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Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A great slide to carve with lot changeling parts. Carved from maple with a sharp knife with lots for breaks for sharping the blade. Painted with craft paint and sealed with poly. I understand the word Aumakuas means "family god" in Hawaiian.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: .5 hours Finishing: 1 hour A quick and easy slide to make. The best part of this is picking up a pine cone some time when your are attending an event you want to remember.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Another slide I really like! I seem to remember carving this at summer camp in between lunch and Scoutmaster nap time. Carved from maple and painted with craft paints.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour A seahorse carved from maple and painted with craft paints/finished with poly. I remember asking my parents about ordering seahorse out of the back of Boys Life Gift and Gimmicks section. They would never let me but I'm over it (kinda).
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour My first thought was when was the last time goal posts like this was used? So it's a bit dated but the idea is there of kicking a field goal.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A two part slide, the head wobbles as you move. The body has a hollow area drilled into it and the head has a heavy bolt glued into it which extends into the body hole.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Fun little slide to make. The time listed was for carving all the little parts that will be glued together to make the finished slide. Some parts were painted with craft paints and some were left the natural red or white maple.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Carved from red maple this is a chip design so there is very little sanding involved. Finished with a couple of coats of poly.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: .5 hours Finishing: none Got a spare patch hanging around? This is a quick and easy slide to make! Glue the patch to a heavy piece of cardboard and glue a loop to it.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Carved from maple, its a funny little creature. Painted with a light covered light colored paint then rubbed with black shoe polish. Finally given a couple of coats of poly.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Coming on the heels of the showshoe slide, I knew that I would use basketry reed to complete this slide. I glued a couple of reeds together using super glue and soaked it in water to make it pliable.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour There is something really pleasant about the simplicity and elegance of these bamboo slides. All that is really needed is a saw and some sandpaper (also some cord for one) This one had additional ears, nose and eyes.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1 hours Finishing: .5 hour Made from bamboo and thin leather this was a quick slide to make. Somehow I can't think about this slide without thinking about a classic scene from Big Bang Theory
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour For a couple of years I tried to find a suitable material for the wooden frame and it struck me one day during summer camp watching the Scouts at Basketry Merit Badge that basket reed would be the perfect material.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Corn on the cob, some burgers on the grill and a cool ice tea in the warm breeze of a summer day. Easy to dream about it on a cold March day.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Having just awoken from an afternoon nap, its funny that the next slide to talk about was the Siesta slide. Carved from maple and painted with craft paints, this was a quick slide to make.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hour Made from some horns I bought from a pet supply store and a deer bone a friend gave me. I cut the pattern using a saw and carved the design with a file. I shined up the slides with polishing compound.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hour Made from some horns I bought from a pet supply store and a deer bone a friend gave me. I cut the pattern using a saw and carved the design with a file. I shined up the slides with polishing compound.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour The horns are carved from a piece of maple and painted with craft paint. Center is red felt with black thread on the ends. The plaque is also made from maple with an one step staion/poly.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Found a jelly or cream cheese container at a restaurant for the pie tin and used whole black peppercorns for the cherries. The filling was spackle and I cut out a piece of pie before painting it red.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve/make: 3 hours Finishing: 2 hour There was a couple of versions of this slide, one wooden and one metal. The wooden one was carved from maple with leather and painted with a chrome paint. The metal one is made from aluminum, some small chain, and leather.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Another cow horn (from an earlier ebay order) project. This project took some prep as the horn I use needed to be sanded smooth as it was a bit hairy to begin with.
Easter time sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3.5 hours Finishing: .5 hour When looking for a bone for this slide you never know where you are going to find it. After looking in the woods and hitting up hunter I know, I finally found the one I used in an Easter ham.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 2 hours Finishing: .5 hour Made from a cow horn (ordered off ebay), I sawed the basic shape and carved out the eyes and ears. Boiled the slide in water for an hour or more to make the horns pliable so I could bend them back.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Made from a couple of black walnuts the eye sockets were filed flat with file as were the bottom of the head and top of the body.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Carved from red maple and whipped with some heavy black thread. Finished with poly. This type of slide could be carved from almost any kind of knot that could be tied!
