Fox & Geese game board

[RUssL.]

This is from the Rick Butz book on woodcarving.
The wood is basswood.
Bullseye sealer & a couple coats of Johnson's paste wax.
I had some serious pencil marking issues on the blank that required I do some heavy sanding, thus losing the crispness of my chip carved edges...
Live, learn and go lighter on pencil marking the blank next time.

Still sanding the pegs.



Russ

[Guest]

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Still nice work, Russ! Do you have jig for drilling or was all that done by measure and mark?

Al

[RUssL.]

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Thank you.
I used a drill press (the only power tool in my shop!) and marks from the overlaid pattern. Actually, I used a clear adhesive sheet of overlay that had the pattern photocopied on it, and that was what had to be sanded off.

I'm sure that this type of transfer can be useful but I don't think that I would use it again for chip carving. Tiny pieces of the adhesive-backed sheet or the adhesive itself remain on all the positive spaces of the blank and are not cleanly removable with solvent and/or sanding.

Russ

[kitaye]

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Lovely work regardless of the trouble with the sanding. How would you do it again if not the adhesive overlay?

[markken5889]

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what a beautiful piece, Russ. Very impressive!

Mark

[RUssL.]

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Thank you.

Rather than the adhesive overlay I think that I would use graphite paper, or make a cutout template ala Mark Y's recent post, or simply measure and do the layout right on the wood myself with a compass & rule, which I am getting better at.

...probably a combination of all three, now that I stop and think about it.


Russ

[catbird]

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Russ, really a nice piece. Looks like it took hours upon hours of work. Really nice design.

[RUssL.]

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Catbird,

Thank you.
I guess it did take a few hours.
But when you do it twenty minutes here, thirty minutes there, it doesn't really seem to take much time at all...

...and it certainly didn't seem like "work"! :-)

Russ

[Ron T]

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Hi Russ,

That's a great board. I can't imagine the patience it took to get all the detail and precision.

Very nice job.

[RUssL.]

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Thank you, Ron.

Russ

[Joy]

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Beautiful work!

[Mottles]

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Beautiful work! My hubby has made many of these games for family and friends. His aren't as detailed as yours of course. He makes all of his out of oak and they are round.
Kathy

[RUssL.]

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Thank you Joy & Kathy.
I like the idea of maybe doing the next one round. Thanks for the idea.

Russ

[gene-messer]

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That is beautiful Russ .. the chip carving is excellent ..

Gene

[santagibbs]

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Very nice work Russ... What a lovely game board. It's truly something to be proud of.. Charlotte