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There's not that many traditional full-time decoy makers around, you know, I don't know

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for sure how many, but I'm just guessing what I read in that, in the whole United States

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right now, it's probably less than a hundred that are doing it like I'm doing it.

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Today it's very, very few people use a hatchet anymore, it's just one of those things.

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My style of decoy is what they call the lower Chesapeake style, which is a wide, flat-bottomed

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decoy with a keel.

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It's the most stable decoy there is, where it won't flop around in the water real bad.

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Decoy making is considered one of the few original North American folk arts, because

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when the settlers came over from Europe and settled over here in the 1600s, 1700s, most

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everything they brought with them, like weaving, pottery making, woodwork, whatever, but decoys

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were only made, the Americans, Indians, North American Indians were the ones that were using

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decoys, and when the settlers got here, they showed the settlers how to use these decoys,

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how to make them and use them.

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I thought, you know, after six, eight months, I'd be tired of this and I'd have to go back

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to work, but I found out the more I do it, the better I like it.

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I never got burnt out, that's the thing.

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Never got wore out doing it, I really enjoyed doing it.