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End March 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour It's funny, when I go looking for wood it always seems to be in the strangest places. A couple of weeks ago, I was in Vermont on business at one of our sites and stopped into a local hardware store.
Mid March 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hour I wasn't too sure about this one... it seemed too easy. Well I started to make this slide out of pine but it didn't work out so well because the wood kept giving me raw edges in certain spots.
Mid March 2010 Time to carve: 0 hours Leather work: 2 hours Finishing: 0 hour And now for something completely different...no carving or woodwork. The only thing necessary to do with the wooden dowel was to cut it to size and glue the leather to it.
Late Feb. 2010 Time to carve: 3 hours Other work: 1.5 Finishing: 1.5 hour This slide has special significant for our family. While looking for some wood for "the herd", I contacted my mother-in-law to see if my father-in-law had any cherry.
Late Feb. 2010 Time to carve: .5 hours Finishing: 1 hour It's funny how sometimes oppertunity strikes. Just as I was finishing with the last couple of members of "the Herd", I broke a bandsaw blade. Oddly enough, it just so happened I needed a part of a blade for my next slide.
Mid Feb 2010 Time to carve: 18 hours Finishing: 6 hour I began thinking that I really wanted to come up with something special for my 50th slide and checking the packet I am working from the "Philippine Water Buffalo" was the next in line.
End Jan 2010 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing:1 hour With next week being Scout Sunday, I thought I would make something to wear especially for this occasion. Starting with a scrap of pine I glued the pattern on and fired up the scroll saw to cut out the outline.
Mid Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours It's been a very long week at work and this is the third slide I've carved. (Late to bed and early to rise make it so you can't open your eyes-unknown.)
The last time I saw a surfboard like this one was back in the 60's on some TV show (maybe The Monkees). I doubt you would find one like this long board anywhere on the waves anymore. Carved from pine the board is a quick carve.
Mid Jan. 2010 Time to Carve: 0 hours Finishing: 2 Hours Really there was no carving involved in these two slides. Now normally I like to spend time carving because it relaxes me but this project was all scroll saw, sandpaper, and paint.
Mid Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Another fun slide to make!. The cannon is made from a 5/8 inch dowel, as is the wheels, and the case of the cannon is from scrap poplar. The cross piece, that swivels under the brass fittings, is a 1/8 dowel glued in place…
Mid Jan. 2010 Time to carve 1.5 hours Finishing 2 hours The name fits this slide in so many ways but more on that latter. The body, made from poplar, of this slide was an easy carve but the head called for a chestnut.
Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing 2 hours After making the block house, I was happy to see this log cabin had notched logs like I would have expected. Pine forms the base to glue the pieces and I used simple wood glue.
Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve:1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours An interesting slide to do because it is the underside of the painted turtle and not the top that is being displayed. In fact, I was asked by my wife why I was doing the underside and my son was quick to answer the question.
Early Jan. 2010 Time to Carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Faces, oh how I hate to do faces! Carved from poplar, I struggled with this one as I tried to get the face looking like the pattern. When I finished the carving I discovered that I messed up the cap and the mouth.
Mid Dec. 2009, Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 1.5 Finishing: 2.5 I must admit that I really didn't like this slide when I started it and that is why I let it sit for several weeks before I finished the slide.
Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 By far the largest slide in my collection measuring in at 6 inches from pincher to bottom (longer if you include the antennas). This slide has had mixed reactions. My son thinks this is "kwel" while my wife and daughter had the same reaction...
Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 3 hours Finishing: 2 hours This is a one piece slide. Now what I mean by this is the loop is carved into the slide from the same piece of maple as used for the fish.
Early Jan. 2010 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hours There is something about this slide (mmmmmm....Bacon) that I truly love. Carved from pine, it took a couple of tries to get the eggs and bacon right as I began to cut away the wood from the pan.
Jan 2010 Time to carve:0 hours Metal Work: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Thin copper on a scrap piece of pine. The design is something call a Scout Knott which I printed out and glued to the copper. Taking a small blunt nail and tracing the design by taping the nail into the copper foil…
Early to Mid Dec 2009 Time to carve: 5 hours Finishing: 2.5 After a couple of easy slides I tackled this on and boy was this a challenge. Now you would normally look at a project like this one and say 'that doesn't look that hard' well it is a lot more time consuming than…
Early Dec. 2009 Time to carve: .5 Hours Finishing: 1 hour Well even less carving with this one (just notching the dowels) but the interesting part of this slide was stretching the piece of leather on the frame. After making the frame and cutting the leather to look like an animal hide, the sewing took…
Late Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hour Finishing: 1 hour Really an easy slide to carve and paint. (There is really not much more to say on this one.)
Late Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1 hour Funny story about this slide. I carved it out of pine and gave it a couple of coats of gloss black paint. But when I went to attach the "coat hanger" slide back into the holes I drilled in the back of the slide…
Late Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 Hours Yo, ho, hum and a bottle of...well in my case a bottle of Diet Coke. (I really should drink Coke before bed.) Carved in pine with a 1/4 inch dowel glued to the flag.
End Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hour Leather work: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours The base of the slide is pine with a 3/4 in hole drilled through it and painted white. The leather drum top and bottom is made from some thin leather sewed with some waxed thread.
End Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Leather work 1 hour Finishing 1 hour While it was an easy task to carve a quick axe the task of making a small leather sheath for the axe was something quite different.
A book? How would that look? End Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours Well, I carved this one out of poplar and when I was finished I hated to paint this one because it looked so good.
Early Dec. 2009 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours An interesting project combining some tricky carving with a different kind of finish. The mutable levels integrate to form the knot of the pretzel. The slide has a yellow base coat, brown wash, and a coat of poly.
Mid Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours A motor boat? Hmmmm...this looks intresting. The boat itself is carved from pine and the motor is made from poplar.
Mid Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hours Somewhere in the back of my mind there is a special place for thoes B-movies I watched as a child. For all of you too young to have seen these make sure to rent "When Worlds Collide", "Plan 9 from Outer Space", or "Abbott…
Mid Nov. 2009 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours So simple and yet what a great looking slide! The pick is two pieces (handle and head) and the shovel is one piece. The loop is braided mason cord. I painted the piece with craft paint and coated with poly.
Mid Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: .5 hours Metal work: 1.5 Finishing: 2 hours One of the things I enjoy about making these slides is the many different methods used to create wonderful projects. This is one of those projects that I am just amazed with the simple methods used to make what looks like…
Mid Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: 3 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours Another carving in basswood with unsual angles and places to hollow out. Painted with a textured (black stone) spray paint and then hand painted details with a small paint brush.
Mid Nov. I doubt there is anyone who is carved who hasn't at some point cut themselves. Now by this time I have had my share including one very bad cut a while ago. With this in mind I got an early birthday from my family...
Early Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: .5 hours Finishing: 2 hours Not much to carve here but an interesting slide just the same. The bow was a live branch from a maple tree that I stripped of the bark and bent ahead of time.
Early Nov. 2009 Time to Carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours Carved from basswood the Old Oil Lamp kept me busy trying not to break the lamp handles. The filler cap was added after the lamp was carved and is nothing more than a round tooth pick glued into a hole I drilled.
End Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours I was using a large dowel for something else and had some left over. What can I do with this ... Totem Pole! Carving the basic shape of the heads didn't take much time but cutting the mouths now that is another story.
End Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 2.5 hours Finishing: 2 hours I was a little torn on making this one. On one hand this looks too much like a hand grenade (at a quick glance) for comfort. On the other hand ...
End Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hours Finishing: 2 hours Basswood was my choice for this one and it proved once again to be a good one for carving the details. Unfortunately, it was not a good choice for the loop and the back broke while I was carving the slide.
End Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hours Gluing: 4 hours Finishing: .5 hours I liked making the block house because it was a change from what I have been doing so far. Behind the "logs" you see on the slide is a piece of pine that forms the base of the slide.
End Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours A two part slide, the African Masai Shield was easy to make and challenging to paint. The shield was made with a scrap piece of basswood and the spear is some left over 1/8th wooden dowel with a brass point.
Mid Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hours Finishing: 3 hours I saw this pattern in the packet I have and thought 'Wow I remember my old scout book had directions on how to build pack frames'. This would be a great addition to my slides.
Mid Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 10 hours Finishing: 2 hours The Peachstone Monkey was one of the hardest slides I had made to date. I started to make this slide using a hardwood "egg" found at Michaels. This proved to be disastrous and almost made me give up on this slide.
Mid Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 3 hours Finishing: 2 hours Back to poplar, after my experience with the Carved Eagle, for the Flying Mallard side. The body and wing are made with two different pieces of wood and the grain runs differently for each to take advantage of the strength.
Mid Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 3 hours Finishing: 2.5 hours Carved Eagle was my next project and I decided to try something new. I enlarged the drawing in the pattern so it would be the size of the slide.
Mid Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 3 hours Metal work: .5 hours Finishing: 2 hours My is really into Archery and I wanted to make him a slide about this great hobby. I was also asked by our committee chair if I would consider making a slide for a prize at the Scout meeting.
Early in Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 2 hours Finishing: 4 hours I'm tired of brass and trying to think of what to carve next. While in my son's room one morning, I notice some plastic Easter Island Heads he has on a shelf and I remember a pattern for a similar slide.
Early Oct. 2009 Time to Carve: 1 hours Metal work: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1.5 hours OK I admit it ... I saved some bits of brass from the other projects. Back to the patterns I go to find another project that uses brass and there it is ...
Late in Sept. 2009 Time to Carve: 0 hours Metal work: 1.5 hours Finishing: 1 hours Coming off a personal victory with the Brass Pipe Tomahawk, I decided to try another brass project (since I still had some brass left).
