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Old 02-15-2007, 10:25 PM
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Default A whimsical bird...

...from Laura Dunkle's book: the blue bird of happiness. This one is about 3 cm tall (1.25 inches). The hardest part of this was carving the square stock scrap into an egg shape to be able to start carving the bird.

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Old 02-15-2007, 10:44 PM
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awwwwhhhhhh that's just as cute as it can be
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Old 02-16-2007, 07:48 AM
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A bit of whimsey brightens the day, and this little bird brightened mine!

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Old 02-16-2007, 08:33 AM
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Hey Claude! real nice, how about a photo of all of your little stoppers ..
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The hardest part of this was carving the square stock scrap into an egg shape to be able to start carving the bird.
Now you know how hard the Mama Bird works!

Nice work!
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Old 02-16-2007, 11:27 AM
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Default Re: A whimsical bird...

Piece looks great. Not surprising about the egg,,next to a perfect sphere, an egg is one of the hardest shapes to do well and have it look convincing because of all the constantly changing radius
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