Nice job. I've restle coated quite a few decoys over the years. It adds a nice protective coating to a foamer and is a lot easier to do than burlapping. Also, keeps them on the light side which is a plus.

 

what is that restle ? would you recomend it over burlap im doing my first decoys and have not done either process yet. Is one process going to hodl up better for working decoys?
Thanks

 

benelliboy, the restle coat is titebond II woodglue painted over the foam with hardwood sawdust sprinkled over it. This process is done 2-3 times then primed/sealed with Kilz2. I have done both restle and burlap/mastic. The burlap mastic is messy and takes a while, the restle is quick and less messy. As far as durability goes, the mastic and burlap hold up well, I have never hunted the restle coat yet. I believe restle coat is what the old timers used to do to their decoys.

 

You can also use exterior paint, then coat in saw dust. Let it dry and repeat. Very quick and easy.

 

Actually restle coating is with corn cod dust they got from the anderson mill in maumee ohio and the used a medium grit and fine grit of it they used a cut off paint brush to pound it in there.and used somthing other then glue to stick it too and they used high dollar automotive paint to paint their decoys just a history lesson for you and by the way nice coys

 

Actually restle coating is with corn con dust they got from the anderson mill in maimed ohio and the used a medium grit and fine grit of it they used a cut off paint brush to pound it in there.and used somthing other then glue to stick it too and they used high dollar automotive paint to paint their dries just a history lesson for you and by the way nice coys

Its actually called Trestle coating...

 

Actually restle coating is with corn con dust they got from the anderson mill in maimed ohio and the used a medium grit and fine grit of it they used a cut off paint brush to pound it in there.and used somthing other then glue to stick it too and they used high dollar automotive paint to paint their dries just a history lesson for you and by the way nice coys

Its actually called Trestle coating...

Dang Hank....pulled out a little recent decoy history. Only seen one other guy actually use the the correct word for the coating prior to this post. Makes 2 now.

 

YAHOO!!! What do I win!?!?! :beer: :beer:

 

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Some corn cob grit.

As long as we are in the process of highjacking Benny8's thread I do have a serious question to you guys that use this stuff.

Trestle coating seems to be popular and I understand why. I simulate it myself on alot of my carved decoys primarily on heads to make them easier to pick up when hunting (yes I'm one of those guys that uses the heads as handles). I don't use sawdust or corn cob grit though....just textured paint. My feeling is as the paint wears down over time it enhances the textured look and softness of the heads. So here's my question. AS the paint wears on trestle coated birds does the grit..sawdust, corn cob, etc....start to come off or show through?

 

Yes it wears down and comes off over time since i learned somthing new that its called trestle coating.maybe i can learn more from this site.is it called trestle for tom restle or ?

 

Takem4391 it's one of those things that's just become "renamed" for lack of a better explanation through the years I guess. I don't think it takes alot of imagination to see that it's easy in conversation through years for people to confuse the word trestle with restle. Restle decoys with trestle coating.....the words are very similar. Not that difficult to see where it would become referred to as Restle coating. Doubt it would have happened the decoys were named Smith or Jones or the coating corn-a-cobia or whatever name you can think of.

I think the term Restle coating is so deeply entrenched at this point that the whole thing is a none issue except for the "purist" in that are into that sorta thing. It is an interesting bit of trivia though.

Zoom in on teh paragraph. Even Restle decoys called it "trestle coating". I really don't know why it's called trestle coating though. Read somewhere that it was used on train trestles for some reason....I have no idea.

http://www.restledecoys.com/restle_news ... cing_sheet

 

I've never been around any decoys surfaced in that manner, although I've done the coating of titebond and sawdust from my foredom over the top of a burlapped surface and it looked alright. It almost takes on a cork like appearance if you sand it after it dries. I've been mixing paint and sawdust for about 30 years on woodcarvings, never really attributed a name or style to it, just called it "adding sawdust to paint" technique. I use it a lot on decorative carvings for creating a textured dirt or snow type effect. The base on this quail carving is kilz2 mixed with sawdust from my foredom and then painted over a second time with just kilz after it dries.

I used the same process on the ground of this carving, it makes for a good surface to dry brush or airbrush on and gives a nice soft effect that would be great on decoys.

I would be a little concerned about using corn cob dust. You might want to store your decoys out of the way of mice in the offseason. I have heard from a few folks that they have had trouble with mice chewing on the decoys.

 

concern over mice and decoy's GOOD POINT also there is a wasp hornet bee whatever species that love do driil holes in wood and foam out of boredom ?? sorry had to say that ,they're looking for a place to lay an egg or deposit a larvea ,be careful where you store them in the off season