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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Thursday, January 14, 2010
Old Zek
Early in Sept. 2009
Time to Carve: 3 hours?
Finishing: 24 hours
Basswood, basswood, basswood...Man do I love to work with this stuff. Old Zek presented me with one of my phobias when it comes to carving. I hate doing anything with a pattern using a face. I never get the features (nose, eyes, ears, and mouth) to my liking well at least, I thought, part of his face is covered with hair. This is called a chip carving since there is not much sanding done on this type of carving. The second big challenge was painting this work. I not use to the thoughts of painting wood but would rather see the beauty of the grain. On the other hand, I thought, the pattern calls for it to be painted so I settled for a "wash" which in this case turned out to be watered down craft paint. This gave the work a weathered look kind of like a slide based on Robinson Crusoe.
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