[Woodcarver] great NEW SUBJECT(chat); what was your first ,your funniest andyour mostdifficult carving you made

[Joe Dillett]

>1)what was your first carving you ever made?

>

>2)what was the funniest carving you ever made?

>

>3)what was the most difficult carving you ever made or

>what did you struggle the most with when carving, how

>did you solve it?

>

>haroun from finland

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Hi Harry,

1) The first one I remember was a small pirate's chest complete with skull 
and cross bones, out of a couple of fir 2 X 4's when I was in the 3rd grade 
with my new dull pocket knife. My dad and brother told me that I carved 
faces on rockes before than, with my dad's cold chisels and hammer, but I 
don't remember. Playing in the woods I whittled spears, guns and tomahawks 
and buildt forts. Those are wonderful memories. I can still remember the 
smell of the woods and the sound of birds and the wind through the trees.

2) Funniest, I have to think about. I made a whole series of knots hole 
spirit carvings that were full of humor.

3) I think that the most difficult was a relief of a chick coming out of an 
egg. Between working full time, coaching my son's little league team and 
other activities there wasn't much time left for carving. Sometimes with a 
week between carving secessions I would forgot how I did a certain technique 
and my new technique didn't match one from a week ago I would have to redo 
the old area. It was a frustrating few months of carving.

Joe Dillett
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Merrilee Johnson" <merrihat at hotmail.com>
To: <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 9:20 AM
Subject: RE: [Woodcarver] great NEW SUBJECT(chat);what was your first ,your 
funniest andyour mostdifficult carving you made



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> Hi Harry!

>   Good question and it will be interesting to hear from others.  My first 

> carving was a walnut walking stick with flowers on a vine around it.  A 

> friend got me started on it and it could be the hardest one also cause my 

> tools were cheap and dull :-)!

>   But the one I have had the hardest time with is a free standing relief 

> cross I started a 1 1/2 years ago.  It is almost done - I just have to 

> mount it and give it away!  I was asked to do this for a friend of my 

> mother when she gave him a chip cross I had done.  He wanted one that was 

> 15 to 18" tall and was told to do what I wanted in design.  I spent a lot 

> of that year thinking about it (trying to find a design I liked but also 

> worrying that they like it )- a lot!!  But now its done and I am pretty 

> proud of it and will be a bit sad when it is gone.  But then again it is 

> going on a childrens alter so it will have a good home!  So that's good. 

> To finish your question,the way I dealt with the difficulty was to ask 

> lots and lots of people their opinion of what I was doing and how I could 

> improve it. I have used that help to improve, change and alter my cross so 

> it is very good now.  And now before I leave - I want to say a GREAT big 

> THANK YOU to the many people that have talked with me about this project! 

> You have helped make it!

> Merrilee

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>

>>1)what was your first carving you ever made?

>>

>>2)what was the funniest carving you ever made?

>>

>>3)what was the most difficult carving you ever made or

>>what did you struggle the most with when carving, how

>>did you solve it?

>>

>>haroun from finland

>

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