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It’s been awhile since I’ve busted out the carving knife. I had some grandiose ideas of woodcarving on the beach. So I cut out the blank and packed the dremel and a couple of blades and took the carving ‘kit’ to Florida on our family vacation! I was quickly sanctioned to using the dremel only on the patio of the condo and carving on the beach surcombed to carving in airconditioning! It was a beautiful vacation and I was able to pretty much complete this carving of one of Enlows expression carving characters. Oh, to be on vacation again! Can’t Wait!
-- Michael, Fort Worth, TX. "I wood if I could!"































13 comments so far
bryano
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posted 796 days ago
Thats awesome!!! Great attention to detail. I would love to learn to carve like that.
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Buckskin
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posted 796 days ago
Looks great to me. Good show!
mot
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These caricature carvings are awesome. I saw one done as a howto in a magazine once. They look very gratifying to do. This one is really cool!
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oscorner
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posted 795 days ago
It doesn’t look like he enjoyed the beach as much as you did. He must prefer the mountains. LOL. Nice carving.
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TheGravedigger
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posted 795 days ago
Nice work. Good take on Enlow!
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MsDebbieP
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posted 795 days ago
haha.. he’s so cute!
excellent work
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Thos. Angle
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posted 795 days ago
Well done.
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snowdog
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He looks great, How big is he? It is hard to tell, I would guess 8” or 10 ” hight?
That poor guy looked like he had a bad time at the beach? Maybe he sun burned some sensitive parts <girn>
I never tried carving with the dremel. It seems like cheating :) but when I think about… I am going to try my dremel today and see how I feel about it.
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woodup
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posted 795 days ago
For this project I used basswood and it is about 3” – 4” high. I used the dremel for roughing out the piece. It definitely keeps the project moving forward. Cheating? ;-) Maybe… but no more than using a band saw or scroll saw in my opinion. I would like to learn to use the dremel for finer detail work in the future.
Thanks for all the great feedback!
-- Michael, Fort Worth, TX. "I wood if I could!"
cajunpen
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posted 794 days ago
Very nice.
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Jiri Parkman
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posted 696 days ago
Good details.
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trifern
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posted 529 days ago
A true work of art. Thank you for sharing.
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kolwdwrkr
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posted 239 days ago
very nice
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