Swan decoy floaters?

[Tom Watson]

Worked! Thanks for the help!

As for the swans: I attached the neck to the wooden "spine" using a mortise and tenon type spline. It occurs to me that if one wanted to make the head and neck detachable for transport, as some have mentioned, it would be easy to leave the lower part of the neck and the top of the spine exposed above the canvas and pin the neck spline to the exposed part of the spine piece with stainless or brass rod... remove the pins and the neck and head could slip off. You'd need to waterproof the joint with epoxy or similar so the two parts didn't swell up.

 

[Huntindave McCann]

Worked! Thanks for the help!

Tom,
Thanks for the drawings. I am not a "seamstress" (ask Chuck ) therefore me making a canvass version is probably off the table. I'm undecided between a couple plastic swans or possibly a "Y" board silhouette.

 

[Carl]

Appears to have worked

 

[Brad F]

Really nice.

Much more "wildlife art" type decoy than mine. My wood working skills are less than my mechanical skills (which aren't that much either) but my attempts at removable head/neck are done by using Al tubing that is a slip fit between sizes...actually designed for collapsible radio antenna systems. Works but adds weight.

 

[Kenneth Yacavone]

Crossing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge one November as I got to the low end of the bridge were two Swans surrounded by three or four Widgeons who were stealing the plants the Swans were pulling up>
I thought good rig!