Wood vs subject

[jartzh]

I concentrate on finding a pretty piece of wood and getting some shape that accentuates the beauty of that particular piece of wood.

Is this a different area of carving than those who get a chunk of tupelo, or basswood, or glue up a block ?

I dont mind the cracks, bark, voids,... that come from a big log if I want to carve something big.

This seems to be as different from the basswood carvers as we are from the caricuture, or whittlers , or relief carvers. Do we need a different forum to concentrate on our arena?

[mpounders]

You might look in the "Carving in Found Wood" section of this forum ?
Carving in Found Wood - Woodcarving Illustrated Message Board

The chainsaw carving section might also be of interest, but found wood section has only been around for less than a year.

[hwallen48]

What Mike said!!

[jartzh]

Found wood is mostly bark and driftwood carving for what I have seen. But I guess Log carving would go under that section. But I have never FOUND any logs. That makes it sound kind of trivial. I have to hunt them down, cut them, trim them, load them, haul them, unload them, take down my fence , wrestle them into the back yard, put the fence back up, then get down to the work of carving on them. I have a piece of live Oak that is too heavy to budge at all. I dont know how I got it back there(guess I was younger and lucky) I am hoping it will lighten up as I remove some of the wood but I am not counting on it. Live Oak just seems to be as heavy no matter what size it is! And I dont plan on removing much of this piece.

"Found" sounds like I was walking along a path and stumbled over a branch.
I will spend more time in the "Found" section and see if someone does things like mine.

[Jim Arnold]

I understand what you mean. 'Found' isn't it. Doesn't really seem like there is a specific area for what you're talking about. I mean, if it was stone, they'd call it sculpture. If its wood, and its large people just automatically think 'chainsaw', General Wood Carving seems to be the catchall for anything that doesn't fit the specified categories here. I'd converse with BobD and see what he might be able to come up with for you.

Jim