Old fashioned working decoys were often made from a pine board salvaged from an apple box. Lead was melted over an old wood stove in a tin can, and their metal fins were often tweeked to swim.
Shown here are decoys made from a dense Ponderas pine. It was originally purchased in high mountain Montana when I lived there, and rediscovered recently while cleaning out the corners of my wood shed.
The old timers used a little red paint to make their decoys look like a wounded fish. Or maybe the red was the only color they had left after painting the barn!
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| Classic working decoys in three styles by McEvers: Forktail, The Two Fourteen Special, and the Baker. |
