Youth season 2025

[bearpaw]

Lota of great photos, congrats to all.

[Slamadoo]

Thank you for the kind offer Sundance, but we ended up just driving home today. It was a fun weekend.

[Sundance]

Finally pulled one of my son’s birds out of the freezer to try my hand at feather art. Big learning curve, fan got away from me, about 4 hours total. I’ll try it again after my neck stops killing me 😂

[elkrack]

That is awesome! Definitely gonna try that one!

[Dan-o]

That looks great, Sundance.   

[Karl Blanchard]

Flip job

[Karl Blanchard]

Finally pulled one of my son’s birds out of the freezer to try my hand at feather art. Big learning curve, fan got away from me, about 4 hours total. I’ll try it again after my neck stops killing me 😂

you should definitely do a how to thread on this. I'd love to do one.

[Sundance]

Finally pulled one of my son’s birds out of the freezer to try my hand at feather art. Big learning curve, fan got away from me, about 4 hours total. I’ll try it again after my neck stops killing me 😂

you should definitely do a how to thread on this. I'd love to do one.

Thanks for the flip Karl, I haven't been able to figure out how to get pics to post correctly from my phone 

I'll do a post hopefully after this weekend, still learning myself but I watched a lot of videos before trying. Big thing I learned is to use an easel, my neck is shot from standing over this for hours on end. I also ran out of feathers (plus I was tired) when I decided to use the wing in the right lower corner. At first I was just pulling/cutting feathers and making a pile, but quickly I learned you need to make an order to things to keep the right size/color pattern. I'd also use a plastic shield to prevent overspray on the feather that have already been laid, the spray glue is supposed to be clear but definitely started to pile up. Big feathers need to be stapled since the glue wasn't enough, I used a 1/2" sanded board and would possibly go to 3/4" to better hold staples. Paint the board black so nothing shows through in light areas, and do a layout for the fan with marks for placement so the fan shape doesn't run away on you (which mine did). I went 4 hours straight through, and by the end this is probably why the fan got sloppy. Next time I'll go in stages to stay fresh and keep the quality higher.

[Karl Blanchard]

Well imo the effort was worth it because that's the coolest fan mount I've ever seen