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When pulling the photos of this piece from the picture file my first thought was “Wow! I sure wish I could still carve that good!”  Unfortunately, those days have passed.  AFIB and age has just about put the kybosh to my carving abilities.  Oh….I still go down to the shop each day and look at…

I honestly can’t remember just how many of these I’ve carved over the years.  This is the most popular group of carvings I’ve ever done. One thing you would notice is that while the scene is basically the same the horses are always different and some of the signage changes. That’s important to both me…

Here’s an old friend from the past.  I did this one back in 2000 for a collector down in San Antonio, Texas.  It ended up in Southern California and was recently put up for auction.  It was purchased by a couple in Arkansas.  Unfortunately, the previous owner didn’t spend much time packing him up so…

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.