in the middle of a bunch of design work right now which at this stage is miles and miles of lines a 1/2 inch at a time. The wigeon butt decoy will not be feathered initially, at least until I make a mold of it for myself. Feather groups and a little definition is all that is necessary for...

I got to thinking there was enough interest in flocking that it might be helpful to have a dedicated conversation for questions and insights. While I was flocking this morning, which is nearly an everyday thing, I decided to do a little color combining of paint and flocking in an effort to...

Here are a few foamers, double flocked and airbrushed. All white parts are hand painted. I do all the carving and customization and Caleb does the basic painting while on these I did some enhancements as far as head flecking and some other detailing.

I got this bunch of pintails to Caleb at noon yesterday. This is what he had by 3 pm today. He's been working on a paint schedule for pintail hens, I think this will work.

my son and I are on a mission, working on decoys everyday. He does all the painting, I do all the customization, design, and flocking.

I've got my son helping me paint decoys now.

I just finished up this semi-storm wigeon and got it on the pond this morning. I saw a photo of this pose and just had to try it. We will call it a tail preener.

The beaded foam decoys my dad and I were making back in the late 60's look nothing like what I'm doing these days. The need of more durable materials, better processes and a decoy that was effective at bringing ducks in close. Where we are at now and where we will be by this time next year...

As I've mentioned before I'm working on a decoy spread for my son. I finished up this pair of barrows yesterday. I have 98 decoys left to make to achieve my goal. He will have 24 species if God grants me the time to get it all done. I'm pretty obsessive, so I think it's a possibility. These...