[Woodcarver] Re, My First Cowboy Carving....

[Corey Hallagan]

Thank you Joe, I appreciate it!

Corey

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Joe Dillett
<jdillett at thecarvingshop.net>wrote:


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> That cowboy is sure looking good. Great job.

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corey Hallagan" <

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> Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 11:13 AM

> Subject: Spam:***, [Woodcarver] My First Cowboy Carving....

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>> *This one carving was a lot of firsts for me. First cowboy, first large

>> figure (9 1/2 inches tall) first one with both hands out of the pockets

>> and

>> first carving with attaching a separate hand ( pistol hand),first time

>> attaching something to a carved hand (whiskey bottle) and first carving

>> that

>> I have spent 2 weeks working on .

>>

>> He is 9 1/2 inches tall buy approx 2 3/4 wide and carved from basswood.

>> This

>> piece of wood carved fantastic and weighs practically nothing. I cut the

>> pattern out on the band saw from one of Harold Enlow's books and then

>> modified it and fitted a separate hand with a pistol in it which I lost a

>> lot of sleep over wondering if I would screw it up. I was happy with that

>> result. Also added a whiskey bottle carved in 2 pieces from birch dowell

>> stock.

>>

>> I wanted to make him look mean and have a sneer on his face. I am calling

>> it

>> "Looking For Trouble" Not sure if I pulled that off or not we will see

>> what

>> it looks like painted but overall I am really happy with this carving and

>> will paint him up soon. I think I will be adding whiskers to his face. I

>> will mount this one on a base when done I think. I am also hooked on

>> cowboys

>> now!

>>

>> You can view it here:  http://iowacarver.tripod.com/id5.html

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>> *

>> ** *Thanks for looking as always!*

>>

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>> Corey

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