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, Owyhee Design, Oregon

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.canterburybaptist.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.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

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

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

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