A couple of letter Openers

[Ray S. S.]

Re: New carving shop

Good job! It looks like you are covering all the base pretty well. I
wish you many years of enjoyable use and lots of great projects.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: ~~ A Lazy Pampered Cat ~~

Steev, I tried the way you said and after the click on the new tab
nothing happened. I guess I\'ll just have to wait some more, but
I thank you for letting me know that it is the glitch. Also got a lot
of the slash marks like I see on...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: ~~ A Lazy Pampered Cat ~~

That looks like a pretty neat carving. But when I click on it to
enlarge it, my screen gets black. I\'m not sure if it is the forum at fault, or if it is my computer. I\'ve been having problems with it so I took it in to get it fixed and they removed...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: A couple of letter Openers

Thank you, Goodgal and Kadiddle

[Ray S. S.]

Re: Stylized Whittling

That will be a cute and unusual pendent.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: First Carved Lovespoon

That looks pretty nice, Jillsy, I enjoy doing the Celtic knots, too. I never use a back
pattern. After the outline is all cut, you do all the woven parts in the front. Then the way I do it is to hold one of the loops at the edge and look at the strand...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: An Angel

Thanks, jangler, She had a real pleasantly surprised look on her face when she first saw
it. It made me feel good to see that she liked it so well.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: A couple of letter Openers

Joe, I have never seen any blood wood so am unfamiliar with it. The rosewood is super
hard and will take quite a sharp edge. I do both edges and after the final sanding it has
quite a sharp edge. After a couple coats of polyurathane it...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: Oops

Hello, Peter, I'm glad it wasn't any worse. Take good care of it and I wish you the
best of luck with it.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

A friend works in a small factory where they make musical instruments and he
gave me some small strips of Brazilian Rosewood. They are 20" long by 3 and
a half to 4" wide and 3/16 " thick. Due to their thinness, about the only thing I
can carve out of them is letter...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: ~ ~ Old Timey Pickup ~ ~

Wow, that is pretty nice. It shows a lot of work and care involved. Those little people
in the first pic look like real happy characters. A person can't help but smile just looking
at them. A very appealing set and your grandson will enjoy...

[Ray S. S.]

Re: Wood flower pictures

These carrot people are pretty cute with the expressions on their faces.

Your flowers are really artistic and shows some good talent. I like the looks of them.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: An Angel

Thanks, Mike.

Hello, Claude, I thank you for the compliment and I can say the same to you. I just
clicked on your sites and saw several very nice carvings.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: Female face and hair WIP

Nice job. Everything looks well proportioned. That is a nice flowing hair style.

I like it.

Ray

[Ray S. S.]

Re: An Angel

Thanks, Rick. I searched around for a while and never did find wings that really suited me
so I reshaped one design and used it. With wanting to do all the feathers like that it was kind of tricky finding a pattern that would work out for me. I use Xacto knives...