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Figured I finally get around to taking a shot at a Dumbo! Still got a few things to tweak on this one before the finish, but I thought he was coming along pretty good so far! Ears and tusks attached separately since I don't have logs big enough to accommodate something like this from one piece. Sucker weighs a ton as it sits.

Haven't posted any carvings in a while so I thought I'd hang a few here for the off season. Still got a mess of logs to dice up and will probably have to drop a few more before fall. Don't think I've posted any of these here yet. Hope everyone's having a good summer so far!

Happy B-day good buddy! Thanks for all your encouragement and support over the years, and hope your day is as blessed as it can be!

I've been thinking about trying these for a wile now. Guess the only thing holding me back is I'll need one for each chain since they're all different pitch so I'd need 3 of them.... and maybe a 4'th soon. I've got about a dozen dull ones now so it's probably a good time to work them over and get some more use out of them one way or another. Have only heard good things about these.

They sure look cute and cuddly now, but in just a few short months they'll be biting the heads off their mates after knockin' the Mantis boots,lol

I think I need a cold shower after this erotic series,lol

ANYTHING with no soft, dry rot spots! Pine and hemlock carve like butter. Maple seems to take the detais the best, and I just LOVE the color I get from a piece of cherry like this one, but it's hard on both me and the saws. I just got a load of poplar and couldn't believe how hard that stuff is too. Unfortunately it's a very wet wood that retains a lot of water and needs to be dried for some time before the finish is applied or the varnish turns very cloudy. Learned that the hard way. Should have some red oak and cottonwood to play around with soon as well but haven't worked with any of that yet.

5'th pic down, over shot my cut under the chin,lol Gotta clean that crap up!

Trust me, I probably have the smallest head of any carvers I know,lol The flaws in this one jump right out at me just like every other hunk of wood I ever took a saw to!

My neighbor brought me this big ol' cherry log a few weeks ago so I got to sawing on it the other day and finished up this afternoon. My plan started with a simple drawing of a dragon that lives in my head and it worked out pretty sweet on the wood too!

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I've just been posting them to my FB art page and yard sale pages and sell whatever I can. I get a lot of new customers through word of mouth, just from a few folks who've already bought from me and show their friends. A handful of repeat customers too. Also just donated my first one to a local animal rescue facility for auction or raffle with all proceeds going to the shelter. Paula also helps me sell,lol I still don't take special orders, and make whatever I feel like making. Sometimes I have to hang on to some stuff for a while, but at least I'm not forced to work on something I don't feel like.

Found this little rooster at Tractor supply and figured I'd give it a shot. I might go back for the elephant and a few others,lol

Just need to pick up some varnish tomorrow to wrap this one up.

Thanks guys! Here's a little more progress before getting rained out again. Should be pretty close to done next time the sun shines.

Did the fish thing on one of my other eagles, so I've kinda been leaning towards having him on a skull... or holding a skull... or a pile of skulls,lol. I got a weird thing for skulls lately.

That thing saved me AT LEAST an hour on that head and such a nice deep, even burn! My little old handheld bottle kit "bearly" touched the color of that wood no matter how long I held the flame to it.

I got a good start on another eagle yesterday. Just your basic stump eagle pose with a few feature changes I did to add a little more life. Need to think of a design for the base and finish up a few more things on the bird himself. My neighbor also brought me over a mess of big ol' poplar logs he cut up in his yard last fall that he was just going to burn to get rid of. Damn them suckers are HEEEEAVY! I managed to get a few of those hauled over to my pit on a plastic sled when we still had a little snow on the ground and carved a few bear heads from them. He brought the rest over on the quad for me yesterday which was awfully white of him! My little Bernzomatic torch was having a real hard time getting any kind of burn on them since they were still so green, so I had to "upgrade" to a different level flame thrower! Besides my saws, I think I found my new favorite tool,lol. For some reason my PC is not embedding any you tube vids, so the clickable link here should take you to my short torch demo there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bq652p1olE

OMG- those are just little babies! I'll bet you shoot jakes and forkhorns too,lol You would think a guy with a handle like Let em Grow would be a little more selective when he takes a leek!

Got this guy done today.

The guys that piss me off are the career tailgaters! You can be doing 40 in a 30, or 70 in a 55, or 120 in 45 for that matter, and they're still right on your ass! They even got the balls to flash their alternating headlights, then turn on those obnoxious flashing red and blue roof lights, and some will even go so far as to use sirens to intimidate you, or yell at you over an intercom speaker to "PULL OVER" and then they just pull up behind you anyhow. THEN they take you to work with them, and the whole way there they drive 5 under the limit and talk about you to their buddies over the radio like they just caught the biggest fish in the lake,lol

Just another example of why you wont find Stormy at any of the forum get togethers,lol Even friendly fire is still fire!

Found this little mutt draggin' his butt through the sawdust today,lol

NASA just released this image from the moon rover!

Looks like the work of some kind of shady barnyard chicken abortion clinic,lol