Post #227431 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Apr 19, 2006 12:50 AM

Other than some sanding and a lot more sanding, this one was finished yesterday.

It took me three tries to get the chest down far enough so that it looked reasonable. For this, I used a chainsaw and sanded away the deepest blade marks. It will look fine after finish sanding.

I rough cut the body with a chainsaw. Then I got it closer with a 2" flat chisel. I finally went over it with a manual hand planer?(cheese grader looking tool with handles on both ends for teeter totter shaving of the corners down to graceful curves-I don't know the actual name)I wanted to make sure that when I looked at it straight on, I could see the indentations on each side where the back of the knee is. the planer worked perfect for this and I was quite pleased with the results.

I spent a good deal of time after I got the body to look right finishing up the face and the mouth. I bought a new set of flexcut gouges a couple weeks back and they made all the difference in making the details as well as helping with the material removal in the back of the mouth. Any imperfections left at this point will be removed or fixed during my final sanding. My dremel tool will come in handy for doing this.

I can't wait to stain it and see how it finally turns out. It's always an adventure and I'm almost done with this one...
NEXT!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2006-04-19 00:54 ]

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2006-04-19 02:19 ]