Icicle carving

Snowdog -

That is very cool! Nice work.

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Hey, Dawg, that’s neat but are u sure it’s not a unicorn’s horn?

-- Thos. Angle

That looks great. I am going to have to try my hand at that one of these day’s.

-- Max "Desperado", Salt Lake City, UT

Hey man, that’s cool!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Just one word…Cool. Get it?

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

I’d be in the ER getting my fingers stitched up if I tried that, Snowdog. Very nice!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I think it looks a bit trickier than you are letting on. But, it looks great to me!

Wow! how about a close-up?

-- CanuckDon "I just love small wooden boxes!" http://www.hilsbiblechurch.org/

Looks extremely tedious to me snowdog and you did a really fantastic job. A close-up shot would be great. Thanks for posting this.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

Here are two more pics, a little closer :). Yes it was a little tedious but it also gave me a good understanding of how to do this type of carving. I bet the next one will take a lot less time.
I get to sit on lots of conference calls all day long, so I put a lap top in the shop and a speaker phone. It may have been tedious but no where near as bad as the suits I have to listen to all day long <laugh>

Here is how it is done:
Cut 1×1x6 or longer if you want something on the top (face , head Christmas tree)
Cut that length wise into the triangle (icicale) shape (at teh square end 1×1 lark centers and draw lines length wise)
Then every 1/2” make a mark down the long sides (both sides of each face)
Connect the marks at an angle creating the spiral shape (ste[ the lines a 1/2” down on each face)
Cut away the corners, (starting to shape it round)
After you remove the corners, plow out the line on each face.
Rinse and repeat until you have the shape you want.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Great job. And it doesn’t make noises on the speaker phone.

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Very nice, & a terrific job of multi-tasking.

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You must be a man with immense patience. I really must try some carving.

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nice work
I can’t figure how you got your sawsall in to all those tight little spots….
or did you just use a grinder?

-- Jeremy M. Reid Woodworking

it was a very small sawsall, the grinder was to big <laugh>

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Snowdog,

Thanks for the link, information & encouragement. I do appreciate it…..

-- Chris

I really like the icicle. Very nice shape and style.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

hmmm, i was just glancing at this again and thought, perhaps it would be easily hide-able/incorporated into the design and save a lot of time if you drilled stepped holes from the solid block end? what do you guys think? shoot I think if I made it a little bigger it would be a snap with my lancelot attachment on the grinder =)

Could be but that would take all the fun out of it. I enjoyed the time it took and the gentle carving away of the wood. I should do another now that I am retiring on April 3 2009 but I’ll write on that more another time.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..