SpiritWolfe's first carving

[Tom-H]

A great example of a cleanly carved and cleanly finished wood carving....

[Keoma]

lovelylovelylovely!

[Spiritwolfe]

That rose pin is real nice .Spirtwolfe the picture you have above is that Basswood , I never saw any because they don't have anything like this in Louisiana .Also on a Basswood tree how much of the tree is good for carving .Here we have Tupelo but the best part of the tree is only about the bottom 4 or 5 feet. The rest of the tree is too hard to carve .

Sorry I missed this. Yes that's basswood. That's not on our property but on a public access pathway and I only just discovered it this year so couldn't honestly answer your question. We have maple, bich, Apple, cherry, ash, cedar, elm, boxwood, you name it but no base wood on our property so I found a fallen tree and took a chunk. Unfortunately I don't use much basswood at all because most things I make require dense hardwood.
The trees that were harvested looked really good though and I doubt they'd have taken them down if they were only half good but don't know for sure.
Thanks for the compliment.

[Spiritwolfe]

Thank you Tom and Keoma