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[Brian T]

I'd really like to try the computer art thing. I need to see what flexibility it will have.
My only concern is that it doesn't fit the general size class of carvings that I find myself doing.
I can't imagine what to do to see the whole drawing scaled to the actual size of the carving....

[Brian T]

Welcome from the Pacific Northwest. Your Cetaceans are very life-like.
There are many different kinds of poles here, totem, mortuary, story and others.
Relief carved form-line panels often have great stories to tell....

[Brian T]

I gotta do this. Thanks. I can see this sliding into the creases or folds in animal legs, sides of beaks and noses, all sorts of "little" places. I know exactly what you did.
There are hundreds of caterpillars on my story poles, all the grooves between one body and the next.
...

[Brian T]

Thanks. Your guess is as good as mine.
Maybe a simple peg or shaft that matches an unseen hole?

[Brian T]

Down my street is a rustic furniture shop. They make canes, walking sticks, stair cases, tables and queen-sized beds from diamond willow.
On slack days, one of the guys carves western red cedar house doors. He carves antler with a Foredom and does magnificent pyro patterns on bleached and prepared...

[Brian T]

I've decided to use an old gutted musical instrument case for the "overflow" of useful crooked knives.
It occurs to me that I can add on a drawer unit under the box. Like yours = opens both ways.
What keeps the drawer from sliding open? Is there some sort of latch that I can't...

[Brian T]

I knew that the Inuit hunted them out along our arctic ocean coast.
But really have no idea of their biology at all.
With the tusk (males only, huh?), they seem almost mythical like unicorns.

[Brian T]

Kind of you to take a few process pictures but it isn't an obligation.
Not a whole lot of detail in a Narwhale, is there?

What's their social structure? Do they keep in pods like Orca do?

[Brian T]

Good. Seems like they must belong there. Are they like the Watchmen?

[Brian T]

As I scrolled through the most recent couple of pages of this thread, I really was hoping that you would do something clever with the water. Thank you. I'm trying to think who she reminds me of. Makes me all the more determined to get out somehow (streams here open July.01.)

[Brian T]

I just re-read the whole thread. What a hoot. As Pallin says, this is an oldie but a goodie.

In the last 7-10(?) years I have pretty much abandoned the mallet and gouges for the adzes and crooked knives of the PacNW First Nations style carving tools. I feel like such a beginner that...

[Brian T]

The guys in the rustic furniture shop down my street introduced me to the crepe rubber sticks.
They do canes and hiking sticks in batches of 50 so they sand for a month at a time.

I was finishing several carvings that had abalone shell inlay. I actually counted how many times I used...

[Brian T]

I like the design of a horizon beyond the head.
The texture: horizontal rows, vertical rows. point of extinction or random?
I like the design to make them smaller as you approach the horizon.

[Brian T]

Don't forget to buy a crepe rubber stick for cleaning power sanding papers.
When they pack up with dust, the urge is to press harder to keep them cutting.
Wrong, run them on the rubber stick to pull all the dust out of the sandpaper.

I cut and shape abalone and mussel sea shells...

[Brian T]

Good carving books cannot be all things to all people.
First, identify the appealing carving style.
Then the books that recommend the relevant tools for that style are few and far between for some.
Learn to draw and learn to draw well. They are good carvers.

I have several...

[Brian T]

The head hair is so finely textured. Which gouge do you use for that, JJ?

[Brian T]

Welcome Elmiscila. Your english is much better than my Translator would be.
Can you show us the kinds of carvings that you like to do?

[Brian T]

Thanks for showcasing another source of stick material. Your result is a good conversation starter. Be proud of your paint. Useful, yes? Considering what you started with.

[Brian T]

Welcome from the north part of the PacNW.

[Brian T]

Yeah. Remarkable electronics as well. Runs on any voltage from 80 - 240.
I can waste water shaving standing in the shower with a fogged up mirror and pretend I had a good time. So far, I have rounded up 4 elderly ones that got cleaned and sharpened. Once I figured out what to do, the next...