Very nice! If your carving is only 3 inches tall, I’m guessing the hat is about 1 3/4” tall. The detail of painting in that hat is amazing. You’ve either got great eyes or your using some kind of high powered reading glasses! Nice carving, and painting!
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Great group of carvings. I was thinking your dog looked a lot like Snoopy! Can I ask how tall your "Tall" Santa is, and is he 1" x 1" ?
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Very nice, I wouldn't have thought of this. On one of my Santas I mixed some black in with the white and made a grey beard, It didn't work well. Your method looks much better, like a younger Santa, Santa's son maybe. Did Santa have a son?
Please don't take this wrong way but I noticed on your...
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Herb, all of these are great! I really like the burro.
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Coming along nicely Ed! The “precolor” (not sure what that is) is already bringing out the grain. Looking forward to seeing her with your finish applied.
Mike
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Hey Randy. I don’t have any experience with the Raizaire 530 dust collector but I wanted to bump this thread in hopes that someone missed it and might comment. My only experience with dust collection was in a much larger, shop sized system, not what us carvers need.
The website mentions they...
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Great info Ed. I may have to put another shelf in the shed for all these finishes I’m accumulating.
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Ed, your club sounds very cool. Active and engaging the community. You sent me a link a while back, a website, listing national carving clubs. I couldn’t find a Club close by but I sure appreciate the forum here, kinda like an online club. Is that you seated on the right, “The Tall Member?”...
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This is a great, fun, carving! The eyes, the expression, the hair and paint, the antlers, the wall mount. Just wonderful!
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Ed, Nice carvings. And these are both carved from the same type of wood?
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Thank you Randy! What a great holiday, so much to be thankful for, Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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Yes, she's coming along nicely. I think I'm now seeing how you're going to do her hair, very nice. Any chance I can get her phone number when you're done?
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"Learn the wood", excellent, and useful advice. Thankfully there's no "costly lessons" with my carving endeavors. Mike...
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My Redwood, if milled out, would most definitely had been of a grade used for fence and deck boards. And yet I took this "common" grade lumber and turned it into something both functional, my shelves, and something visually interesting, my carving.
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Thank you Ed. Your description of carving this redwood is spot on. Hard to push through the winter rings and then a big spoon out when I broke through. It is a beautiful wood and I'll eventually carve through my scraps. I've run miles of Redwood installing decking, siding, exposed beams and rafters...
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These are amazing! I've never seen this style of art before...Beautiful!
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Thanks for the comment on my carving Bill. I sent these slabs through my planer several times and then finished them with Satin Poly. There's six of these shelves around the cabin and one outside.
Mike
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Brian, There only appear to be 4-5 growth rings per inch. This tree must have had plenty of sun and water.
Thanks for the tip on the Tung Oil. I've got quite a few scraps of this Redwood I'll try it on the next carving.
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