[Greenbean7]

It's me again looking for wood! I got tired of carving on eggs and I am looking for characture roughouts for dogs. I have a friend who has requested a basset hound and I haven't been able to find anything close.

I carved a really cute dog from one of Gil Drake's roughouts and that is what got this started. It is probably one of the best carvings I've done and I won't part with it, mine!

Any ideas? I've searched the web but there is so much out there it is just confusing.

[Anthony Filetti]

Greenbean,
I'm sorry I don't have a pattern or roughout to reference but here is a thread related to a carving I completed a couple of years ago. Hope its helpful...

Lonesome Dove

[wood-whittler]

greenbean,


tom wolfe has a dog pattern book that has just about any kind of dog you could ask for, i know he has some basset hounds in there because he has had several. the name of the book is 90 patterns for dog carvers.

hope this helps

bart

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

do a google search of the dogs you want, print copies of the pictures of them and trace the outline on a piece of wood, cut it out and you have a roughout of whatever dog you want.

[Greenbean7]

Rocket - That would be perfect. Did you get it in a rough out or just start from scratch?

Bart - Thanks, I'll check into that.

Hi Ho Silver - I can't do my own roughouts. Husband has a band saw but I haven't been able to get him to try it for me.

[Anthony Filetti]

Greenbean,
I just started from scratch, however I had carved some hounds from Tom Wolfes books so that helped. I'd go w/ Bart's idea of looking for Tom's book on dogs.

[AlArchie]

don't know of a roughout or cutout for a basset hound, but here's one over at Wood Carvers Supply of a snoopy hound that you might be able to adapt by shortening up the legs a bit.

Click on the "kits" section on the left side of the page, then drop down a few projects.

http://www.woodcarverssupply.com/store/

Al

[Greenbean7]

Thank you!

I know somewhere I saw a blank that was a hound laying on it's tummy. Probably at the show in Kennewick, WA. I can't think of the woman's last name that had that table. Her first name is Chris and she is somewhere in Washington I believe.

I am going to order Tom Wolfe's Gone to the Dogs. I don't think I'm ready for realistic looking critters!

Thanks again! I'm so glad I found this forum!

[Thomp]

Try this greenbean,
it was a heck of a hunt but tom wolf bandsaw blanks some of dogs
http://www.woodcarvers.com/twblanks.htm
from animals to dogs,