What's on your WORK BENCH ? - May 2020

Steve Sanford said:
Young Man~
Spectacular! Surely on the way to a lively duck season....
All the best,
SJS
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I'm already foreseeing trigger pull issues. There's a little tab in the shape of a "Y" that screws down at the base of the Y and each tine of the Y is the spring that resets the trigger, or provides resistance to the trigger.....I dunno....
I have to get everything blued and reassembled and I've discovered a crack in the grip. It gets thin in there. I may pre-drill and then see if I can set a screw in there, it's a bad spot.
Hmmmm......I wish there was something I could coat it with to allow it to stay silver!
 
Thanks again for posting. From left to right--two red shovelers, a rosy billed pochard, and a bahams pintail, awaiting sealing and paint.
Each is inlaid with DNA, as my Foredom and i had an encounter with some reverse grain and took a toll on the end of my right thumb. As Fearless Fosdick would describe it:
"a mere flesh wound."
 
George,

Looking forward to seeing that bahama pintail finished up! Been playing with the idea of making one myself. Certainly a pretty duck.
 
Curt, I have been mucking about with various species of Argentine decoys since I fell in love with waterfowling down there. Years ago, a dear friend got a group of us going down there, and I have been making a little group of stool to take annually. Our hosts do not allow anyone but us the use of the corks, as a number of Europeans shoot everything, including decoys/
Over the years, I have repainted close to 150 on sale dekes that my friend dragged to the shop. We hit them with Krylon Fusion, then I made a rig consisting of Bahamas, yellow billed pintails, chiloes and white faced whistling ducks, which our host is now learning to repaint. All teal species so far are cork.
The Bahamas are really subtle. Only way they can tell each other apart, I think, is by the reddish area on the bill. Hens are lighter.
Other than pochards, cinnamons and red shovelers, all others apre pretty much the same, except for sublteties on bills or heads, as in the Chiloe.
Steve will post up the gang when I have painted them.
I do have a color schematic for the Bahama, so if you get the urge, contact me at
gwdecoys@Verizon.net. I will be more than happy to forward you a copy, ready to print. This time around, I am going to do some writing regarding the rosy bill, and perhaps, the red shoveler, also. I swear I did the shoveler one, but apparently, never copied to word. Fortunately, they have a similar base to their cousins, the bluewings. From there, things really get weird!!!
 
I don't think what I have at the moment is worthy of this thread but it's all I got.

One man's trash is another man's treasure. I may be the only guy in town that takes some stuff to the local yard waste site, and comes back home with more than he took there.


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This stack is a mix of Walnut, Soft Maple and Red Maple. It will need to sit and season for a few years before making a reapperance.
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I did just complete a modification to my dust collector. By building a riser and a extension for the base, I was able mount the garbage can "separator" directly onto the dust collector. Now everything is able to be moved around the shop as one single unit.




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Good morning, Dave~


Great find! I've always thought that best duck hunters were also highly skilled scroungers and re-purposers...


Question: What is "soft maple" ? Here in NY - at least taught to me by my logger/sawmill owner Father-in-Law - "soft maple" includes both Red Maple and Silver Maple - to distinguish them from "hard maple" - which is almost always Sugar Maple.


Here on the farm, we have lots of Sugars and Reds and even handfuls of Striped Maple (aka Moosewood) and Box Elder. (aka Ash-leaved Maple). Our only Silver was a nursery purchase.


All the best,


SJS

 
Steve

My understanding of the hard maple species and soft is the same as yours. Here in the South we mostly have soft maple. If you have a chunk of maple and the leaves are long gone hard maple is usually lighter in color than soft. A simple chemical test can reveal if it is hard or soft. Mix a couple tablespoons of iron sulfate (available at your garden center in bags) in a cup of water and dab on the sample. Hard maple will turn a greenish hue, while soft maple will turn bluish black.

Eric
 
Steve Sanford said:
Good morning, Dave~
Question: What is "soft maple" ? Here in NY - at least taught to me by my logger/sawmill owner Father-in-Law - "soft maple" includes both Red Maple and Silver Maple - to distinguish them from "hard maple" - which is almost always Sugar Maple.
SJS
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Eric Patterson said:
Steve
My understanding of the hard maple species and soft is the same as yours. Here in the South we mostly have soft maple.
Eric
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Steve and Eric,

Ditto the comments from both of you. Around here we have very few Sugar Maples (hard) with everything else being "soft" Maple. Within that soft Maple category, If I can identify exactly which species, Box Elder, Red Maple, etc, I will label as such, otherwise I just label it soft Maple. In this case, I had leaves and branches along with the trunk pieces to aid in identification. I'll have to remember to pick up some iron sulfate[font=Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif].[/font]
 
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