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, March 19, 2017
South Sea Island
Sometime between 2012 and 2015
Time to carve: 4 hours
Finishing: 2.5 hour
Funny story about these two slides, I carved these slides while traveling for business as my company was a "go-live" of a new system a couple of years ago. (We replaced this system last fall.) I was on hand for troubles but there really wasn't much to do for hours at a time so I carved. It took a sharp knife and lots of sanding. Also, the eyes on the second called for pearl shell but I used a couple of buttons I got at a local retailer. I sanded off the back of the buttons and glued them to the slide after I painted both slides. A couple of coats of poly finish them off.
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