my copy of Claude's snowman pin

[BigDaddyO]

I finally finished carving and painting 8 snowmen that I carved from an old Cedar shingle. I must say that using Cedar as my very first carving medium ever was not the best idea, but I only had to scrap my first two snowmen.

I attached a picture of one of the 8. I don't think I will be using Cedar again anytime soon.

[Mottles]

Good job!
Kathy

[Iowa Carver]

Nice work on the pin, your doing great!

Corey

[Ron T]

Hi Mike,

I don't think you did too bad on the snowman at all. I wouldn't give up on cedar so quickly if I were you.

[Robert Cahill]

I think you did a good job on the snowman. I haven't tried cedar yet but intend to experiment with it. In one of my carving books I recall they said pencil cedar was a good carving wood but I have never heard of it anywhere else maybe someone here knows it by a different name

[Claude]

Mike:
Excellent work on the snowman pin! Here's a couple of Santa pins for you to try next: Santa Pins

Claude

[BigDaddyO]

Claude,

Maybe once I finish a couple other projects with Basswood I'll return to the Cedar to make the Santa pin on the left in your picture. I have about 20 more Cedar shingles left. I made 8 snowmen out of just one shingle.

Thanks,
Mike

[gene-messer]

Nice job DaddyO..

Gene