Wood Carving

[Abalone]

I was at Jim Teeny's house recently and he had a huge German Brown mounted. Or at least I thought it was. Jim told me he caught about a nine pound brown back in N.Y. some place.
As he released it a guy that was fishing with him asked if he would like one just like it carved out of wood.
It is amazing ! You can't tell it's not real..
I Looked the guy up on the internet. He charge $75.00 per inch to carve a fish.....
I am too poor to afford that.
So I am carving my Second fish.. I started on a Blue Gill and I am finding it pretty easy to do. Except the Scales.

Anyone carve wooden fish, Ducks or whatever ? I think this is going to be something I like doing. I think next I will do a Sockeye Salmon....or a Cutthroat.

[mandinga]

$75 per inch...ouch!

there goes my marlin mount idea :shrug:

[Paddlefish]

I carved a cutthroat trout in Western Red Cedar one time. Simply used a Watco Oil finish on it, so it was essentially natural wood -- except for painting the pupil of the eye and the famous cutthroat slash.

Then I framed it and mounted a half-dozen or so of my favorite sea-run flies around it.

A Christmas gift for a brother. He's still got it hanging in his home.

[TillamookChinook]

I haven't tried carving a fish yet. Have to catch one first.

I did carve some bentwood cedar boxes for the three couples on our canoe camping trip to the Broken Group Islands by Vancouver Island this summer.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/2243TRIO026x.JPG

TC

[Abalone]

I haven't tried carving a fish yet. Have to catch one first.

I did carve some bentwood cedar boxes for the three couples on our canoe camping trip to the Broken Group Islands by Vancouver Island this summer.

http://www.ifish.net/gallery/data/500/medium/2243TRIO026x.JPG

TC



Oh man ! Bent wood boxes and they are Beautiful

Didn't happen to learn that at Kestral Tools on Lopez Island did you ??

I have my Adze and native american traditional wood carving tools. I did a class with Loren White. I love that stuff especially the Masks.

Nice Job ! :yay: :yay: :yay:

I haven't been to Barkley Sound but I have wondered Kyuquot, Nootka, and Quatsino.

[TillamookChinook]

No, I just carved with my pocket knife.

I brought back a couple of pieces of driftwood from the trip and had them bandsawn into 3/8" and 1" thick boards. I did not hand hew the boards with ancient tools.

It did take several tries to work out the groove shape required so the steamed board would bend at the corners without cracking.

Cedar is such a magical material to work with. Now I need to make some carved cedar plugs so I can beg my way onto a tuna boat next summer.

TC