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I thought I was good because I could follow a pencil line but this guy is genius!

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I used to think I was good....... nowhere near that caliber though.

I used to think I was good with a bandsaw, back when I had ten fingers.

Did some work with a Dremil Tool once. Carvered this out of a solid piece of 4 x 4 inch wood fence post. Stands about 10" tall -

"Touch Me not, for I have not yet Ascended - -"








Michelangelo was right - The form is in there. You just have to go find it!

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Originally posted by greywolfghost:
Did some work with a Dremil Tool once. Carvered this out of a solid piece of 4 x 4 inch wood fence post. Stands about 10" tall -

"Touch Me not, for I have not yet Ascended - -"








Michelangelo was right - The form is in there. You just have to go find it!

that's really good GW.... I couldn't get the link to the bandsaw to show me anything so do not know what that was all about but your efforts on the fence post is outstanding... hope your kids know what a piece of heritage you have sitting on top of the mantle.

Ok thats it I am selling my bandsaw and all my woodworking tools. He makes me look like an idiot trying to be a poor amatuer..

I used to make custom rifle stocks and do a lot of carving, but haven't done any in years.....ya know, I really do wonder why???

That's good stuff G.W.G.

"Noli me Tangere"

Well, if yer like me, ya do something for a while, then it gets old or ya run out of ideas, so ya try something else, and then something else, and then - -

I did a few oil paintings year ago, until I ran out of walls without paintings - - Then I did carvings of various kinds, then I got lazy and just did a lot of posters for my classroom, then I wrote a couple of books nobody wanted to publish, then I gave all my oil paintings to the boys, so I'd have some empty walls, then I did some paintings with acrylics -

Now, I'm gona do a final oil painting - but I don't have a wall anywhere. . .

THAT'S IT!!!

I'm gonna do it!!

I have had the wildest hair to paint a mural on the wall of our dining area in our condo!!

We bought it in Oct. of 07 and moved in and it has the personality of a large flat rock!! A BORING flat rock!!

SOOO!! The Clipper Thermopolae is gonna be on our fifteen foot wall in about six months....thanks for the push big guy!!!

T

Any one wanna buy a bandsaw? That guy was amazing...GWG outstanding work..the only carving I am any good at ends with a trip to the hospital for stitches

That was pretty cool.

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Originally posted by tawodi:
THAT'S IT!!!

I'm gonna do it!!

I have had the wildest hair to paint a mural on the wall of our dining area in our condo!!

We bought it in Oct. of 07 and moved in and it has the personality of a large flat rock!! A BORING flat rock!!

SOOO!! The Clipper Thermopolae is gonna be on our fifteen foot wall in about six months....thanks for the push big guy!!!

T

Doit!! The thing about a mural is that if you get tired of it, you can always paint over it! Bad thing is - if you decide to move, ya can't take it with you - -

Years ago, while I was teaching, the Art Teacher had his students do wall paintings of Vikings (based on a bunch of my drawings) on various large blank areas around the school to keep it from being so blase'. The students loved seeing the school Mascot everywhere.

One year, we come back to school, and a new principal allowed the new head custodian to paint cream-colored paint over all of them, "because they would be too hard to maintain..."!

Well, it caused quite a stir - but I couldn't say anything without looking self-serving. So, like Jefferson when they were lining out sections of his draft for the Declaration of Independence, I remained angrily silent - -

As to the bandsaw dude, we had a shop teacher who, when he retired, had only one finger that was still complete. His most famous incident occurred when I was a Junior there. He was showing us how to safely use a "planing machine" and cut the tip of a finger off right in front of us - GROSS!!!!!

I Could Do THAT band saw thing ... with 50 years of practice

If ya got nothing else to do than "whatever" for 24/7 you can get pretty darn good at a lot of things.

So don't y'all feel bad just because ya can't play like [put in name of famous person here]

Some of the things we do as a hobby - like what Graywolf carved out - are far more valuable to family and friends than to the general public.
AND ... they are not 'cookie-cutter' type things.
AND ... They usually have a lot more TLC in them

G.W.G.

When my daughter was in the third grade ( she's 14 now) The kids did a bunch of paintings on the school walls.

As with most projects like this, some of the art work was just that, ART!!

Carly came home with the tale of how some of the teachers wanted to keep some of it, but the principal was against it for upkeep reasons, like you said.

I went to school the next day and told the principal I could make it so the paintings would be washable and she could hold a vote among the students on which ones were to be preserved and I would do it for free!

The trick of course being to preserve the "texture" of the art. It was all water painting, and tempera.

Well sure enough, the big day came and the decisions were made and the school called me. I then went with an airbrush type sprayer and triple coated all the paintings with matt fixative then four coats of semi gloss polyurethane water based varnish. Then painted a simple black frame around each one so that future painting could be done on the walls. All are now scrubbable and will remmain so for the forseeable future with modest maintenance, Hand sanding four hundred grit wet paper and recoating with the next coat of clear.

I am inordinately proud of this little thing, as Carly's picture is among the lot!!

T

Somewhere I got a picture of one of the drawings - The students put them on overhead projectors and shined them on the walls then painted them in so they were like 8 feet tall - it was cool...

Of course, I was bias - -

Here's about the only one of the drawings I still have a foto of - -

I'm going to have a couple of brewskies and count my ten digits.

G.W. That IS cool!!

I'm gonna dig out my old Winchester I carved an Eagle in the stock one day sittin' on a stump up in Scraggly lake Maine. I had a couple of sports out in the woods for deer and it was lunch time and the "muse" overtook me!! I think I can get a pretty good shot with my web cam we'll see....

T

Carved an Elk and Cougar is the stock of Dad's old Model 1894 .32 Special. After I'd done it, I kinda wish I hadn't, because he bought it in 1945 - probably ruined its "collectible" status. But I gave it to my youngest son not too long ago, so it's a moot question now - -