Awesome work, Dave! Great job!
David
David
Eagle and Fish
Finished a couple of projects this week. First one involved fish. Had some issues and ended up re-doing the carve, evidently I am "too fussy". After finishing both pieces, the customer was more than happy with them and took both of them. This one done on 5/4 select pine with golden oak stain and chestnut glaze with a poly topcoat.
The second one involved an eagle model. I tried something new and added a little color. Not quite at Scottart's painting level yet, but was pleased with my results. Ash slab sealed with sanding sealer and then a mixture of stain colors that I had laying around and topcoated with lacquer.
The second one involved an eagle model. I tried something new and added a little color. Not quite at Scottart's painting level yet, but was pleased with my results. Ash slab sealed with sanding sealer and then a mixture of stain colors that I had laying around and topcoated with lacquer.
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Not usually a color guy either, but was wanting to try something different and in this case, the different colored stains brought the eagle to life, in my opinion.Very impressive .
I wouldn’t have painted the eagle , but then I seen it painted . Great work
Haha John, You know me too well.
So I decided to share "my mistake" and the process on how I tried to fix it. I was doing a process called rest machining to get more detail using a smaller ball nose bit in specific areas when this happened and I forgot that when I 'calculated' the toolpath, I had the underlying water model turned off. So doing an offset toolpath on the perch worked well until it got to the edge of the perch and decided to plunge down almost 3/8" and before I could stop it this happened... So I decided that I would try to inlay a new piece of material and recarve just the one fish.
The process worked fairly well, but I was not happy with the glue line and the grain match. I decided to finish 'the mistake' and see if the customer would notice (and he didn't). Wish I would have taken a picture of it finished to post.
In the end, I probably should have listened to my critics and saved myself 7 hours of carving, not to mention the glue up, material and a sleepless night trying to decide what to do.
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