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I'm not sure if my blog set this project up for failure or success but here it is. You can blame Tom (ND2ELK) for the design inspiration. His hunting picture of the coyotes brought back memories. My dad used to take me out to help hunt coyotes with a rifle, but to also set marlin traps. This carving is in walnut. I'm sure that this design could have taken on a lot more detail, in fact I had some cat tails drawn in with a lake, had the tree pushed back with a branch broken off and laying on the ground, etc. But it all wouldn't fit the scale I was after so I simplified it. All in all it was a fun little carving. It also gave me a reason to turn a mallet. My girlfriend was carving at the same time and was using the only mallet we have. So I made one out of maple. It's not a fabulous mallet but I may post it after I get done carving on it. I have some chip carving to do on it.
Anyhow, this is how this carving could look like if we were bears:
As always I welcome all criticism positive or negative.
Anyhow, this is how this carving could look like if we were bears:
As always I welcome all criticism positive or negative.