[Ashbys]

I found it amazing , I was going to try it on some walnut , to see if I could get the effect . I fount it very interesting .

Ash

[Mischief]

Oh just look at Janel Jacobson's tool collection!! and her glasses. Now that is a nice setup.

Janel Jacobson ~ Small Sculptures and Netsuke

[Bobla76]

I have an odd one to share and ask for advice. My daughter in law wanted a Buddhaa for her garden. This is the first digging out of the background and the buddhaa itself. the main part is cedar and the buddhaa itself is yellow pine. It's from my own sketch. What's the best way to attach the yellow pine to the cedar? All my tools are homemade or reworked junk store specials so gouge sizes and sweeps won't help me much.

[AlArchie]

I'd opt for a single line of exterior glue, right up the center. The pine and cedar will expand and contract at different rates and the greatest difference will be across the horizontal axis. By using the central single vertical glue line, you will have elimiated most of the stresses that will form when the wood warps or shifts. You could use short wood screws (still along the central vertical axis) from the back but unless you are really carefull they might poke through.

On a small piece like this, if it were to be used only indoors, you could simply glue the entire back surface of your Budda.

Al

[Jim-Iowa]

I have to agree with Al! Exterior Glue is the best option.
My first though was mortice & Tenon or Dowel.
But his mention of the expansion & contraction makes me doubt that for this application(they might contribute to splitting?). I would avoid metallic fasteners as they will surely rust. If you go either with dowels or metallic fasteners use an oversize pilot hole to allow for expansion.

Nice design by the way! And a good choice of woods for exterior use.

[Bobla76]

Hey guys, thanks for the info. I will go with the exterior glue The expansion & contraction was what I was worried about. The garden this is going to be in is in northern lower Michigan, (in fact the coldest spot in lower MI.) so the e&c could be large. I'm not evan done with this and she has already requested a totam pole with her totams. I guess that's what happens when you work for free.

[squbrigg]

Mark ...that is the oddest carving I've seen yet! Peas in a pod .... and so thin you cans see light through them, tough job!

Can't say I've had odd requests, but end up doing odd things in a ship model by time!

Looking forward to seeing more oddities!

Bob

[AlArchie]

Well, if it's going to the Lower Penninsula and at it's coldest spot, it has to be Pellston. Local lore says it's colder'n Hell in Pellston! (Hell, Michigan, btw)

But we have Pellston beat by a mile, here in the UP! We fight for bragging rights for coldest and most snow.

Al

[pallin]

The thread brings to mind some fantastic carvings I've seen in museums in Europe. In the British Museum in London are some religious objects with all the disciples and the Last Supper in miniature inside a piece with carved hinges and amazing embellishments, by Belgian carvers. In a city museum in Grindelwald, Switzerland is an example of work from a master carver from Brienz - a floral arrangement "in-the-round" which won an top award at an international exhibition. The thin-ness of the stems, leaves and petals was truly amazing.

[Bobla76]

AlArchie
This going to be in Kalkaska, or as they say there "Kalaska". I'm a "down stater" and you must be a "Yupper". I have a friend from the copper country who says that they have three seasons there "almost winter, winter, and still winter"