Time to carve: 2.5 hours
Finishing: 1.5 hours
A motor boat? Hmmmm...this looks intresting. The boat itself is carved from pine and the motor is made from poplar.
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This is a quest to make all the slides featured in the Whittlin Jim's "Slide of the Month" in Boy's Life magazine. (Hopefully without doing lasting damage to my hands or fingers.) Blogging my progress along the way. I completed my task in March of 2017 and now post my own designs along with some other "Slide of the Month" contributors.
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- Sunday Slide
- Pueblo Indian Pottery
- Surfboard
- Plaque Slides
- Pirate Cannon
- Little Stinker
- Lincoln Log Cabin
- Painted Turtle
- Gaff the Sailor
- Tepee
- Giant Titanus Beetle
- Speckled (rainbow) Trout
- Bacon & Eggs
- Copper Foil
- Locomotive
- Hide Frame
- Jenny Wren House
- Pedro-His Mark
- Jolly Roger
- Pueblo Indian Drum
- Axe in Sheath
- Scout Law Book
- The Pretzel
- Motor Boat
- Rocket Side
- Pick and Shovel
- Crosscut Saw
- Solomon Isle Carving
- Punctures, Cuts, and other avoidable injuries
- Fire Drill
- Old Oil Lamp
- Totem Pole
- Hand Grenade
- Blood Hound
- Block house
- African Masai Shield
- Pack Frame
- Peachstone Monkey
- Flying Mallard
- Carved Eagle
- Archery
- Eastern Island Stone Face
- Cider Keg
- Make This Sundial
- Brass Pipe Tomahawk
- Ball in cage with Links
- Old Zek
- Old Vet
- Carved Fist
- Derringer
- Scout Sign
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Who Was Whittlin Jim?
From http://www.historichalescorners.org/hchs4.htm
W. Ben Hunt (1888-1970) was born in the town of Greenfield, Wisconsin.
Ben Hunt was a leader in the outdoor movement and in the reintroduction of pioneer skills. He introduced subjects such as rustic woodworking, whittling and carving, metal working, and historic Indian crafts and lore as hobbies and handicrafts for fun and leisure-time activities. He was involved with the Boy Scouts on a local and national level.
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- Years ago, when I was a Boy Scout, I would wait impatiently for the next issue of Boy's Life just so I could see the Whittlin' Jim "Slide of the Month" feature. But try as I might I could never make one of those slides. (I have the scars to prove it!) ....Flash forward 40 years and I discover a couple of links to the original Whittlin' Jim patterns. Well I carved one and got hooked and so began this journey...
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