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Since I had the head done I decided to keep going on my first cork/wood decoy. It's difficult right now without the full use of my right arm, but I'm doing what I can without hurting myself. Since I can't lift or pull with the right arm I can't use the draw knife. I can see where that would lessen the body shaping time dramatically. Oh well, just had to take my time with the Foredom. Obviously have a ways to go yet, but here's where I'm at right now. No bottom board on this one, but I think I'll drill a couple holes from the back of the tail into the body and glue in 7/16" dowels. I'll do a bottom board on the next one. Fixed head position. To put the head on I inserted two 7/16" dowels in the bottom of the head and glued them into holes in the body. I also applied 5 minute epoxie to the bottom of the head and clamped it. After everything was dry, I wrapped it all in with Apoxie Sculpt and feathered it in. Haven't done the finish sanding yet.

This would be a lot easier, and go a lot faster, with two good arms. LOL!

Impressive even if you had both arms.

Meanwhile, I've spent years trying to work up the nerve to repaint some specks. I remain in awe of those of you who tackle making decoys from scratch.

Looking good Gene. You're gonna like the way it rides with the tail carved in that way.

Gettin' close to being done. Still a ways to go with my one armed self.

Damn! That is your first?! It looks great! Amazing work, can't wait to see your second bird after seeing how good this one looks.

Tiler_J wrote:Damn! That is your first?! It looks great! Amazing work, can't wait to see your second bird after seeing how good this one looks.

That's the first cork body/wood head bird. I've been working with foam before this.

Gene,
Which do you prefer, the bits of cork to sweep up or the static charged foam beads you try to sweep up?

Foam is cheaper, but I hate the static charged foam beads.

By the way, beautiful job there, you excell at everything.

R. C.

Mean Gene wrote:Gettin' close to being done. Still a ways to go with my one armed self.

Did you cover that bird with all that fuzzy mess!?? Looking good man.

That ringer looks life like. GREAT JOB

Gorgeous!