[Woodcarver] Even at this unnatural hour ...

[Marcia Berkall]

LOL  I just have to chuckle when "fearless leader" hits the wrong 
button :)  There are times when I might have caught you on the other 
end of the day...carving into the wee hours of the morning.

I'm up to my eyeballs in work.  I'm still working on the life size 
Maine Coon Cat carving.  This has been a real stretch for me.  (I 
love commissions for that reason.)  Never have I done so much 
texturing!  I hope to have that finished in the next few days, then 
turn my attention to painting it.   I got side tracked from this 
carving for a while due to my husband's surgery back in October and 
then the holiday stuff.  Fortunately this client has a "whenever it's 
ready" mentality about it, for which I am eternally grateful!  I set 
up a blog for her to watch the progress, slow as it 
is. 
http://cahvah.wordpress.com/home/maine-coon-cat-carvingin-progress/ 
I'll probably be uploading a new picture in the next day or two.

I have also completed another veteran's cane and am working on a wood 
spirit with a 250-year-old slab of wood that was raised from the 
bottom of the Penobscot River.  It's part of a wood recovery program 
and this carving will become part of the heritage foundation 
collection.  The theme has to be either Native American or logging 
related.  I'm discovering some solutions for working with this old 
brittle wood and am documenting the progress for,hopefully,a future 
Carving Magazine Article.

I'm also about to start teaching another Adult Ed 6-week Right Brain 
Drawing class next week.

As for strop compounds, I haven't tried the green compound. I've 
pretty much stuck with the silicon carbide in oil suspension that one 
of my favorite knife makers uses.  I guess I'm of the opinion that 
whatever works for you is the best one.  That one doesn't work well 
on the buffing wheel, so I might give the green compound a try for that.

Thanks, Matt, for getting this started!

Marcia (aka Mush)
South China, Maine

See Marcia's wood carvings 
at: 

http://whittlinsnwood.com
Blog: http://cahvah.wordpress.com/
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