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Thanks Claw
This has added fuel to my desire to try marble. Are the classes regular/yearly?

Nice work and thanks for posting.

The brief here is for a night club, not a gallery or museum.
And wether it's paper mache, fiberglass or carving I would have thought supporting local industry would be at least considered.
Not all...

hey shedbound - On behalf of those of us trying to make a living - I hope white ants make a grand hotel in your finest wood! :banghead:


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A hardback I presume?
Nice idea - keep us up to date with the pages!

Thanks again everyone - starting to blush here.

I have to laugh at the people who leave the gallery saying "really love the goon bag". I could have made it so easy on myself. 6 arms - what an...

Thanks everyone - really appreciate it.
More angles..

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...and before you know it...viola!

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I don't have any CC, but I prefer your personal work as usual.

Nice work Derek.
I haven't tried carving with Sheoak - just looking at it makes me shudder a bit.
Nice grain though. Im impressed.

mmmmm.....sensual......if you know what I mean.

SSssshhhhhhh...you'll give the game away.

Nice work again. The scale looked big until the last picture provided a bit of context. Could see it as a large scale outdoor type of thing.
Looking...

Great!
I immediately thought of that Kenny Everett character....."and it was all done in the best possible taste".

You barstool!
A neatly choreographed sequence you make us ask to see, all coy like. NO EMOTICON FOR YOU!

Nice work - more realistic than the ones you get at Ikea....probably more natural too?
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Get into 'tong Rob!
Just watch for it's habit of splitting sometimes.:D

The wood is always dressed. usually because I'm working with small 'boards' that are often referred to as hobbyist kits. These are off the shelf from the suppliers. Very smooth, regular and even. if...

Whittling/RV...Hmmmm....I'm taken aback...

I will try to get something together but I'm not sure it will be that helpful as I really just apply glue and clamp them together. I haven't documented...

yes.
The last one Is going on my application for medical school.

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Thanks Rob
I imagine good huon is better than good jelutong??? However, it's the softest and fastest not frustratingest stuff I've used in a while.
I'm not the most gentle wood handler and I never...

Thanks RV,

I'm not apologising for gluing - it's a main component of the work. But I have these silly ethical conversations with myself (with an imaginary antagonist) that ponders how people would...

Thanks everyone - very kind words!


Tim: the hole in the forehead is pure aerodynamics!
You could also store a pen in there if used as a desk tidy. However, my original concern was a sort of...

Functions as a corporate paperweight and wards off those pesky pamphlet deliverers. Just in time for fathers day, though may best suit a cycling enthusiast.

Jellytong/WR cedar (which is supposed...

Gold!
love it!

Did you use Ukibora?

Thats the method I came up with, but couldn't see a seam. Then I wondered if there was some new fangle device to use.
I like a new fangle device.
Cheers for that.

Really nice shells as well.

Yep - very nice.

Be keen to know how you hollow the scabbard (if that's what it's called).

Look forward to seeing more.

Could just carve the legs too?

Just saying.:D

Studying anatomy (in the classical sense) makes the eye seem old, tired, dumb and forgetful - doesn't help at all.

And perhaps throw in a rib cage.

And if I was to be hyper critical...changer yer image compression technique. My eyesight isn't getting any better you know.:D

Where do you hang the towels?

A self portrait I presume?

It's a pretty good effort all round. I'd be tempted to soften the edges of the muscles a bit, so they are a bit more beneath the skin....

Wow - it's one constant learning curve around here.

At least I have found a use for all the jars of pee I've been stock piling. And people thought I was nuts!

Whittling poses a good question -...

Great stuff. Marvelous expression.

And what is fuming?

Very nice....could be dangerous in the wrong hands though.

Something I have been meaning to try as well. You make it look so tempting. I'd like to work that scale but my eyes are starting to protest.

Beautiful.

Does Le Tour pass your place this year?

I've said it before...fancy design shops for you!

I have never though of a fly as beautiful until now. I tried 'ukibori' on the swimmers arms, but it was a failure. Do you think hard wood is...

Yeah those eyes really add another dimension.
Good stuff Whittles!

Thanks all.

Yeah Rob, I knew it would be 'challenging'...and it is. Perhaps I'll bring out a line of 'Rods for your own back' when this is over. Has to be easier.
And yeah - end grain. The mother...

More arms - enough for everyone!


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Cheeky!

Getting there...been meaning to post an update...maybe I will.



Later.

and another thing - is there Huon and huon?

I have been using some that resembled oregon in it's toughness and not at all enjoyable. Every now and then there'd be a sweet spot. But for the most...

Nice Rob

Been a busy li'l beaver ey? Good way to deal with features as well.
I have come to the conclusion that carving smaller can be harder than larger - in some ways, but you have to find the...

She's lovely!

It would be nice to attend a carving class - the tyranny of that nullarbor.

Because you are kind of OK at this sort of thing:D...what would be the go with using a different...

RV, Mr Swallow won a very substantial amount of money while barely out of art school from a major sculpture prize. He took the money and got the hell out of Australia and hasn't looked back. Now...

I agree with everyone else.
While I don't like painted wood myself, the white ones seem to work in the contemporary white kitchens. What other people like is an eternal mystery, but the source...

Like the differing woods and techniques, textures etc. All beautifully done...but...in the spirit of CC...I don't like the articulation of the legs so much.
They look bowed under and suggest...

Whooooaaaa-oh-oh sweet huon pie-yiiiiiine

(apologies axel, slash et al.)

Im with RV on the oyster. How thin can you go on the wavy bits?

Very entrepreneurial and bloody practical! Lets go.


ps. I just spelled entrepreneurial without assistance.

Very musical and beautifully done.

A hat (for very small heads)????

Blessed are the cheese makers!

Every home should have one. Maybe we could do a deluxe set...key holder...towel rack (for really small towels)????

Chateaux Cardboard....leaves me furry mouthed rather than wooden.

I just needed to carve something non-anatomical for a bit. Felt like a holiday.

"It's good enough for me
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah"

C. Lauper


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Hope the reference makes sense to most of you. We call them goon bags. You may know them...