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This was my second scene, completed back in the mid-90’s. Unfortunately, I only have three photos of it and they are basically the same. Here’s a very valuable tip…….TAKE LOTS OF PHOTOS OF YOUR PIECES!! Especially now that we are in the digital age where we can store gobs of photos on our computers at…

Here is one I did back in 2002. As our Farrier comes around to give the horses a retread about every 6 weeks I thought he would make a good subject for a carving. Naturally I placed him back in the Old West and considering that commercial shoes probably weren’t that readily available or affordable…

Another chuckwagon cook?  This time whipping up a special treat for the boys….a couple of delicious apple pies.  One is in the oven bubbling away and the other will soon to be baking. I put a paring knife in his hand as he’s just finished trimming the top crust and adding a few vent holes. …

Here are two small carvings  of Country Doctors from back in the 90s.  I have done similar figures a couple of times before . These stand about 7″ tall not counting the base. Funny, I was seriously considering reducing the size of my figures beginning with these but after the positive results of several woodcarving…

This is a pretty involved scene as I wanted to get in as much of the actual detail of a Chuckwagon set up as possible.  It took me about a year and a half to complete it. In the closeup photos in the photos below you can see the details more clearly.  The cowboy leaning…

Here’s another cowboy looking for a ride on a dark night.  Now, from the expression on his face he looks a little shifty so he must have some sort of plan.  Who knows?  Those guys are always up to something.  I changed the action of this character just a bit by lowering his arm holding…

Well, the biscuits look good, the beans tasty but the cook could use a little work!    Hope you like him.

If you’re familiar with the TV series and book Lonesome Dove you will recognize Po Campo, the camp cook on the drive to Montana.  As he got his job by offering up some crispy insects I thought I would add one to create a little interest to the piece.  I carved the body of the…

Now this one is an exact copy of one I did a few years back.  But as he is headed to Santa Fe, and as I always liked the way the colors were so bright and worked so well together,  I thought it would gather a lot of interest setting in our display.  The wood…

Another Indian bust with a shield.  You might think I would get tired of carving these but I don’t.  I love to paint and come up with new ways to detail the figures.  This one was for a lady who liked Appaloosa horses.   Once the figure was painted it looked kind of bland to me…