You ain’t nothing but a hound dog

[C-wade7]

Welcome to the forum. You are a great carver and quite the accomplished artist. Your hawks on you website are wonderfully done....

[C-wade7]

Great work, looks awesome!

[C-wade7]

I made this about 3 years. I watch some of Doug’s videos but haven’t seen the one where he did this, I got the idea from an old whittling book picture....

[C-wade7]

Very nice. That’s something I’ve been wanting to try myself....

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My wife doesn’t like him, said it makes her sad and she wants to feed him....

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Newest caricature animal carving. Gary Batte’s “Flea Bits” from his Crazy Critters book. Had to shrink it %17 to fit the wood I had. Watered down acrylic paint, basswood,clear enamel spray sealer....

[C-wade7]

Wanted to shout out a thanks to @Tbox61 for the tip on burnishing with antler. I carved a little face at work because it was slow today and cut the tip off an antler shed and tried it out. It worked great and I was able to define some or the details around the mouth and smooth the brows down. The wood...

[C-wade7]

Very nice, I like the accordion detail....

[C-wade7]

Welcome to the board ,
If you’re wondering about Donny47’s project he hasn’t been back on since 7 days after he posted, nearly 1 year ago....

[C-wade7]

Can you explain the burnishing process? Very nice carvings....

[C-wade7]

I too got a set of the paper wheels. I was reading on them and they said they are made to work best at 3400-3600 rpm. I was wanting to run the slow like on a Burke sharpener type set up but ended up buying a harbor freight variable speed grinder (2200-3600). Let me know how yours works out....