Hillbilly Santa

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Great work! Love the finish!

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Woodburner...I use acrylics thinned with a Matte Acrylic Medium I get at Hobby Lobby. I switched to that from thinning with water and I don't have the problem of paint bleed from one area to the next, and find that the paint goes on smoother than with water.

Joe...the fur design was a...

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Chuck...as I sit in my office, I am looking at a clock I made with the help of my father-in-law that is made of Black Walnut. I finished it with several coats of Tung oil that I hand rubbed, followed up with Satin Polyurethane, and then a good coat of MinWax paste wax.

It really brought...

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Thanks, everyone! I will keep posting stuff as I get it finished!

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Here is what a Santa looks like in the backwoods...this one comes from a pattern from Mike Shipley's Carving Country Folk, and is actually the Odie character. I reworked the pattern a bit to come up with this look!

His nose is a blend of Medium Flesh and Flesh tone, his beard is Chocolate...

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Here in the very center of Kansas, we just received the news there is the first confirmed case in our county. I am a banker, so I am working in an 'Essential Business' as noted by our Governor, so I have to be at work.

I am cautiously optimistic that this thing will pass, but one thing...

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Very nice carving! Good Job!

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Very well done!

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Very, very nice! I have a Foredom still in the box waiting to try out. Keep the projects coming!

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Here is a snowman from Mike Shipley's pattern...he is the happy little snowman project in the book, Carving Snowmen and Santas. I took the hat off of the 'Snowman in a Tophat', and put it on this guy.

Haven't painted the hat band yet until I get with my wife and see what cloth swatches...

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For me, Randy, that was last weekend! With everything shutting down, we took the time to clean the basement and it allowed me to set up a painting station in my man cave and get rid of stuff I should have tossed years ago!

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Way to go, Ed! Kansas Wildlife and Parks stocked trout in our local city lake here, but our city has closed the park, so I can't go fishing! I may have to take up carving trout before this thing is all over!

I am relegated to carving, painting, and getting my deer rifles ready for the...

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Wow! Tremendous carvings!

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What little power carving I have done has been accomplished with a Dremel 395. I upgraded to a Foredom 1/6th HP power carving kit for Christmas a couple of years ago.

I am setting myself up to get all of these things before I retire. My father in law contracted COPD from years of not having...

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Since everything is going on with this crazy crisis, I am taking Randy's advice and turning out some carvings! I am an avid reader, and they have even shut down our local library, so I am fresh out of library books!

I am a pattern tinkerer, and I have previously posted some pics here of...