Attempts

[Bob Riegl]

I just finished a rough out of a Harley Refsal figure, the one he uses to demo the technique, which I will "attempt" to emulate. I am a machine carver on detailed birds and am trying to return to my roots with the knife. This is a big figure if made to the scale indicated in the text which calls to enlarge patterns to 1" squares. I am asking opinions of the experts who obviously have so much fun turning out these extremely interesting figures in flat plane style. Am I better off scaling these figure down to at least 75% or 50% size for my introduction to flat plane carving? Or just repro the patterns as indicate in the book which are ~75% full size. I'm going to need help so "Be Prepared" is a Boy Scouts motto, and a warning. "Doc"