[Lightningbolt]

I have finally recovered enough from 8 stitches in the knee (and the codeine) from a big gash incurred from a fall while trotting down a backwoods gravel road last week, so I thought that I'd carve a little greenman to regain my spirit that was somewhat lost during the restless bedridden phase of recovery.

He's really a tiny little thing that I sketched out from the upper-end scrap left over from a recent sourwood walking stick... just one of those nice wood scraps that I couldn't bring myself to burn in the wood heater or throw back out to Mother Nature. My Flex-cut micro carving tools came in real handy for this project and especially so when cleaning out all the waste wood around the tighter edges of the leaves. I've grown to love these Flex-cut tools and like them even more than my Dockyard micro tools but both are excellent knives.

When completed I thought about perhaps drilling a hole into the top with a fostner bit thus making a dowel-swivel top for a nice little container for something like toothpicks, but finally settled on putting a small red candle in the top. Unfortunately I don't have one on hand but I was thinking about something in the range of about 3/8" or 1/2". Hopefully, somebody makes candles that small. I put a swirled red candle in one of my larger, similar woodspirits and it really set it off.

I have some birthdays coming up and thought that this would be a very simple yet nice gift.

[Merle Rice]

Hi Dave, Neat little Woodspirit,he would also make a good Cane top. Nice job. Merle

[bullshipper]

Nice work Dave, great detail and paint job.

Lonnie

[Jerry Lucchi]

Dave,I sure would love to get a nice carving like that for my birthday. Great job!!! Jerry

[tucker1931]

Hey Dave, great little carving. As for a candle, get some of those tes lites, then just cut it down to size they're cheap as dirt. Hope your knee is feelin better.
Cliff

[chuckt]

Love this little woodspirit Dave. He's perfect for that small cutoff. Great idea and nicely executed. Love the leaves, the simple face and the paint job. Thanks for sharing him.

Hope the knee mends soon.


ChuckT

[Tom H]

Dave, Sorry to hear bout your tumble and stitches. That's a very nice little Greenman. You seem to be able to pull off the very tiny to the very large carvings with equally nice results. You often make reference to using sourwood. Is it carved green or dried? Is there another name for sourwood? I don't know if it grows up here in Ohio or not. It seems to hold detail very well. Again, very nice carving.

Tom H

[Iowa Carver]

Wow, you tiny carvers are something. Nice work!

Corey

[gene messer]

Dave .. I love him .. simple .. yet so natural .. I love little pieces like this .. there the kind that our grandfathers did with what they had ..

To me a piece of simple history . great carving and painting

Gene

[Ron T]

Hi Dave,

Sorry to hear about your fall and subsequent mending time but glad to know you're doing better. That's a great carving and, if you don't mind, I like to copy it on a walking stick. Nice finishing too.