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White cedar, which is the wood you were using, usually air dries, even 3" thick, in a year or so to a low enough moisture content for decoy carving. The inner part of the cedar, even when first cut has little moisture as compared to basswood, pine, etc. I know that the cedar you got was cut...

glad the black stuff works. Given what I can find locally, I may be using this option for one or both of the baseplates.

I agree with the other advice. Cut the original blank to avoid as many checks as possible, rough it out, and then if there are checks, open them up with a grinder or handsaw, then epoxy the crack and pound a cedar shim (precut to have grain similar and running in the same direction) into place...

thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately my fleet farm does not have a complete supply of marine stuff. As an example, they have no front nav lights to fit the plug in mount, but have the plug in mount, and they ahve the white light on a mast, but no base to fit it. The manager of that...

I want to put the plug in style running/navigation lights on my duck boat for this fall, the type where I install a base that is wired into my battery, and just plug in a white running light on the rear and red/green light on the front. I don't care if the masts for the lights are chromed, but...

I agree with the post suggesting having the rivets welded, assuming the welder is experienced in old aluminum. This sounds like the best solution I have read. However, here is another solution I used on a Lake Michigan salmon trolling boat. I had little money and needed to fix leaking...

Your daughter, you, and your family will be in my prayers and meditations.

At work a week ago, I saw some pallets that had 4" thick spacer blocks made of densely compressed and glued wood fibers (like the 5/8" thick oriented strand board, OSB, we are used to seeing now used in place of plywood as sheathing). The wood fibers used in these blocks seemed smaller and more...

Thanks on the info on the paper mache decoys. I personally thought he could get $5 to $10 apiece for mallards in good shape. $10 or more apiece for ones that are unused and/or odd ball rare species. You are the only one who has addressed that part of the problem/rig. No one seems to...

No guilt trip here, Steve. You are very correct in what you say. I agree that it may be a good idea for him to keep the Herter's, and if he doesn't, there will be a day when he will wish he had. They aren't that easy to come by. Most of them need no paint. They are in that good a shape...

thanks for the information.

thanks for the suggestion. I have used gorilla glue before on other projects, including decoys. Two questions: 1. What/how are you clamping it up? Just putting weight on top of it (like concrete blocks)? 2. Any problems with sanding the gorilla glue line, i.e., is it a lot harder than...

An aspiring young duck hunter (age 13, son of a friend) bought a bunch of decoys of various makes and vintages at garage sale/auction. Among them were 16 to 18 Herter's Magnum (approx. 15" body length) mallards and black ducks. Some are in excellent to almost unused shape, some have been used...

I want to glue up high density styrofoam (2" like they lay down underneath poured concrete slabs) to make 4" and/or 6" thick decoy blanks. I plan to use them in teach youth carvers to carve their first decoy. What glues can I use to glue the styrofoam? I want to keep the cost down, so I...

Great idea and great design. Making one may have to wait until next year, but I can see the profit in having a small boat at the pothole or pond, and the boat easily carry my decoys, gun and shells. thanks. I may get womething to get by this year, but something like this will definitely go...

I am looking for a decoy hauling cart to get my gear and 3 to 4 dozen decoys into some ponds and marshes, that are a half to one mile hike, but which have a trail to them. I have looked at the deer hauling carts on the Cabelas website, and they would be fine, but when I read the comments of...

Unlike a lot of the carvers, I set the eyes in kids modeling clay, then use a two part epoxy paste to form the outer eyelid and ring around the eye and set the eye firmly in the head. When I do that, I form the eye lid and smooth the joint of the putty to the wood by using a brush and lacquer...

Kudos to you for this. I applaud your choice of bird, as a drake can can be done simply, but still come off great. I am hoping to recruit some youngsters to compete, as I ahve a dream of teaching youngsters as youg as 10 how to carve and paint decoys. For the younger carvers I will be...

I think 3/8" is plenty thin, if you are going to actually use them. even 1/2" is fine if you take pains to establish 1/2" thickness all the way around. What some carvers do is hollow easy to access areas thin, and leave harder to hollow areas solid. This can really hurt the ride qualities of...

I believe it is a hen pintail paint job, and the elongated tail kind of indicates it may have been carved as a hen pintail originally. Yeah it looks like that Mitchell/Joiner/Jobes/Chesapeake school of carving and paint. Who? You need someone who is more knowledgeable on Chesapeake Bay decoys...