DECOY SHOPS

[Riley Dabling]

I am always interested in old decoy shops and the shops of others that waterfowl. Anyone want to share pictures of there shops or maybe of shops they have been to. I will get some pictures up of mine here soon. Thanks
Riley

 

[bob welsh]

mine looks like an episode of horders except for decoys everwhere. I like your avatar, who is the artist?

 

[Riley Dabling]

I am not quite sure who the artist is. Some on here might know. I will try to get pictures of my shop up today or tomorrow. Mine doesn't look much better as far as being clean.

 

[Chris Hutchins]

Renson? something like that...nice pix.

Hutch

 

[Steve Steffy]

Probably not exactly what you had in mind but here's my shop...not in decoy mode, but rather callmaking mode and my young apprentice Tyler spinning some wood and cleaning up afterward.

These are old pictures...this corner actually has another workbench with pegboard and carving tools in/on it now.

This is the other side...it has carving goodies all over the place now too.

I'll spare everybody the pictures of when my workshop transforms into a trappers shed in the fall. I actually have another area that I work on decoys now too. No pictures of that yet though. I need to get a bigger shop...

Steve

 

[Jon Yenulonis]

I'll try my best here...

Every year, usually somewhere between Christmas and New Year's, my family and I travel out to the East Coast to Chincoteague Island to eat, visit and do a little duck hunting.

We stay in an old house, previously owned by a former carver named Miles Hancock. Miles carved many a decoy in his day, and actually had a little cameo role in the movie "Misty of Chincoteague". Miles died in the late seventies.

A couple years ago, I struck up a conversation with the present day owner, and expreesed my interest in decoys and hunting, and all that goes with it. To my surprise, he gave me permission and acces to "the old carving shed".

Here is where it all happened.

A bench where I think a lot of decoys were given life colors.

An old decoy, carved in "the shed".

Jon

 

[Riley Dabling]

Steve and Jon, looking good. Love the duck above the door. Keep them coming guys.

 

[Vince Pagliaroli]

Jon

You are a Lucky Lucky man! Mr. Miles was a wonderful man & carver, according to Jimmy Bowden and other decoy carvers of that area . His Decoys tolled Ducks.
Lots of History in that shed. Keep the tradition Alive & Well and enjoy yourself..............

 

[Darin Clark]

Well here it is, which isn't much. As my daughter so eloquently put it "Dad, most guys have a man cave, you have a man dungeon." It's a little short on head room and I'm in a on going battle with the spiders, but it all I've got.

It may not look it, but I do clean up once in a while.

 

[Riley Dabling]

Nice looking shop Darin. Looks like a good space to create.