Post #291133 by Howland on Sun, Mar 11, 2007 7:50 PM

Side tracked today (gotta do the 'quality' time thing every now and then, ya know)--no carving progress today.

Thanks Flynny. "real ambitious" can translate to OVER ambitious, so it seems with this project anyway.

G-no decision on paddles or spears but I like your idea of doing both.

If that doesn't help, try singling out the evil chisel and humiliating it in front of his peers. I've done this with some success.

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Thanks BK. I have many fond memories of Mrs. Stalk's class. I was one of her 'star students' I guess and could get away with practically anything with her. She kept me and a couple of other classmates back in the kiln room during class--kind of a 'do your own thing' set up-as long as we took our tests and did our art assignments. I miss her! (but don't miss NAHS at all!!)

Benz, I like those overused words--makes me strive for more. I gotta get a hook knife for sure. I've read some of your (and others) posts on hook knife use and I think I could give it a go. Went to our local Woodcraft store a couple of months ago and the person helping me had never heard of a hook knife. After I shooed them away, I bought a few knives that looked vaguely similar to the pics I remembered seeing of the hook knives. Turns out they are CHIP carving knives. They get used occasionally-just probably not correctly.

AS, thanks for the comps, bro. I actually bought a new x-acto 2 days ago, loaded up a blade and started in for the cut--and chickened out. Don't know why--seems like it would work fine. I think I may give that a try on some scrap wood and see how I feel with it.

BK-I'm filing all these tips and tricks away in the back of my head and if you ever saw me in person you'd see that I have a HUGE head so you guys keep throwin 'em at me--I've got plenty of storage space for them. Hurrying is a bad thing and I'll attribute at least half of my cuss marks to that.

Hope to have progress with new pics Mon. night--fingers crossed.
Brad