Archive for October, 2024

27
Oct

KNIFE MODIFICATION ~ Redux

   Posted by: woodbeecarver    in Knives

From time to time there comes an inner creative urge to the Wood Bee Carver to tinker again with making Other Knives for personal use utilizing rescued pocket knife blades.  The process includes reshaping the blades into experimental shapes to enhance the Whittle-Carving experience as well as shaping the handles.  Here is the latest results of this modification urge.

 

23
Oct

3 CLOWNS

   Posted by: woodbeecarver    in Carving Projects

The three clowns of this carving project are a repeat performance of previously carved clowns of similar appearance.  Each is carved from a six inch tall by an inch and half square block of basswood and finished with artist oil paint thinned with boiled linseed oil.

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12
Oct

GRAY BEARD PIRATE

   Posted by: woodbeecarver    in Carving Projects

   

The visual image of this carved pirate has been carved several times as a red beard or black beard pirate. It only stands to reason in the imaginary world of pirate myth that there surely were old pirates who had weathered the seas of ancient history. Such is the reason for carving another version of this carving pirate theme with a gray beard and braided hair. A pirate is a carver’s dream of a carving project because of the variety of anomalies of design compared with a regular figure.

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