Next fish in Aspen

[Nebraska]

Started another fish in aspen.

[woodburner807]

Looking like another nice one, Ed. Certainly, quality work and you sure are giving aspen a fine name.

[Mike WNC]

Ed, I enjoy watching your WIP's come together. I'll be staying tuned in. Looks like some nice wood grain in this piece!

[Nebraska]

Ed, I enjoy watching your WIP's come together. I'll be staying tuned in. Looks like some nice wood grain in this piece!

Mike,

I will try to provide some semi instructive photos this time.

[Mike WNC]

Mike,

I will try to provide some semi instructive photos this time.

Excellent. And I'll bombard you with questions!
So how do you rough out your carving, power tools, rasps?

Mike

[Nebraska]

Excellent. And I'll bombard you with questions!
So how do you rough out your carving, power tools, rasps?

Mike

With a block of wood I draw an over head and side view on the block and cut out on the bandsaw. I use painter’s tape to reattach the sawed off bits so it can be square when cutting form the other perspective. (Hope that made sense) I leave it thick in the area of the tail fin so I can glue to a piece I use to attach to the vice.


Buy the way the I made the homemade vise for one of our teenage carvers who decide he didn’t want it If your interested I could mail it to you.

[Mike WNC]

Makes perfect sense. I don't have a bandsaw but I do have a jigsaw and some longish blades. I think I can manage a rough cutout.

It would be great if you wanted to pass on the homemade vise to me. I would certainly put it to use and I'd be happy to reimburse you for postage/shipping. I'll PM you my address.

Mike

[NoDNA]

Makes perfect sense. I don't have a bandsaw but I do have a jigsaw and some longish blades. I think I can manage a rough cutout.

It would be great if you wanted to pass on the homemade vise to me. I would certainly put it to use and I'd be happy to reimburse you for postage/shipping. I'll PM you my address.

Mike

Darn Mike WNC. If you lived close,, I have a smaller band saw.. very inexpensive to you, I just got a bigger one. from a 4.5" jaw/9" to a 5.75" jaw /14".

I am in Oregon

[Nebraska]

With my cutout attached to the vice it’s time for some serious pencil work. The spinal curve is pretty much established by the lines you choose when doing your cutout so reestablish it with your pencil on the top and bottom. Using the transparency draw in the profile. If you intend your trout to have an arched back tilt it the nose up or down slightly and mark wood from dorsal fin to the nose then tilt similarly and mark from dorsal fine to tail. I usually put in a gill line (1/4” behind the diagram on 10” fish) just to remind me where the head is. I draw an additional line parallel to the top line about 1/3 of the way down, this will be the wide point of the body now begin rounding between the top center line and the wide body point and similarly from the center of the bottom. Look at lots of fish picture while doing this.
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[Mike WNC]

Darn Mike WNC. If you lived close,, I have a smaller band saw.. very inexpensive to you, I just got a bigger one. from a 4.5" jaw/9" to a 5.75" jaw /14".

I am in Oregon

Thanks for thinking of me Chuck. Too many miles between us to make it worthwhile. I moved to NC from OR. I lived out near Glide, east of Roseburg.
Which bandsaw did you upgrade to?

Mike

[Mike WNC]

Looking real good Ed. Will you be using your new vise on this one?

[Nebraska]

Looking real good Ed. Will you be using your new vise on this one?

No the little one. I made this for so thing to do while in Baton Rouge this winter but then ended up stating on them at the library going to end up with 5 or 6 of them. Won’t use new vice until we get back and start on next fisherman. When you do the cutout remember to save cuttings to make fins.

[Mike WNC]

Save the cutoffs... got it! I still haven't ordered any wood, I think I'll do that right now.
Mike

[Nebraska]

Once the body is shaped I start adding and refining details. Most of the work on the head is started with a 15/3 V tool.

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[Nebraska]

Dorsal fin

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clamp in place mark cutout
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cutout glue slot
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anal fin is the same process as dorsal fin. None of the fins get glue until the head and tail fin are finished.