Sealing wooden decoys

John Fraser

John Fraser

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I'm doing the final puttying and sanding on my pine brant decoy. Soon I'll be ready to paint. I was wondering if anyone seals their wood decoys before painting them. If so, what do you use and why? In the past I've had good results just painting directly onto the wood with exterior latex. However I'm wondering if I should try something different.
 
John
I always seal my decoys with sanding sealer mixed with selulose thinners on a 50/50 mix, this I do, then lightly sand before painting with gesso.
Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber
Its all about Building that Bond.
 
Thanks Eddie. Sanding sealer is what I had heard of people using but I couldn't remember what it was called.

Is selulose thinner like turpentine?
 
John:
You don't mention if you were using oil or acrylics. I believe Oil paints are almost self sealing, soaking the decoy in boiled linseed oil helps create a barrier to the water. Oil paint over it. With acrylic paint most use waxless shellac, 2 thin coats, sand with 150 grit to provide a tooth for the paint. Personally, I use Jansens all purpose acrylic sealer. It's water based (may raise the grain) so you'll need to hit it with sandpaper a bit harder. I believe this is the best seal.

Good luck!
 
John celulose thinner is not the same thing as turpentine, its whats they use in the sprayguns to thin the paint down when they do Autobodys.
Take care and God Bless
Eddie and Amber
Its all about Building that Bond.
 
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