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2.5 hour Another set slides that took some time to find just the materials. In the end, I ordered a couple of dipper gourds off of ebay. Now this really surprised me when it came to carving because it was one of the hardest…
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A couple of slide that took some time to procure (well at least the second one). The first slide was made from a piece of thin hobby plywood as a background, the tube from a dowel, and the bulb is made from…
Fall of 2016 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour So I avoided these slides for a long time because I'm not much of a metal worker but my discovery of an affordable doming block got me started on these.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2 hour An odd slide for me to make. I chose not to include a face because I wasn't happy with the way it was coming out so here is the result.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: .5 hours Finishing: 2 hour It's interesting to me that this slide is called the Milkweed Butterfly and not the Monarch. Was this because the larva eat milkweed? Anyway the body was carved from a piece of scrap wood and painted with craft paint.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Another slide carved during Merit Badge Uninversity at UMASS Amherst I think a couple of years ago. I had a couple of adults ask me about what I was carving while I was chipping away, well here's the result.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour One of my favorite pieces! Carved from red maple it was made using a rotary tool with a saw bit and my knife. Lots of sanding in this one too.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve/make: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour This one took a bit of time to procure as palm trees don't grow up north and my mother-in-law had gotten rid of her palm tree in Florida.
Spring of 2016 Time to make: 2.5 hours I had some bead left over from some earlier projects so there was nothing to pick up. Just a needle, thread, and piece of white cloth and I was on my way to beading.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2.5 hour Knot slides were an interesting addition to my woggles. Worn at the bottom of the neckerchief, in place of trying a knot like some do, these are a nice compliment to the "top" knot.
Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: .5 hours Finishing: 2 hour So a quick drilling a 3/4 inch hole in a dowel and cutting it to size. An old golfing glove for the leather (I golfed?) and some nylon cord for threading.
Some time between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1 hours Finishing: 2 hour The squirrels around my house find black walnuts somewhere around here (I've never been able to find it) and bury them in my yard. So when I saw this pattern, it was as easy as picking one off the ground in…
Around Thanksgiving 2011 Time to make: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour "You want what?" my wife said when I asked for the turkey neck as she was preparing the Thanksgiving meal. This slide was made from a bone in the turkey neck, a couple of small pieces of wood, and a couple of beads.
Orginal brand: October 2010 Build: 2016 Time to build: 1.5 hours While I was at Wood Badge the staff had a brand and I just happened to have a piece of leather. The result was a great start to this slide.
Picked up some time at Chesterfield Scout Reservation July 2010 Left to dry out and finally carved in the fall of 2016 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours I had some time to think about these and I really was unsure have how I wanted to finish these looking at the original Whittlin…
July 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour One of the last wood carving projects I remember seeing at Chesterfield Scout Reservation during summer camp was a slide I had carved just a few days before going to camp.
Hello out there in the ether...Is there anyone still out there? Well the time is right and I have finished my quest completing all the Whittlin Jim slides I am aware of. In the next few weeks I going to blog the ones I've yet to blog.
End June - Early July 2011 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour ...and now back to our regularly scheduled program. Whittlin' Jim did a few Northwestern slides and I think this design is one of the best! Doing some research on Northwestern Totems I came across this page as a good reference TOTEM POLES…
Mid June 2011 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour While technically not a slide, I needed to find something for my mother-in-law to bring back to my niece (especially when I had carved a slide for her brother.)
Mid June 2011 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour So recently my mother-in-law was visiting and telling me how much my Nephew was enjoying being a Cub Scout and was going to be in a Wolf Den this year.
Early June 2011 Time to carve: 3 hours Finishing: 3.5 hour Ssshhhhhh....If you know or correspond with Clarke Green don't let him know this is on the way to him...I want it to be a surprise. For those of you who have never heard of Clarke Green, his Scoutmaster blog , or the Scoutmaster podcast you…
Early June 2011 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour This past winter I had the opportunity to be in Lake Placid during the Empire States games. The place we were staying had old skis like these mounted on their wall.
Early Feb./End May 2011 Time to carve: 10 hour Finishing: .5 hours While many have heard of the Aztec and Maya civilizations, there was another civilization in South America called the Zapotecs who were also highly developed. They had developed a calendar, a system of writing, and organized bureaucratic structure.
Early Feb./Mid May 2011 Time to carve: 2 hour Metal work: .5 Finishing: .5 hours This slide was half done back in February when I put down my knifes for a while but when I picked it up in May all I could think of was Sir Robin.
