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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.<br><br>
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.
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I'll probably be uploading a new picture in the next day or
two.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
I'm also about to start teaching another Adult Ed 6-week Right Brain
Drawing class next week. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
Thanks, Matt, for getting this started!<br><br>
Marcia (aka Mush)<br>
South China, Maine<br>
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