Thread: Frog Pie

This might be what you're waiting for. I had to test my apple pie again, just to make certain that piece #2 is as good as piece #1. It was.

Brilliant! Love the dish and the pie... (though I would have chosen cherry... but that's just me)

RV, nice work, another lovely functional carving. If you didn't live so far away I'd come round for a piece pie.

Thanks, Whittling. Scooter has been after me to try YC. It hangs together very well but it stinks.
Peculiar wood smell that I don't like.
I can do cherry but not much in our store here in Feb.
Hello will freeze over before I buy cherry pie filling.

I learned 3 things:
1. textured surfaces can cover a lot of sins.
2. really dramatic cutouts look good.
3. the very best frog head that I have ever carved. Man, it just "happened."
I must have been so far into right side, crooked knife in each hand and POOF!
There it was.

Thanks, Rob.
I'm finding satisfaction in carving dishes, containers. Have an umbrella stand WIP nearly done.
Always the same thing = when I can see it in the wood, the carving is easy.
Trying to find a tube of silicone that isn't all bunged up for the Umbrella thing.
I guess that, besides a place to put them, they are not supposed to drool all over the floor.

This Frog carving, I could care less about the whole thing except the head = I got what I wanted to see.
The pie is excellent. As usual. I've been doing that for decades longer than carving.

Come and visit. Good warm spare bedroom, help out with the groceries. All you need bring is dozens of pages of strong drawings for carving. We sort through the wood piles, pick out a chunk or three and away you go. Then you can bleep off through Jasper & Banff National Parks.

I am extremely disappointed in all of you.
Are there no cane toad jokes "BFSSSSSFPT" road kill jokes to go with this?
Just think! A new industry to employ thousands.
Everybody goes out at dawn to scoop(?) up a bunch of the RK.
Fling them up on the shed roof for 48 and there's no carving necessary!
Get with the program!

Personally, I have an absolutely ferocious attitude with respect to native OZ wild life.
I've seen enough of it to believe that all sorts of introduced vermin should be eradicated.
Give me just half a chance and I will do my very best. You want blood and guts? Hold my beer.
Watch this.

I will wear my dress shirt. It says:

"Two in the body and one in the head,
guarantees they're really dead."

As a note added in proof, I can buy CT skin pouches for my bluegrass banjo picks.
QLD export. You betcha. No Pac Rim nonsense involved.
Some body has to do it.

Nice design and contrast in the finish. I like it. I bet I would like the pie too !
Well done RV.

Thanks, copeau. It was a good opportunity to try a textured finish (first time) together with the smooth surface of the frog. I think that I will try to use that combination again.

You would like the pie, there's a little more sugar and cinnamon sprinkled on the top, just before baking. I have one of those kitchen appliances which can core, peel and slice an apple in one pass. Doing 7-8 apples for the filling is no chore at all.

Thanks for the invite RV, I would love to come and have a look at your part of the world but just a little problem with the $$$.
My son will be in Banff at the end of the year working at a ski resort. I'm a bit worried though what might happen if you don't like me,
I don't want two in the body and one the head

Hey! You're a wood carver, Rob. What's not to like?
Your only puzzle would be to pick out a bolt of wood to work on.

Ah yes, Banff. Lived and worked summers in Banff & Jasper for the Canadian Wildlife Service
back in my U'grad Uni days. Far different experience from the usual tourist facade that those
places put on, and I think that winter would be different again.

I recall that the word "banff" is a Gaelic term for "the mouth of the river."
The Bow River, I suppose.

We always claimed that if a rock climber slipped and fell and the rope broke,
"BAAAANFFFF!" was the sound they made when they hit the valley floor.

Hopefully, I get some hours today to work on a pair of Raven dishes in Yellow Cedar.
Did I post the Dragonfly Dishes in Westrn Red Cedar?
Frog Pie was a good one, the back legs from drawing to carving was the hard part.
I got the head the way I wanted to see it.