Post #514704 by Bay Park Buzzy on Wed, Mar 3, 2010 2:16 AM

Today's end:

TikiG: Here's the Belmont Park roller coaster right behind the Island we left the tiki on

Today's Carving progress:

I started the day by checking and seeing how close I got to where I needed to be with the chainsaw yesterday. The lack blines tell me where to go when I fix everything up and even it out:

I got real close! Only one will side have to be dealt with later, and only by a centimeter or so. The rest will be fixed in the next step. I"ll do that by hand

Meanwhile, Poki settled with her toys in on a pile of woodchips and saw dust:

The eventual result should be that all sides look even like this:

Two more to go...

By this time, Poki's worn out and napping on the saw dust

It's getting real close here:

At daylight's end, I was done with the cleaning up part. I measured all the leges to check myaccuracy. Out of twelve measurments, two were off half centimeter, one was off one cemntometer, amd that was the part I had to correct from the chainsaw drift. Those small amounts will not matter at all, so I got lucky, so far:

After a good rest, I started my evening of work.

First step was making a grid of it to transfer on to a stencil for the legs

I traced this on all six sides:

Flipped it over and knocked out the bottom cut out:

Then the middle one:

Now the top cut out and a little more profile work on the tops of each leg:

I need to lighten it up on the top a bit more before I do the last profile cuts on the bottom. I don't want to break off a foot moving it around when carving the rest of it, so I'll leave that last section there for a while.

Next I tapered in the bell bottom of the drum:

Then I ended the day after I started the interior drum hole:

I have to bore straight through at that diameter. Then the hole will end up exactly between the 3 support legs. After that hole busts through, I'll shape the inside of the drum bowl.

All that can wait until tomorrow...

Poki and I will back to the usual routine tomorrow.

Buzzy Out!