[Woodcarver] New Little Guy

[Corey Hallagan]

Thanks Karen! BLO is short for Boiled Linseed Oil.  Sorry I shouldn't do
that! Give a figure a try. Most folks like to start with little figures,
check out Jack Prices book Carving Small Caricatures
http://www.littleshavers.com/All_Books/20175.jpg. You won't waste a lot of
wood either as they are carved out of 1 x 1 sticks.

Corey

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:33 AM, <kpollak at comcast.net> wrote:


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> Hey Corey,

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> I really like the face in butternut great job!!! I have to ask a question

> since I am fairly new to computer lingo or maybe it is painting language but

> what is BLO mean????  I went back to the midwest so did just a little chip

> carving since it is easy to just have one knife and a few pieces of wood

> made some coasters and gave them all away to family members but did not get

> any picts of them. One of these days I will have to give a try to a figure

> cause I really like your farmer guy like I said reminds me of some of my

> neighbors. Keep those picts a comin'.

>

> Karen (spit)

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> From: "Corey Hallagan" <iowawoodcarver at gmail.com>

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> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:41:09 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

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> Thanks Loren, I appreciate it!

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> Corey

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> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Loren Woodard <lorenwoodard at charter.net>wrote:

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>>  Corey:

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>> I like your farmer.  I’m late looking but the trip was worth it.

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>> Loren

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>> *From:* woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com [mailto:

>> woodcarver-bounces at carverscompanion.com] *On Behalf Of *Corey Hallagan

>> *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:44 AM

>> *To:* Woodcarvers

>> *Subject:* [Woodcarver] New Little Guy

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>> Well the wife and daughter are away for the weekend and I had yesterday

>> off so no honey-doo for me this weekend. I had been working on a little

>> generic pattern and yesterday I cut this out as I wanted to see if the

>> pattern as I had it would work on the bandsaw. I didn't envision it being

>> this skinny as this was to be a test for a larger piece. I cut it out and

>> man was he skinny. I sat down and just started carving it and I decided

>> halfway through to make it a farmer. I think it turned out ok. He is about 4

>> inches tall without the base. The blank was cut out of a 2 x2 basswood and

>> it was carved on the base. Finished in acrylics, BLO and satin lacquer. You

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

>> looking as always!

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