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Back in November, I began to feel like my quest was becoming a bit too automatic and I had become machine like producing the slides. I took a break for the holidays thinking I would start up again in January and find my grove again.
Mid April 2011 Time to carve: none Finishing: Unknown It was pleasure to be presented with this Pinewood Derby racer at a recent race during Pack 8's Pinewood derby. I love the details of the slide and marvel at it's simplicity of its construction.
End Dec. 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 A day off,a piece of really hard maple and a lot of fun to carve. I've been looking forward to carving this slide for a while because one of my favorite memories as a boy was the pond across the street from my house.
Mid Dec. 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 2 With new band saw blade in place, I roughed this slide out and set forth carving. When finished and sanded, I hated to even think about painting this slide. I was so good looking in it's natural state.
Mid Dec. 2010 Time to carve: ,5 hours Finishing: 1.5 My band saw blade broke and while I was waiting for a replacement to come in, I found this slide in my pile. OK, I don't need anything fancy for this one, just a dowel, my knee (to break the dowel with), thin plywood,and a…
Early Dec. 2010 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 "If you can't whittle this one, your just not a whittler..." wrote Whittlin Jim. Well, sure it was easy to carve but on the other hand ... Carved from maple with the teeth carved separately and glued on later.
Mid Nov. 2010 Time to carve: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hours The second Order of the Arrow slide I've done and it is my understanding that members of the Los Angeles OA made these back when Whittlin Jim published this slide.
Early Nov. 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Metal work: 1.5 hours Finishing: .5 I was in one of my favorite hardware stores one day and noticed they carried small sheets of heavier gauged copper than what I had at home.
Mid Nov. 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Other work: 1.5 hours Finishing: .5 Some times I look at a slide and I not so sure I am going to like it when it is done. This is one of thus slides but I was so wrong because this is really a great slide!
Early Nov. 2010 Time to carve:2 hours Finishing: 1 hour Multiply pieces to carve with this slide. The first is the piece of cheese which not only has two neckerchief holes on top merging into one hole one the bottom, but also a hole within a hole in which the head of the mouse is…
Late October 2010 Time to carve: 0 Hours Finishing: 2 Hours The ring is made from a 2 1/4 PVC cap, I had hanging around my workshop, I cut the end off and sanded the edges. The top is made from some thin white leather cut in an X pattern with the center big enough…
Mid October 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Finishing: 2 hours When I look at the Georgina pattern last spring I thought, hey I seen that kind of brass compass this should be easy to make. The funny part is I looked and looked for one of those and could not find one no matter…
Sept. - Oct. 2010 Time to carve: 12 hours Finishing: .5 hours Sometimes there is a slide that just "kicks your butt" while your trying to make it. Well this is one of those slides. I roughed out the cylinder back in September then spent the next month trying to figure out how to carve this…
Late August 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: .5 hours An interesting slide because it raises an eyebrow when people see it but also scratching their heads when they see what it can do. Carved from maple and the dot attached with fishing line.
Sept. 2010 Time to carve: 3 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Now if you follow my inconstant posts, you might have wondered where have I been? Well the answer is that I've been busy with Wood Badge. In fact I write this on the eve before my second weekend.
A year ago... I was the new scout master of our troop I had just come back from Outdoor Leader Essentials training and I had found a passion of carving neckerchief slides Some reflections as I go forward... So far, cow horns are more difficult to find than I thought Butterball does not include neck…
Late August 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Finishing: .25 hours While not an Whittlin Jim pattern, I wanted to make this "Slide of the Month" for a Scout who earned his BSA Life Guard award this summer at camp.
End August 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1 hours One thing you notice when vacationing in Plymouth, MA, the gift stores have lots of lobster kick-knacks. So it was only fitting the next pattern in my pack was a lobster.
Mid August 2010 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Turning to basswood this time (because the piece I had was the right size)I struggled to try to get this slide to look right. As a result it is about half the size of the block I started with.
Mid August 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours Another case of more than one pattern for slide. The Water Buffalo finds its way to my carving knife again but with a slightly different twist on the horns.
Early August 2010 Time to carve: .5 hours Metal work: 1 hour Finishing: 2 hours It's funny to me that I always seem to have a couple of slides in the works at the same time and this is no exception.
Early August 2010 Time to carve: 5 hours Finishing: 2 hours This was a tricky slide to carve! Carved from maple for it's strength (and because I have a good supply, hollowing out the different areas necessary was hard to do.
Early August 2010 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours What an unusual slide! I started this slide a couple of times because I just could not get the opening in the mouth quite right. Each time I had to adjust the fish pattern to be larger than I was expecting.
Mid July 2010 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours Started this one at summer camp too...but just barely. Carved from maple it is one of the more unusual slides I've made. I had trouble visualizing this but as I carved I seemed to find my way.
Mid July 2010 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Well it's during the third camp of the month, (and the only one I'm staying at) I'm carving the Monkey slide. Now the thing that is really funny is while I packed my carving stuff, I forgot to bring any finished slides for a…
Early July 2010 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1 hour July is a busy month, so much going on between Scout camps and other camps. I started this slide while waiting for the closing ceremony of NYLT at Rotary Scout Camp.
