Eggshilarating new direction

[Whimsy_Carver]

I don’t know how eggactly to begin but after eggsploring many designs doing Santa, elves, Elfis, and others, I decided to try to crack into something different, a Celtic egg. I went on an eggspedition on the Web for a design and wound up at a site that eggsplains how to draw the basic knot. It seemed not to be eggstremely difficult to use the guide on a 3-dimensional object (4 ½” x 2 ¼” goose egg). Welll, after a lot of drawing and a erasing, and a few eggspletives, I had a knot to carve. I used only a detail knife for carving. The darken area took longer as I burned it using a crosshatched approach. Though it was the first and I was sometimes eggasperated, it will not be the last. I am not sure the best way to eggshibit the egg…what type of stand. Any suggestion? Thumbnails attached may eggsplain my eggsercise.

[papasar]

Jim,
Great little people but the knotwork blew me away!
Bill K.

[rzpooch]

Most eggcellent!!

[tnartist05]

Very nice job Jim on all of the egg carvings! Forrest

[Ron T]

Hi Jim,

You've got a very nice body of work to go along with you good humor. Keep it up.

[MelNM]

Very nice, eggs are definitely a blast to carve.
Mel

[Robert Cahill]

Wow!! that celtic knot egg blew me away. Thanks for sharing and also for the site> I added it to my favorites and will be spending some time there later today.

[RUssL.]

I like the egg a lot.

Russ

[ElWoodTroll]

Ah excellent! I'm really excited. I expect to have exactly the same kind fun you are exhibiting. I just got me a lathe. Something I've been wanting a long long time. I haven't got proficient with it yet (nor do I eggpect to any time soon) but I'm learning to lay wooden excs (eggs.. man you got me all screwed up) immediately

[stickman]

Wow nice work!!

sorry can't come up with anything eggy to say