Originally published on March 4, 2014
Here’s the beginning of my next project. It’s will be quite a large carving…already testing the limits of my Band-saw not to mention my right arm! Excluding the head the body blank took an entire 4″ x10″x18″ block of that good Heineke wood. He will be holding a pipe and that’s his pipe bag that hangs from his arm. It will have fringe and beaded designs. I’m not sure I’ll use that base as it was just one I had handy so I could take the photo. Worked on it yesterday afternoon and it about wore me out and that was using the reciprocal handle on my Fordum. That is one great tool for removing large amounts of wood fast but it’s still quite tiring.
Anyway, thought you might like an early peek atwhats going on down the hill. Sure beats shoveling snow!! Will keep you up to date as it progresses.
Next Day.
Finished up the body today and then made a new base. As this piece is approximately 24″ tall and rather top heavy I made the base in two pieces to give it a footprint large enough to keep it upright. I epoxied a piece of 1/2″ steel all-thread into the base of the piece so it could be firmly bolted to the base. The base is walnut.
Tomorrow I’ll start with the hair braids and then move on to the feathers and the smaller details. This one should really be a looker once completed. Lots of color.
Comments welcome.
