Every Carver's First project Should Be A Walking Stick Or A Cane.

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I'm not a roughout sort of guy. I tried them when I first started carving but decided that my budget wouldn't support my carving habit so I had to go to using ready patterns or making a pattern of what I wanted to carve myself. To get to the point. I'll Google a figure of what I want to carve and download...

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Looks like "Old Stonewall" himself!...

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I'm surprised that we don't hear of more people laundering their smart phones! If we didn't have but one phone between both my wife and I, I'm sure that I'd leave my phone in the pockets of my cargo pants at least once a week!

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Brett.....Rich Smithson, a master knife maker, from Helvi knives just posted a video on stropping on the Helvi YouTube Channel. I've been carving for over 25-years and I even picked up on a couple of tips. Rich doesn't try to get technical and he explains how, why and when in layman's terms. I sincerely...

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Herb.... I think that's an excellent likeness of "Beldar!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8CpaejCk8

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Rolds....I fully agree with you my friend. I've yet to meet a woodspirit that I didn't like....

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"You can bet your bippy I am!" Less than 10% of Americans served in Vietnam and that service wasn't really appreciated. When I walk up to a man or woman in uniform today and "thank them for their service," I want them to know that the appreciation comes from one who served and knows...

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Thank you. I've been woodburning (more to the literal sense than the artistic sense) since I was a kid in summer church camp. I still have a woodburning of a small bear that I made my mother back with I was 11 or 12. Most woodburners add all the shading and color in by artistically applying the burner...

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Outstanding work! Love the paint job!

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Thanks Randy! I've got three or four patterns and tutorials that I've saved from various websites over the years. My problem wasn't in finding directions so much as knowing what to do when them!...

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Sorry Guys! The thumbnail indication is there but the photo's never showed up. When I originally posted everything was "hunky-dory!"



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Many years ago when my Dad was alive he made a cane in the shape of a large wood hand saw. I never gave it a thought that I may someday need one but as it turned out one of the first real carving projects that I took on was to make a woodspirit walking stick for my wife and I for hiking. Then as I got...

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Since that's a mighty fine one of a kind carving I'd have to say that the only thing rarer in this world than the carving is probably the newspaper he's carrying!

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What "Dileon" said!

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Put an olive green t-shirt on him and he'd look just like my brother. And I don't believe that there's a Tim Horton's, Dunkin Donut's, Starbucks, or Mickey D's in North American where he hasn't stopped for a cup of "joe!"

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Nice work! Looks great in natural wood.

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Outstanding reply. I didn't see that one coming!
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I enjoy the Doug Outside videos and use them as company when I'm carving in my den. I share his love of the outdoors and now that I'm unable to get up to my cabin anymore I can still enjoy the woods through his peaceful jaunts vicariously. I've downloaded most of his carving video's for future reference....

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I use both Flexcut gold and Helvi's white stropping compound for hand stropping and for my power honer/stropping set-up in the shed I use Smoky Mountain Woodcarver's green. Since SMWC is no longer in business you might try contacting Gregg Dorrance. He may carry the green compound since he took over...

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Another Chinese product? Except for the blade configuration it looks just like the pocket PUMA that I've had for the past 40-years.