Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: ohma2 on January 12, 2018, 01:58:38 pm
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his will go to a friend when done. will post pic when painted and mounted.
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Very nice. Are the scales just gouge marks?
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Yes pat they are put in one at a time with gouge ,they will lay down more realistically when the paint wash is applied.
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Looking forward to seeing the finished piece. :OK
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That looks awesome
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Very nice ohma2. What type of paint will you use? Will you sir brush it?
Bjrogg
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Wow I love it (shouted) jeffw
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That's sweet. I watched a man in the Bahamas gauge out a huge coy fish like that...
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Real good carving! Beats anything I could do! Waiting for the painted pic.
Hawkdancer
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WOW - Too cool :OK. Bob
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That!!! is very cool!!!A bluegill I presume?
I'm sure BJ would love to paint that one with his air brush gun.
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Bjrogg l use acrilic paint with washes done with a brush.thanks for the kind words guys.
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Nice work
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very nice work. Some day I hope to have time and space to do that kind of work.
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heres a couple of pics to show paint work.just ran a 3 inch screw through my pointing finger so the bluegill wont be done for awhile.wasnt bad going through but reversing the drill and backing it out was tough.
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Nice carving and paint jobs. I've never put a screw through my finger but I did get my beard caught in a high-speed drill years ago...twice! :o
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Pat you have got a big beard too,bet that was fun getting loose.piece of walnut was half rotten and the bit went through quick with my finger on the back side of exit hole.
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Ouch. Really looks great ohma2. Love the paint job to. I've been thinking about woodcarving for a couple years now. My dad gets a magazine I like to look at. I really need at least three more hobbies.lol.
Bjrogg
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Bjrogg hey go for it ,its relaxing to me and i dont have to buy presents.everybody gets a dust collector ;)
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Wow! I see progressing from spoons, walking sticks o more cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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Very cool carvings 8) 8)
Zuma )W(
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Nice carving love the man with the selfbow
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Thanks guys.eddie you seem to stay so busy dont know how you do all you do.
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BJ,
What magazine is it that your dad gets? Been looking for one dedicated to carving. Thanks!
Hawkdancer
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Chip Chats? Chip Chats is the magazine of the The National Wood Carvers Association (of America). Woodcarving Illustrated is really good; they used to send out a free taster copy once upon a time but not overseas anymore
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Beautiful stuff, very nice work. :)
Pappy
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Hawkdancer I'm not sure. I'll try to remember to find out. I think it might be woodcarving illustrated. I don't even know if he subscribed to it but he's had a couple.
Bjrogg
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You got skilz there brother. I started with decoys before I got into stone. John
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Nice!
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First safety rule of meat cutters and woodcarvers is "Remember the safety glove". Rule 2 Is"It goes on the hand holding the work"! >:D. Trust me, I know! Other good rule is "keep fingers away from exit hole when drilling"! Haven't drilled myself lately, but I laid open my finger making an end cap for a powder horn 3-4 years ago! Heal well! Good looking paint job so far!
Hawkdancer
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Stuck,
Thanks for the info, I'll check them out.
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Safety glove? Really? The possibility of drawing blood teaches good technique: gloves lead to a tighter grip, a cavalier attitude toward the blade, blunter tools and a refusal to learn to use a tool equally well with either hand. I never allowed gloves in any of the carving classes I taught, never had a serious cut, except when one student reached over his knife to grab a coffee, even he only needed sticking plaster.
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Yeah, I know! OSHA rules and union rules or some such! Got to remember to keep the coffee on the working hand side >:D. Being left handed, I am fairly able to work with either hand, but nowhere near equally when it comes to fine carving. Most of the classes around here require the glove, though.
Hawkdancer
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I'm also naturally lefty, taught to be a righty, so I'm mixed handed, but, if the students need to switch hands, they'll have to take the glove off, put on a different glove and then carve? Doesn't encourage good technique... I got lazy last summer and stopped switching hands, now I got tendonitis so I gotta carve with the 'wrong' hand, my own stupid fault, but an important lesson in there somewhere
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Stickinthemud post us up a carving to view ,like looking at other peoples work
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I'll have to try that "2 handed switch technique". Got a right handed crook knife to work with so may get a spoon or bowl going to learn on.! Not sure about switching with the straight blades at my age! We need a carver board so we aren't stealing Ohma's post! >:D
Hawkdancer
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Nice!