[Thomp]

old buzzard i started out of Jim Maxwells Book Carving Characters.
see more at this link
or copy and paste this in your browser...
http://picasaweb.google.com/thomp51L...vingCharacters

Although not much more than a rough out at this point im having little trouble, seams i forgot what a comical buzzard should look like, guess it will set on my bench a couple weeks till i get an idea or motivation to get the bench clean...
i dont plan to thin out the neck as thin as the original toothpick sized neck becuse i have a 3 year year old carving critic who gets alittle tough with them sometimes, ..... being it will be the thinnest point and i dont want to have to dowell it... with 1/8 bamboo dowell just dont think i could get it right if it busted,

thanks for looking comments welcome, ya aint gonna hurt my feelings its a hunk of wood at this point...

[gene messer]

Thomp .. looks to me you doing a fine job so far ..

Have you got Jim's book .. look closely at his idea .. he does a good job of the face in it ...

Also in Cleve Taylors book'' Hangin In There " .. he has a good closeup of the buzzard's face ..

Thanks

Gene

[JIM QUILICI]

Thomp,
wow! ........... ( that is the same as awsome)....... you are doing a great job .you my friend are on your way to a great carving . make sure you post it when you are done.
Jim

[Thomp]

Thanks for the book info gene,

jim, if i could get as prolific as you now id be well on my way to getting lot of stuff off my work area,
i got lots of things half finished scrollsaw rough cut outs...
maybe ill open a sideline of half A$$ed rough outs..

Aint had a lot of carving time

my favorite bedtime story lately is told by marv keversette's wire bound book, (sp)
i dont remember nothing of it so i read it again every night before bed...

[Shimmy]

Looking good Tom. I made that buzzard about 15 yrs ago .I bought a Kodak C533 5mb Pictures are good.But I have trouble with the Software ,Had to uninstall it .So I'm doing without there software.I will send picture.

[windsong]

Thomp
I like your buzzard i want to carve the buzzards on the show The Jungle Book. Those three sitting in the tree that help Mogley against Shercon the tiger.Man i love those children stories that what i like about haveing kids it gives me a excuse to watch them kid shows.Your done a great job !!!Thanks for letting use see him.
Vic.

[Thomp]

Shimmy,
thanks for the image.. I found my maxwell book. was in the last place i looked... HA! the book case..

vic,

if you got the dvd put it in your dvd on the computer run the movie to the point yoy want the picture and hit control + print screen buttons. stop the movie open a picture editor and click, edit, paste, into new image..

you should have the snapshot for a pattern,, thats how i did the sherrif from cars on my picasa album...

[Thomp]

buzzard progress,

of course the neck broke bout the time i was considering it finished but a bamboo skewer come in handy to dowel it back togather notice dot between wings on back view

[tnartist05]

Yeap,your olde buzzzzard is looking pretty good Thomas. I like your shelf elf's also, and your kinves you've made!

[JIM QUILICI]

Thomp
when I carve faces, I look into the mirror to see how faces look........Is that what you did when you carved this little guy?.....lol....great job.... outstanding job on the feet. now all you have to do is paint it . please show the finished pictures.
Jim