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He’s finally received his name.  After you’ve carved as many characters as I have over the years it’s gets harder and harder to come up with a unique name…and to me names are really important as they carry the theme of the carving.  So, in this carving, with the Indian chasing a Buffalo through an…

Here’s a new one that left the Ranch before the paint was dry!   The weekend’s over and he’s not to happy about what the Top Hand has laid out for him.  At least it’s not fence work. Hope you like him.   Comments welcome.

Well, it took a while but he’s finally finished…..Just in time for the Tulsa Woodcarving Show.   I’m quite pleased with the way he turned out and hope you are too.  That shield really sets him off and shows how much an extra detail can add to a piece. Comments welcome.

I finished this one up last week.  I really like to do the 3/4 style busts as a lot of detail can be squeezed in without making the figure so large. This Rancher is after the reprobates who have been diminishing his livestock.  He’s got his noose ready and is heading to the corral to…

Here’s Willy, all painted up and ready to head down to the new Casino and try is luck.  Hope you like him. Comments always welcome.

I’m still working to clear off the partially finished carvings setting on my work table.  One of the best way to do it is to add a bust body to one of the many heads I’ve done.  I think I’ve mentioned before that on our Tuesday carvers gathering at the Senior Center in town I…

Added the hat feathers yesterday which completed this piece.  I had my worries about whether the solid color capote would work but I think it turned out pretty well.  Not every Mountain Man in the Rockies was fortunate enough to have a Hudsons Bay blanket and had to depend on just what was available. I…

Today I worked on the lower half of Old Gabe.  He’s wearing a blanket capote, loosely modeled after one we picked up at a Mountain Man Rendezvous last year at the Woolaroc Museum.  I ask Judy to come down and model it for me so I could actually see how it fit.  Photos are nice…

Here’s a new one.  With the walnut base he stands about 12″ tall to the tip of the feathers.  I was a little worried about the colors as they were a little dark compared to other pieces but it turned out pretty nice.   A lot of people ask me why I never do a smiling…

I finished carving this one this morning.  As you can see from the earlier post Blowing in the Wind, there have been some major changes.  I decided to make the figure Custer and title it to reflect his jaunty attitude on his way to the Little Big Horn, not knowing what waits for him there….