As some of you may experience, I could be carving Mount Rushmore out of Limburger cheese and she’d be oblivious as to ‘what’s on the bench’.
I was nearing completion when the wife walked by and noticed the carving.
She loved it! She didn’t want me to paint it so the detail of the piece would not be lost (thanks for the vote of confidence…).
She was figuring out where ‘we’ would put it on the mantel when I informed her it was for my brother.
The look on her face had me back tracking and gifting it to her.
I always told her I’d gift my pieces until I reach a higher level of experience before I start carving for her.
Apparently I’m there…
I’ve since put glasses on the dude, put eyelets and ran line on the fishing pole, permanently affixed the fish string to the fist instead of the ‘wrap around’ you see her and I still need to tie and affix a fly to the fishing line and one or two for the hat.
Special thanks to Lynn Doughty of Out West Woodcarving for his tutorials. I used the video's guidance for the hat and how to make it "fit", as well as carving the head separately.
What I liked about that was it gave me the opportunity to turn the head just a touch before glueing and it made all the difference in the world.
Off to the shop to carve this dude’s clone for my brother….
Thanks for looking and any and all comments, critiques welcomed.
Have a great day all!
3 comments:
Looks good to me
Bob... that is a real up grade from your earlier pice.. not counting the FLAT PLANE as that looks good to me.. I try at times to do the flat plane but always over carve some part and wind up have to carve the rest to match..
Will Hayden
Thanks Will. I really like how this one turned out. I just wish the wife would have wanted it painted. She wanted it left natural and I'm wondering how it would have looked painted.
I also wish I had more time to carve. 5 young kids and a full time 3rd shift job is keeping me busy as well.
I do manage to get some carving time in each day though.
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