Tom H has article published in WCI current issue

gene messer · #21 05-16-2008, 11:49 PM

Tom .. I just got in from being gone a week and saw your article in this months issue ..

Thanks ole friend for a great looking project ,,

Gene

squbrigg · #22 05-17-2008, 06:59 AM

Well done Tom, nice article. Congratulations!

Bob

tucker1931 · #23 05-17-2008, 09:30 AM

Hey there Tom, now I can honestly say "I know a real live celebrity". The article is really well done, great pix, and having a few of these on my work table it's nice to see others enjoy them as well. Great stuff there buddy.
Cliff

Canopener · #24 05-17-2008, 10:57 AM

I got my copy and the cover immediately caught my eye as something I want to try. Good job!
Jim

Mottles · #25 05-17-2008, 07:00 PM

Hi Tom, just had to try your 'Wizards', yours are better, but here are the ones I did. Haven't got it down to a '5 Minute Wizard' yet, but if I keep carving these little ones who knows. LOL

I didn't have a piece of basswood long enough to carve your step-by-step. I had lots of scrape wood that were of a size I could cut to 3/4" x 4" and 3/4" x 2 1/2". So far I have 6 carved and ready to paint.
Thanks again, Tom terrific article and step by step.
Kathy

Marci MN · #26 05-17-2008, 11:17 PM

Oh Mottles, cute, cute, cute!! The second one from the left.. now thats original! Will you show them again once you've gotten them painted? I'm working on a few myself. It feels good to be carving again... *sigh*

Mottles · #27 05-18-2008, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Marci MN

Oh Mottles, cute, cute, cute!! The second one from the left.. now thats original! Will you show them again once you've gotten them painted? I'm working on a few myself. It feels good to be carving again... *sigh*

Hi Marci, thank you and yes I'll show them again when painted. Regarding, the second one (from lt.) the animal head was a after thought. When I got to the what would be the hat area an animal popped into my head. Either it would work or it wouldn't. I'm going to do more animals and birds and plan for them this time. LOL

I hope more like you will carve some too, I think TomH would be very pleased. Please show us your 'Wizards' too!
I'm headed out to the shop to make some more. I have already given one away (unfinished) a friend stopped by and fell in love with it. Soooo in the spirit of Tom's article I gave my first one away to a good home.

Thoughts of putting together a travel kit, knife (glove/thumb-guard), v-tool and cut to size basswood blanks. Seems everything I carve isn't all that handy to take when traveling. This would work for me!

Marci, don't forget to show your Wizards, I want to see them.

Kathy

santagibbs · #28 05-18-2008, 02:20 PM

Great Article Tom, and neat wizards. Nice looking cover. I enjoyed reading your article and the magazine.. Charlotte

Claude · #29 06-07-2008, 11:19 AM

Tom:
You must have awfully fast hands, or are way way down that learning curve!

I've done a couple now, although I'm doing them in the round instead of using a triangular piece of wood. The first took a half hour, the second about 20 minutes and the third about 15 minutes. Probably be a lot faster if I just followed your directions instead of always trying to put my own ideas into the carving as well.

Claude

Tom H · #30 06-07-2008, 12:17 PM

Hey Claude! I don't know about being way up or down the the learning curve, but as to how I carve; I can put some light on that. I like to carve/whittle something that will take very little time. I suppose this is the result of having very little patience, and a very short attention span. Several things that have, at least, contributed to my faster carving are, learning to keep my knife sharp, learning that I could also move the piece of wood along with the knife to make a cut, and employing a stiff denture brush to clean up any "fuzzies". And there is, that issue of the more you carve an item, the better and faster you get, with that item...Thanks for giving the wizards a try.

Tom H