3rd rattle.. white limba

[ajcoholic]

Today, I took off the day from work since it is our Thanksgiving - and the weather was great! So, after a walk with my wife and son, and puitting him down for a nap I whittled out another rattle.

This one is from white limba - sometimes called Korina - which is a wood with grain similar to mahogany, but is light in colour and lighter weight.

It was the first time I carved it, although I have worked with it in my woodworking shop several times in the past.

It carves VERY nice, much grainier than basswood - similar to butternut but softer.

I did a 5 bar rattle, based off the design in the whittling special issue. I find the 5 bars are plenty, VS the 6 which leave much less room to get your knife in between the ball and cage.

Here is the limba one, and another shot with the basswood (also 5 bars), and butter nut one (6 bars as in the magazine). I think I might just start a rattle collection

Joseph is still sleeping so he hasn't tested it out yet!

AJC

[Claude]

Nice work, Andrew!

Claude

[Inadv]

Very nice Andrew! Either your little lad likes long naps or you can whip out one of those pretty dang fast! Either way you did a great job on them.

L.P.

[grdeno]

Very nice again he will get a lot of good out of them too bad they grow up so quickly.Seems like I blinked and mine are 37 and 31 where does time go???
Gary

[Northwest29]

Andrew, nicely done! At that rate you'll have aroom full by the time the grandchildren arrive.

Gary - If you blink twice they will be 50 and you'll have grand children at the age of 21.


Ron

[fly fisher]

They are cool looking mate... might give one a go myself but wouldn't be able to give it my nephew though in case he swollowed it lol
You should carve one out of every wood you've got Andrew

[ajcoholic]

That would be a LOT of rattles.. Lol, i carry about 25 or more species of wood, and much of it too hard to whittle (at least too hard for me).

I bet I make another 2 or 3, still have some good softer carving woods yet to try

AJC

[fly fisher]

I say "the harder the better" ....Im on about wood for carving lol

[Don R]

Andrew, I would like to do a couple of those. In which issue did you find the design?
Don R

[ajcoholic]

Originally Posted by Don R

Andrew, I would like to do a couple of those. In which issue did you find the design?
Don R

It was in the "WHittling" special issue, which I picked up off of the newstand here back in July I think.. or early August. I remember it was right before I went camping.

It had a lot of excellent smaller sized projects to keep me busy for a while

I think it is still available through the site as a back issue for $10 or so...

AJC