A two day class in Whittle-Carving was held August 7 and 8, 2010 at the Ashland Area Woodcarvers meeting location in the Steelworkers Hall. Twelve members of the club participated in the class of learning to carve using only a knife. Pictured in the photographs are left of club sign, Gina Woods and right of the club sign is Jeff Reihs. In the middle row are left to right: Pat Ramey, Allen Woods, Rick Eskins and Henry Ramey. In the back row are left to right: Roy Prince, Ed Brown, Jerry Prince, Guy Purcell, Butch Myers and Charlie Brown. Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for August, 2010
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Aug
ELKHORN III
ELKHORN III was carved out a three and half inch square by eight and half inch tall block of butternut with traditional carving tools. Boiled linseed oil is the main finish with a coat of Deft brushing lacquer to protect the oil finish. Wood burning highlighted some areas with darker coloration. A butternut base was carved into an oval shape with tool marks giving random texture so that the eye does not stop at hard lines making the base non-descript. Read the rest of this entry »
5
Aug
MINIATURE FIGURES
MINIATURE Carvings are normally under two inches tall and for competition purposes must fit within a two inch cube including the base. The three Miniatures in the photograph at the left begin on the left with I. B. Whittled (two inch tall) in center is Jughead (one and three eighths of inch tall) and Santa head on golf tee (two inches tall). Each were carved using only the tip end of a knife blade.
The very tip end of any blade that comes to a quick point is the detail blade portion of the entire blade as only a fraction of the blade is doing the carving. The next series of photographs show several Miniatures and the knife that carved the miniature figure using only the tip end of the blade. Read the rest of this entry »