Late June 2010 Time to carve: 6.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Aye, I been looking forward to carving this one. Carved from maple it is a mix of a chip and finished carving. Though roughed out on the band saw, there was quite a bit of carving involved with this slide.
Late June 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Leather work: 1 hour Finishing: .5 hour I have had this slide in the back of my mind for a while now but couldn't seem to find the right flashlight. Then when helping my daughter clean her room, I came upon a little flashlight that would be…
Late June 2010 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour OK, I got tp to admit this one is a bit weird. I mean the thought of wearing a tooth around one's neck. Made from Maple, roughed it out on the band saw and began the process of shaping the tooth.
Late June 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Beading: 4 hours Finishing: 0 hour Looking ahead to the next few patterns, I saw the Peyote Beading slide and wondered what design to make. Also on my mind was the Wood Badge class I will be taking in the fall.
Mid June 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour A funny cartoon kind of slide that was easy to make. Carved from maple, there is really nothing really hard about this slide. The arrow is a bamboo food skewer that is passed through a hole drilled in the head and glued in place.
Mid June 2010 Time to carve: 5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour GOB? What's a GOB? As it turns out, according to an online dictionary, it is slang for a sailor. (go figure) Another sailor pattern from Whittlin Jim and I set off on this slide with a big piece of maple.
Early June 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour ...and now for something completely different. An easy project with feathers. Yeah, I got to admit I had my doubts on this one but I kind of like how it turned out.
Early June 2010 Time to carve: 6.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour Whittlin Jim wrote how he had read "AKU-AKU,The Secert of Easter Island" while in Hawaii and was inspired. Hmmm...I thought...this the second Easter Island Stone head pattern he had done.
Mid May 2010 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour When I was looking for a piece of wood for this slide, I knew it had to be a hardwood but try as I might, I didn't have a thick enough piece.
Mid May 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour With the deadline for the deposit for a Wood Badge class I am going to take, I had an idea for my next slide. Now I don't know just which patrol I will be in but this slide might my critter.
Early 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Metal work: 2 hours Finishing: 0 hours Also while in Mystic, I picked up a couple of arrowheads at a gift shop with a few different slides. I been waiting to make this slide for awhile now and the arrowhead was the last missing piece.
Early May 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour ...meanwhile. This slide was carved from a 1 1/2 inch poplar dowel. The center is made using a "chip" method while the top and bottom is finished. Painted with craft paints then the seeds and stem (from a real apple) are glued in place.A…
Early May 2010 Time to carve:2.5 hours Finishing:.5 Another slight diversion but a very useful one. While in Mystic, I picked up a book on carving Wood Spirits and with a request from my wife decided to give it a try.
April 1, 2010 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing:4 hours An extremely hard slide to carve since it has intricate materials that have traveled between here in Mass to Florida so many times... Sorry a late April fool's joke on my sister-in-law.
Mid April 2010 (End Jan. 2010) Time to carve: 3 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour OK, so why the two different months? Well back when I was starting the Pueblo Indian Pottery, I started to create this from memory. My memory failed me in this case because when I took a look at the pattern I…
Late April 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour I thought about this slide ever since deciding to take Wood Badge training. The hardest part was finding the right "log" for the slide. I wanted a birch "log" but to cut a live branch I would need to wait it to dry out.
Late April 2010 Time to carve: .5 hours Other work: 1 Finishing: 1.5 hour Made from some very thin birch plywood, the OA and the arrow were cut out and sanded. The W's were made from brass, basically cut out using tin snips, and filed to a finish.
Late April 2010 Time to carve: 1 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Next in my list was Pedro's Lucky shoe was the next slide in line and after doing the Pedro - His Mark slide it was an easy one to visualize.
Mid April 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Other work: 1 Finishing: 1 hour After spending some time in Mystic CT and seeing one of the largest Sailor's Rosette I had ever seen, I was reminded of a Whittlin Jim slide pattern.
Kudos to halfeagle.com one of the coolest list of Scouter blogs I have ever seen. Also a great blog called Scoutmaster with good information and podcasts that I am looking forward to listening to when I get home. (On vacation right now and have a slide I am going to make based on a large…
Early to Mid April 2010 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 1 hour At 7 1/2 inches this is the largest slide I have carved to date. (Actually the Giant Titanus Beetle is larger but that is just because of the antennas.)
Late Late March - Early April 2010 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 1 hour I like slides, sometimes, that don't require a loop to be attached to the back of it. The neckerchief simply passes through the body of the slide.
End March 2010 Time to carve: .5 hours Finishing: 1 hour One of the easiest slides I have made thus far! I had some thin pile wood scrap around (from another project) and a quick trip around with a jig saw did the trick.
End March 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour Delicate does not begin to describe this project. I had to pick wood that would not crack or break while I carved out the fine details of this slide.
