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Old 07-13-2010, 01:21 PM
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I wanted to share some pics of a practice stick that I did in dogwood. I have been working on making different facial expressions. I had a piece of dogwood that was about 1 inch in diameter that I used to make a few faces and some symbols on.

Pics are of three faces, deer tracks and one shot of the whole stick.
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Old 07-13-2010, 02:39 PM
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Did you treat the carving with something after you finished? It almost looks like it was carved out of wax. Very good carvings!
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Old 07-13-2010, 03:13 PM
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I used about 3 coats of polyurethane. I really like the look that it gave the wood. It also filled in the crevices of the carving and actually cleaned the raw carving up to look even better than when I started applying the polyurethane.
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nice work!

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Old 07-13-2010, 11:38 PM
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Nice carvings. Keep up the good work!
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Old 07-15-2010, 10:28 PM
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You're doing real good...keep up and thanks for sharring..
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Old 07-21-2010, 09:47 PM
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Keep up the good work, anyone would be proud to own your "practice" stick, thanks for sharing.
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Good job on the different facial expressions. My faces all look the same. I just tell everyone they're brothers...jerry
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Old 07-23-2010, 07:08 PM
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I like it!

Challenging yourself with facial expressions is the way to go.

Nice job.
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Old 08-11-2010, 01:13 PM
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Neat idea with the deer tracks. Like this very much.

Safe Carving and God Bless,

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