Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Slide of the Month - The "Old Scout" Mystery




November  2017

Time to carve: 3 hours

Finishing: 1.5 hour

Boy's Life - October 1996 page 52

Design: Jeff Springer






Here is an interesting slide but not because of the design (which I like) but because I can no longer find it online. Some years ago, I did find the article and made a copy of it for my notebook but recently when I went online I could not find the article on the Boy's Life "Wayback Machine" or using Google Books. How odd because I have a copy of the page (see below) from Boy's Life and there are outside references including Scouting magazine.

Carved from a scrape piece of Maple flooring, this was a challenging slide to make. First off the wood is very hard which means my knife has to be sharpened often. Secondly I should have been wearing my Kevlar carving glove when starting this slide. A trip to the emergency room and seven stitches later, I found myself using my "third hand" portable carving vice. (I talk about the vice in the blog another time.) Carving, sanding, adjusting, and more sanding to get the look I wanted to achieve. Painting with craft paints and given a couple coats of Poly to seal it off.


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