Some days....

[ElWoodTroll]

It just doesn't pay to get of bed. I spent three days dragging and digging trying to get a couple pieces of large cotton wood logs planted so that I could start whittl'n. I carved a rough draft (very rough) to go by and set about chipp'n away on the first carving (its an elf sitt'n on a shroom) Six days into the project I encounter a void the size of Kansas. No problem I thought. I'll just break out the Bondo..........I take back all the nice things I ever said about that ..
Just got my new WCI yesterday. Outstanding! Nice work Y'all
I apologize for my lack of participation here lately I've been so busy carving and doing spring clean up there is scarcely time to sit down at the puter.

[Thor]

Nice work on the elf on the shroom! Is that the model or the one you put bondo in...can't tell where the bondo went from here. Sure is a nice pond. Great looking place. I guess you can make flat work pretty well after all.
Thor

[Kenny_S]

Nice work El. Yep, some days you eat, some days ya get eaten! Such as life with a bull legged wife!Red Face

[ElWoodTroll]

That's the model in pic 4. I haven't taken any pictures of the stump carving yet. Pic 1 and 2 is the stump that I am working on and found the void. I'm used to working with bondo in the "studio" where I can control the environment. With with the late afternoon sun baking it, the bodo hardened with a granite like quality. I now have an oppurtunity to try out my stone cutting tools (translated jackhammer). The log laying in front of the pond is destined to become a palapa adorned with carvings
of a Mayan flavor

[Dusty Buffalo]

To give you more workable time with the Bondo you can cut back on the hardner about 25% or you can put it in the fridge for about 2 hours. Just don't freeze it, that's not a good thing. Getting it cold gives you even more workable time.

I only know this because the hubby is a tech rep for Bondo.

[whitecree]

Bondo can be a lifesaver sometimes. Chipping, chopping and carving away for hours and days on end, and then you find a hole big enough to hide a body in...

Hey, that's a good looking pond you have. I'm glad my wife doesn't visit this forum or I'd have to build one just like it for her.

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by whitecree

I'm glad my wife doesn't visit this forum or I'd have to build one just like it for her.

My wife was giving me "instructions"
while I laid the stones.

[Dusty Buffalo]

That's what us wives are for. To supervise and instruct.

Have to make sure it gets done right, the first time.

I'd love a pond like yours, it looks great. The hubby on the other hand has this thing about mosquitoes. I haven't convinced him yet that the bats on our property would take care of them. I'll have to do some more convincing.

[ElWoodTroll]

Originally Posted by Dusty Buffalo

I'd love a pond like yours, it looks great. The hubby on the other hand has this thing about mosquitoes.

It's probably hard to tell unless you zoom in on the picture but there are actually two ponds and a waterfall. If a mosquito does brave the moving water he's also got hungry frogs, goldfish and koi (?) to worry about
Baby

[ElWoodTroll]

I made some proggress last week. Got the truss for my Palapa built, started weaving the thatch and chipped away at the elf.