Thread: Bull ant

Nice work Freddy

Ugh. Did many, many bush field trips in the 4 yr PhD days at LaTrobe. So awful dang glad that my tent had a floor and zipped up tight! Still, nobody here knows about bull ants. Fire ants are familiar to most in the S half of the US.
Neat carving.
I recall several really iconic lizards ('pine cone?', 'Stumpy tail?') Ever consider those?

Yes bull ants have a nasty sting , the next carving I want to do is a frilly neck lizard and I know it will be much harder than the carvings I m doing now as it will be more 3D, and to find the right carving wood, oh well being self taught I guess I will find out, cheers freddy

You will be just fine. Take the time to learn some woods. I got 2 very intense weekends with a full time professional carver and that was it, maybe 20 years ago. Western Red Cedar is the multipurpose tree of the Pacific Northwest native communities, every part is used. Probably one of the world's worst possible choices for carving wood. I like it. Mind you, I figure that it took me 5 years of carvings to learn what works and what will split away to be lost in the mess on the shop floor.