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6th September 2010, 10:59 PM #1
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Frog stick
Every now and then I come across a stick in the bush that just screams out to be carved onto something special. The trouble is, I don't speak 'stick' very well and sometimes I have to wait and think about it for quite a while before I get the message about what I'm supposed to carve on it.
The following was one of those sticks. I wish I'd photographed it before I started carving it. I actually held onto it for amost a year before deciding on the little frog. The wood is pink gum. The handle had two odd projections at ninety degrees to the shaft and both of them were in the same plane as the handle and the shaft. As I said.. most unusual.
Anyway here it is. The frog gets lost a bit in the grain and colour of the wood but the impulse to paint it (the frog) to make it stand out was fortunately I came to my senses very quickly.
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7th September 2010, 01:27 AM #2
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Great looking stick. The frog was a good choice. I love it when what we carve looks like it belongs there.
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7th September 2010, 06:13 AM #3
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Great work!
Those special bits of stick don't come up all that often, sometimes inspiration is quick, sometimes worth waiting for. This was definitely worth the wait.
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7th September 2010, 06:31 PM #4
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Great lokking stick Whittling!!!
My wife would love that because she likes frogs.
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7th September 2010, 07:06 PM #5
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I think you speak stick fine with work like that. Wish I could carve like that. Well done keep up the good work Whittling.
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12th September 2010, 12:36 AM #6
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I like it
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13th September 2010, 09:14 AM #7
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Very impressive. I don't think I would ever envision that there was a frog in the wood waiting to come out. Amazing what a bit of imagination can do. Looks great.
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13th September 2010, 09:46 AM #8
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Me either. Love it.
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Cheers John
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13th September 2010, 10:49 AM #9
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Thanks guys.
It didn't hang around long. Sold it this weekend at the local Craft Fair. I'm almost sorry. I think I would have liked to keep it for a while but the lady forced me to sell by shoving money in me hand...
She has agreed to let me have it back in order to enter it in the carving competion at the upcoming Agricultural show.
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