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75 degree temp swing in a week here...70F yesterday, one week ago, high was -5F...

Great carvings, Dailab!!!!

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The 2x2x6 blocks are the starting place for Pete LeClair's Carving Caricatures from Scratch...here is my interpretation of the book project below...

They are just fun to do, and a challenge for me......

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What wonderful craftsmanship! In 1973, I was in 7th grade and got to take woodshop. Our first project was using hand tools to make a small desktop bookshelf--handsaw, planes, and a bit/brace. The first part of the class was learning how to do draw it using a drawing table and a T-square, then transfer...

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That is just cuter than cute! Good job!

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That is funny! Here in Kansas, upland bird hunting is some of the best in the country...well, one season, a long time ago, I shot a pheasant and put it in the pickup bed and drove to the next field...as I was getting ready to walk the new field, the 'dead' pheasant flushed from the pickup bed and I...

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Soggy, you are a master of replicating those hunting scenes...hope they aren't based on first hand experience!!!

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I belong to a carving 'club' here in Central Kansas. We meet on Thursday nights from 6:30 to 8:30...we only discontinued meeting last year while our county was in 'shutdown' mode. Myself and one other guy are the 'kids' of the club at 59. We had 2 regular members that will start coming again in March...

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Great job! He is a sporty looking chap!

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Great carving! It is so cold here in Kansas that the politicians have their hands in their own pockets!!!!

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I started my caricature carving experience with Jack Price' book, Carving Small Characters...here is a link to the book...

https://www.bing.com/shop?q=jack+pri...CE2EF806CFD210

Harold Enlow has a good book on carving faces, and the one I am using now to work on my faces is...

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One thing I learned in a class with Roger Stegall last November is to start with a gouge, and finish up in the gouge marks with a v-tool...it really adds a lot! Pay attention to how tberry used the gouge, and try and replicate that...

Good luck!...

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Great job, and great finish!

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Brian...when I teach the Ethics portion of our Hunter Education here in Kansas, I cite the slaughter of the bison as one of the worst conservation blunders ever...from 60 million to less than 1,000 in the lower 48 in 1901...

Russell, Kansas, where I grew up, was a major Union Pacific stop...

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Russell, Kansas...home of the guy that ran against Bill Clinton in '96, Bob Dole...halfway between the east and west borders of Kansas, and just a bit north of halfway between the north and south borders...

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That looks mighty tasty!

Our neighbor on the farm had a hobby herd of bison. They needed much stouter facilities than one needs for handling beef cattle. When they decide they want to get from Point A to Point B, most everything in their way gets mowed down...

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Nice, nice, nice!!!!

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I need readers when I wear my contacts...don't need them when I don't. I recently picked up these at Cabelas:

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/cars...2fc7fc8b0e31be

I bought them for fly fishing, but they work very well for carving as well! I got the 2.25X model...I couldn't...

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The thing I really like about Deepwoods is that Paul forges his own knives from bar stock...you can see how he does it on his website...he is responsive to any issue you might have, and if you do have any issues with any of his knives, he makes it right. I have never had an issue with a Helvie knife...

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Excellent advice...OCCT knives, Helvie and Deepwoods Ventures are the only knives in my kit! Good luck!

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Brian...I see what you mean! I have the 5 tool Ramelson detail set that retails there for $82.50, that I picked up about 10 years ago for $25.00...also have a Henry Taylor 60 degree V-tool I got on sale at Woodcraft for $15.00...now it looks any HT tool is $45.00+...