I Chip Carved Four Plaques

Charles, those are very nice !

-- Larry "Work like a Captain but Play like a Pirate!"

WOW! My mouth is open on these! I absolutely LOVE the last one! I so want to try this! I have all the stuff and only need another several hours a day try! You are my inspiration though and I am determined to give it a go after seeing your beautiful work. I loved seeing the stuff on your last post, too but this stuff really looks awesome.

Thanks so much for showing it. It is so cool! Marty is a great teacher too!

Sheila

-- Contributing Editor, Creative Woodworks and Crafts, Sheila Landry Designs http://www.sheilalandrydesigns.com "Knowledge is Power"

Wow! Those are spectacular!

-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Nice work, those looks real nice.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

These are really spectacular!

With this talent, you certainly will be able to add another wonderful dimension to any project you build.

LEw

-- Lew- Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Toolz, Sheila, Ellen, Charles, and Lew, I so much appreciate all of your kind words of encouragement. Your words are really encouragement to me to keep on learning by doing which is invariably the most important way to learn in woodworking. Thanks so much.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Wow. Your really doing well. All the time spent is paying big dividends.

-- We must guard our enthusiasm as we would our life - James Krenov

looks pro to me charles

and the feelings come thru

glad you are enjoying yourself

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Wow! looks like you bin doing it for a very long time Charles!

-- -Thomas -

You are getting pretty darn good at this stuff. Carving is the one thing that I really haven’t really even attempted yet (unless you count carving me and my girlfriends initials in a tree when I was 11) other than maybe some whitlling along the way.

Nice work Sir. I should have rung your bell recently. I was in Norcross a couple of weekends ago. Not too far from your neck of the woods.

Doc

-- Hey, woodworking ain't brain surgery. Just do something and keep trying till you get it. Doc

I have to agree, Charles, these look great. Any of us would be proud to develop this skill, as you have. These plaques certainly an inspiration for those of us who are not chip carvers to start working with this technique.

-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine

ditto what everyone else has said

-- www.carvingandturningsbyrick.com, Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

Those look great. Nice design and hand work. I hope to pick up this skill some day. Pretty good for three months.

-- http://jeffbranch.wordpress.com

Wayne, David, Tag, Doc, Scott, Rustic, and Jeff – I thank you so much for all of your kind words and your encouragement – and you do encourage me to keep going and get better.

However, I will say that you do not have the advantage of seeing these plaques in person. Everyone of them has flaws in them and I see all of the flaws. The flaws don’t come through the photographs. I won’t say that these plaques are bad but I want to do them better. Before I do each one I say that I’m going to do this one right but I never do. There are always flaws that disappoint me but I don’t let it discourage me. When I get through with one I look at it and I say the next time I will do better but sometimes it’s worse. So my progress is slow and sometimes two steps forward and one step back. I wish that I could carve every day and not just wait for the weekends. That would be better but it’s impossible unless I can start doing it when I get home but I’m tired when I get home from work. I also wish that I could go to some classes. This would be hard also. So I will just keep on doing what I’m doing – I don’t know what else to do but what I’m doing.

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau