Whittling A Fella In A Window

in #whittling5 years ago

Whittling, only with an imagination, a pencil and a flecut carving knife, I was able to turn this little piece of scrapwood into something kind of cool.

This video shows the how the layers of wood are taken off to get the fella out of his window:

The picture below is the idea:

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These images show what will be cut from the sides and the knife I'll be using.

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And below, are the pictures as they happened:

I began by marking out my walls and areas that would protrude, such as the head, hands and shelf. I do this so I don't forget it when the drawing is gone.

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Careful not to cut your finger. Just a little bit of pressure can go in a long ways with this knife. Fortunately, this was only a nick.

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Here you can see I've removed the background and redrawn my lines.

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Next, I find the fella

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Gotta go in a bit deeper to bring him out and shape the window.

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The final knife phase (before I clean it up with chisels) looks like this

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Not too shabby for a first.

And once I set that one aside, I messed around with this one

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