Thread: Any Suggestions??

I'd be inclined to mount your 'fish' onto a contrasting board and the dials on that board. Isolating the two would look an after thought, and not a planned display, I think.

soth

It would be a shame to cover up the grain.
Looks like you will have to put the dials on a board below the fish.

l would cut them in l know it nice grain but you don't wont it getting to big ,or maybe cut a banner shape piece with the dials in it and hang the fish under it .l wouldn't go a backing board look to much like a mounted fish a bit corny looks good waiting to it finished

I wouldn't go for a board below, I reckon a backing board like a trophy mount would be a better option.

Not only would it give you somewhere to mount the doodads but there's a reason that trophy mounts are the shapes they are: they allow it to be hung on a wall and display the piece to best advantage.

Hi Scally,
The carving looks great so far, and its beautiful timber! Certainly would be a bit of a shame to whack the gauges in it.
How about doing something a bit different, like imbedding each dial in a seperate turned piece of the timber, maybe different diameters, then mount them seperately on the wall, coming from the mouth of the fish, like bubbles!! Hangs it all together and its a weather wall!

Cheers, look forward to the finished piece,

Thanks fellas
All good ideas.

I will have a bit of a scribble but I can’t see the dials going in the fish.

A framed backing board might look OK.

I had thought about trying to joining the backing boards with wavy joins – trying to give a bit of a water look. Bubbles got in there somewhere. The bubble-dials coming out of the fish’s mouth sounds interesting – Thanks Andy Mac.

The fish is pretty big already – about 1m long and 500mm wide. Any backing board or frame is going to make it all huge. I wonder how I can make it look less massive?

And find timber suitable as a background?

It seemed such a simple idea too.

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Bubbles! How lateral of you...

Small round backing boards just big enough to mount each doover, joined together with thin dowels?

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Bubbles! How lateral of you...

Small round backing boards just big enough to mount each doover, joined together with thin dowels?

makes it look a bit kids room

You should have done a flathead, the timber has the eyes in the grain just right for it.

Nice fish anyway.

Al

The flathead I caught on the weekend would be way too small.

I have done a bit more shaping on the snapper but not sure what to do next, yet.

If I put the clocks in front of the fish the whole thing is too long.

If I put them below the fish it is too busy.

I am thinking of mounting the fish on a thick ply board. I have some good veneered ply with a wavy pattern (if you have a good imagination).
The top of the head and the back fins of the fish would extend above the ply. The idea is for it to look like the fish is partly out of the water.

Above the ply I might add another/contrasting sheet of ply with the dials in a row above the fish.

Then hold it all together in a frame.

It looks alright laying on the floor of the garage.

For what's worth, this is how I see it. Still plenty of grain showing and no tacky attachments.
Cheers
Frank

It is to be a wall piece?

Perhaps it could be free standing, with the dials set into the back? Hmmm... maybe not.

I reckon Andy Mac's idea's a ripper. SWMBO (the artistic one) says

No backing board on fish, just fish straight to wall then dials mounted on matching timber backing discs for the dials (to tie it together) as "bubbles" floating from the fish's mouth. She says it will have good "wow factor"

Timber fish on Timber backing board will lose the cleverness of the carving.

In time you could carve the rest of the school and have them "exiting" the wall in different positions as if the wall was water. i.e. just the tail fins and head of another fish as it bends thru the wall.

SWMBO says paint the wall a stunning blue for a feature and you've got something that will knock your socks off.

(but that's her way of turning a small project into a massive renovation! She can do it everytime. What is it with women?)

sf