Slide of the Month Extra: Philmont National OA Exhibit

 

September 2024

Time to make: 3 hours

Finishing: 1 hour

Original design: Philmont/Bill Macfarlane




Contained in the National Scouting Museum at Philmont is the National OA Exhibit that is dedicated to the history of the Order of the Arrow. I got the chance to see the Museum in 2022 and it was quite interesting.

Carved from pallet pine it has several levels and was an a challenge to paint. Painted with hobby paints, lettered with water slide paper, and finished with a couple coats of poly

Slide of the Month-Indian Neckerchief

 

September 2024

Time to make: 3.5 hours

Finishing: 1.5 hour

 
Boy's Life May 1954, page 66

 
Original design:  Bud R. Erb

I don't know why I waited so long to make this slide. Maybe the thought of making 13 identical feathers made my head spin. Or perhaps it was something about the description about the feathers section that didn't make sense to me. So here is how I made the slide. The feathers and head was cut from a thick piece of maple. Next using a scroll saw, I slowly cut out the the design. I carved and sanded the head first before the feathers. Now laying the slide on the side, I made equal parallel cuts down the length of the wood from the tip of the feather to the top of the head. This created several identical feathers for this slide. I then carefully cut away all feathers form the top the head EXECEPT the top center feather.  Starting at each side of the top of the head, I super glued the right of right and left feather to the center feather. Each feather was then glued down at the centered in a layered fashion. Next I painted the feathers and head with hobby paints and did the vanes in the feathers with a paint pen. I sealed the slide with a couple coats of poly before gluing the hairs to the end of the feathers.