What's on your Work Bench ? JULY 2018

Steve Sanford

Steve Sanford

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All~


Lots of NDR projects of late - but I will be focusing on duckboats and decoys for the next few months. It'll be in the high 90s all week - so a good time to hunker down in my shop with the AC keeping things cool and dry.



This Cinnamon Teal gunner is headed to Utah.


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It is hollow Basswood.



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I used Mahogany for the keel. I did not add any lead to/in the keel because I expect this decoy to campaign in very sheltered waters.


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I sealed with flat oils (mostly Rustoleum) and finished with my usual flat latex house paints (Behr from Home Depot).


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All the best,


SJS



 
Love that Cinnamon Teal; a beautiful carving and painting job, as usual. That's a duck I've never done but I'm putting it on the "do soon" list. I've busy working on a 14 foot sneak boat and a small trailer for it that was free but needs some repair. I have not even been fishing yet, but will be going tmr for fluke and sea bass and maybe a striper or blue if they swim by!
 
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Cut-in a second Tilt/Trim switch mounted inside the cockpit at the helm station control panel so I don't have to turn my back on my course and reach back to the port side of the engine housing to operate the external switch (1997 Honda 50hp). Significantly better way to operate in total darkness on the Great Lakes.

Painted the interior and shelves with Parkers dead grass brown/green, as well as using up the last of the Tuff-coat on the decoy compartments. While I had the StarBoard shelf railing strips off to paint the shelves I ran them through a quarter round router bit to take the sharp edges off them . Originally, TDB just took a sheet of StarBoard and ripped it into strips, clamped them together and then counter-sank the brass shelf screw holes in them, so they had some pretty sharp edges on them, particularly or wet hands interactions...
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You know how big a pain getting back to that on-motor unit was, particularly in the dark! I doubt if it made navigation easy on the Ohio either when you owned the boat. Several times I've lost my orientation to the horizon(no shoreline lights of any kind up here for much of the coast) and had to reference my Garmin unit.
 
Rick,
I wondered while following you why you were zig-zagging...ha. Good work on something you wanted to correct!

Louie
 
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After my foray into molding and casting of the Herters Coots, I was looking for a way to deploy them tight, without tangles. I considered a net rig, but decided that that might be bulking in a BBSB. Instead I decided to try decoy spreaders. A little internet searching and Youtube convinced me that while the commercial rigs were well thought out, and looked very professional, I had most of the materials already on hand.

Years ago, when I was a Scout leader, and found a bag full of odds and ends of tent poles. I brought that bag to every camp out, and had spares, and parts to fix most any field failure. I still had most of them left and decided to see what I might put together.



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I stripped the unions from the fiberglass poles and then riveted them together. I then re-enforced this union with galvanized wire.



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I threading shock-cord through the poles and tied off some long-line clips. A simple loop of decoy line on each decoy should make it easy to attach them for deployment.



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Above is version 1, I made some slight changes and made 2 more sets, and will redo this first one when the new shock-cord arrives later in the week.

At the end, I have a Coot mobile!



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