[Thomp]

from
arnold smiths members album a file named pat. arnold had written permission to use the pattern so i did.. thanks arnold.

http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.co...00/ppuser/3777
the pat image


i was amazed after i used the scroll saw and cut the rough out the way
as i had to fit it on a 2x2 basswood block...
this produced a really skinny charter. could have glued 2 2x2's togather but feared the cross grain problem. so i continued on a lark... charters are suppose to be funny looking and it was turning out that way...

using this pattern of arnold smith and folding it around a block of 2x2x12 basswood, i had to have several printings differently sized until i had one that fit the block good enough to make a charter... (thanks to intraviews print features you can change the printed scale and preview it before printing.) the attached should print oyt 7.75x4 inches edited to fit 2x2x7 block but yoy really have to croud the edegs.

the Results was a long and lean rough slim feller as he wound up 1/2 inche wide 7 inches long. (not cut out at an angle through the block with his nose facing a corner, which might have helped with the weigth, and original gutar leingth )

well never the less here is what i came up with...

http://lh3.google.com/thomp51La/RRIo...jpg?imgmax=288

playing with the scraps of the same block i found freebee A second charter from the same scraps as the first block just from putting the front scrap and the rear scap togather facing the flat sides togather and gluing them, there was another long tall slim cowboy only difference is its not attached to a block at the feet like the original but i can fix that.

expecting many problems with the grain not matching or wild grain i didnt have the problems i thought i would with the knife digging in the multi directional grains across the glue joint, but i kept the knife honed well..
posted in my picasa web album (Address in signature block..) are several views sorry the pics are so bad im using a web cam, saving up for my bandsaw... then a decent camera

[Eleanor]

Twins!! nice work, they have great character!

[Tom H]

Thomas, Real nice fella (s)! They look like most pickers and grinners look to me..Slim, but still pickin and grinnin. Good work. Tom H

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

the one is the side view of the guitar player eleanor. The drawing is for the rough cut out of the caricature

[Thomp]

elenor your right
TWINS
the link in the message dosent show up well this picasa web pages link has better photos of the twins.
i told the wife they were brooks and dunn
she said willie and whaylon... dont know yet...

But when you print out the pattern (resized to fit a 2x2x7) the spooned pieces of scrap behind and in front of the main project when glued togather by the flat external sides, will make another picker..
there is twins that came out of this pattern, only one is attached to a block though ..
but with 5 inches of block left over there is plenty left to recut and make a base for the older twin..
I resized the attached pattern in the previous post to printout to fit 2x2x7 if some one is interested trying it...
thomas...

[GardenGnome]

Looks real good. Don't stop now. You have the makings of a band. Add a drummer and and a singer and you'll have it.

Christopher

[Eleanor]

Hi Thomas, I 'm glad I was right about the twins...it was a bit early in the day for me to be seeing double.....I agree with Christopher, make a band of it, and don't forget the pedal steel player!

[Thomp]

Sorry for all the deception. for i didn't mean it to be,

i'm going to cut out another and take some more crummy pictures of the process with my web cam, it will explain it unmistakably.

I think, hi ho was talking about the drawing i think being a one charter side and front view, Elinore... was remarking on the 2 carvings in the bad pictures...

thanks all for all the comments you are all so kind, and I'm working on patterns for a crooner a washtub base player, jugger, thinking of harmonia player and fiddle & banjo player..
but got to stop and order wood...