While visiting wife in hospital.

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Nice job Merle, anyone would be proud to sport that cane.

Bob

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While I do not consider myself a "bird carver", I have carved one or two. I am much more comfortable carving waves and sails and sea stuff. My wife had asked me to carve her a Snowy Owl, so I obliged her. A year later it was finished. Feathers..... too many feathers!

Bob...

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Well done Clay, great job.

Bob

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Finally mounted the model on the wall of my shop. I am running out of wall space so I am rearranging things to suit. She looks great up there. Time to begin another project.

Bob

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Those are two very interesting faces and the wood is exceptional for colour and grain. Well done. Never tried Chestnut wood, not a lot of it up this way.

Bob

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That is a really nice piece of carving Hobo, classic design and well carved/finished.

Bob

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Great idea and even better ideas to improve on it. Keep up the experiment JP, the results can only get better and better.

Bob

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I feel so lucky to live where we do. The people here don't seem to be infected with the bug of "over the top security" in our daily lives. I regularly carve in doctors offices, dentist's waiting rooms, all waiting rooms in our hospital and at our malls, without ever being requested to pack...

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Cold and windy here tonight, at a balmy -20 C (wind chill -30 C) and about 18" - 24" of fresh snow on the ground, with a base of another 18" below that. Not bad for the last day of January, I do recall a day that we had a truck brakes let go and it rolled down the hill into a laboratory...

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Teak is a wood widely used in ship building. It's longevity is famous and it will stand up to the worst conditions the sea can throw at it. It does require maintenance to keep it looking good in marine conditions, but those conditions do not effect the strength of the wood, just the surface look....

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Ohhhh, nice work.

Bob

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This Great White was caught by fishermen off Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, my home province, back in 2003, it was a 22 footer. I grew up swimming in those waters and never saw a sign, and after watching the movie "Jaws" I seldom swam there again. I did see a Great White off California back...

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My Bride of 46 years slipped in the kitchen just before new Years and broke her back. Simple slip and fall, but lasting consequences. She was admitted to hospital to get her pain under control and she has been doing well these past two weeks. Thank goodness no serious long lasting effects, so she...