I just made this

[B and C]

A good coat of varnish or varathane will help to keep it from dying out and cracking.

 

[bullfrog]

Be sure and get a cut proof glove like they use for cleaning fish for the hand you hold the wood with. You will eventually thank me. Red stained wood is pretty but not when it comes out of you. A common challenge to see how well you can carve is to try to carve a perfectly round ball on the top of a walking stick. Many small cuts making it look like a golf ball and little or no sanding allowed! My dad was a master carver. He was upset when I wouldn’t accept one of the merry go round horses he had done that took him 8 months to carve until I told him I live in a motor home and would have to cut it in half and mount it outside like a hood ornament, head in the front and tail in the back, my mom gave it to one of his younger friends when died. Escapees used to have a carving club that gathered once or twice a year you might check on.

 

[TruckCamper99]

First chainsaw carving today.

 

[tx2sturgis]

If you can sculpt old telephone poles, I have a LOT of them laying around!

Some of them are so big and heavy, I have to drag them with a chain attached to a tractor, but if cut into shorter pieces, they would be easier to handle.

 

[B and C]

Ah, totem poles

 

[TruckCamper99]

Be sure and get a cut proof glove like they use for cleaning fish for the hand you hold the wood with. You will eventually thank me. Red stained wood is pretty but not when it comes out of you. A common challenge to see how well you can carve is to try to carve a perfectly round ball on the top of a walking stick. Many small cuts making it look like a golf ball and little or no sanding allowed!  My dad was a master carver.  He was upset when I wouldn’t accept one of the merry go round horses he had done that took him 8 months to carve until I told him I live in a motor home and would have to cut it in half and mount it outside like a hood ornament, head in the front and tail in the back, my mom gave it to one of his younger friends when died. Escapees used to have a carving club that gathered once or twice a year you might check on.

good advice on the carving glove. I’ll pick one up. As far as telephone poles, i’m not sure people carve those. Lolol here is a picture mid carve.

 

[TruckCamper99]

I carved this yesterday. First chain saw carving

 

[tx2sturgis]

Cousin IT!

 

[tx2sturgis]

Ah, totem poles

We have a convenience store chain in Amarillo called Toot-n-Totem.

So what I need is the Tulia Totems!

Oh dang this could be fun!