Recent content by Pat Bearden

Im in Mount Pleasant. One county north of Charlotte

nice work. can you use this same process on the cork that is now currently available?

I seal all my decoys with US composites but I use the 1:1 mixture. Have never had a problem. However another carver I know has been using the 3:1 mix and has yet to get a good finish. He has even went so far as to weight each component to ensure a correct mix. Still gets the cloudy look and...

I was there all weekend and had several decoys in the competition. You have pics of some of them. The entries this year were way down. They raised the entry fees(costme $135) and lowered the prize money. So unless you win best of show you cant break even. Show has really gone down hill in the...

I think thats gonna be way more work than what it would be worth. I know some people making fishing corks out of them. Somewhat on the subject here are some wine bottle stoppers that i made. Carved heads ontop of stainless

Killed half of what we saw yesterday. Which was 2. A black and a gadwall :(. I think i may have alot of gear for sale at the end of this season

i bet i know what creek this happened in :)

What bus did they take

Thanks you to both captains. Unfortunately we dont get many black ducks here unless extreme cold weather north of us. So carving a rig wont do me much good. I do like to throw out 2 or 3 just for the dark silhoutte on the water, shows up well

Black duck gunner

oh ok i misunderstood and thought you were totally recoating the whole bird. I have heard of fiberglass type stuff being used but no experience with it. HOw big are the areas needing touch up? If it were me i would just go ahead and get small amount of mastic/burlap and try to repair close to...

When i was making foamers a few years ago it didnt take me long to find an alternative method to burlap. I started using titebond 3 and fine sawdust (restle coat). Gives decoy a hard shell and excellent paint bonding. You can put it right over the burlap in as many or as few coats as you see...

Here is a cork lesser scaup i just finished up A cottonwood ruddy

Hollow white pine and acrylic gunner

thanks guys