General Care Discussion :: Cool turtle wood carvings!

[DavidY]

Check these out...


They have a bunch of different kinds of reptiles, mammals, amphibians and insect carvings. There's a few different turtle ones too. Here's the link to the web site for the above carving...http://www.bigappleherp.com/Tortoise-Double?sc=16&category=2208

These guys have other good deals too. I've bought from them before and have been pleased.

[Tenodera]

wow!
beautiful!!

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Oh wow that looks so cool! Do you happen to own one of these?

[DavidY]

No, not yet. I just saw it for the first time in the newsletter they just sent me this evening. There's a few I'd like to get, but don't have that kind of $$ right now. I've been wanting to try my own hand at wood carvings some day. An old friend of mine does large life-size wood carvings using a chainsaw. Very cool stuff! He's done a lot of bears, big ones too. He's also done trophy fish, eagles, etc. I'd like to try chainsaw work too, but I really want to do more medium scale using a dremel tool instead.

[xsavingsaturdayx]

Sounds pretty cool! You should learn how to make wood carvings, It sounds fun. If i had the time, I would definitley do it.

[DavidY]

Yea, lol, that's the big thing...time!

[iac637]

We tried widdlin for a while then I gave myself a nasty cut and I haven't really done it since. (I thinkI just a nerve going to my thumb, it is slowly getting the feeling back though)

[DavidY]

Yikes! Yes, you must be careful with sharp objects! lol

Yea, I almost cut my knee off with a chainsaw a few years back. I wasn't being careful enough while I was clearing a new trail through the woods. I had taken down the big trees and was trying to clear the little saplings with the chain saw. I was working too quickly 'cause I was tired and it was getting late (big mistake) and I was croutching down cutting a swath from side to side with the saw and then taking a step forward and cutting again. At one point while I was moving the saw back from left to right, it snagged on a really green sapling just as I was taking the next step forward with my left leg. I walked right into the saw blade while it was running and immediately I yanked up on the saw and pulled my knee back. Then I looked down, saw the tear in my jeans, followed a few seconds later by a gush of blood.

I wound up trying to tape it up and hobbled around for the rest of the evening, but when i tried to drive my truck back down the hill I popped open the wound again while I was working the clutch with my left foot. This time i couldn't stop the bleeding so when I finally got home, my wife rushed me to the ER. It took 17 stitches to close it up. The worst part was when they had to cut away all the tattered flesh before they could sew it up. man that hurt!

woa, there I go rambling again! sorry...

[myrtle1123]

The wood carvings are really pretty !

[SpotsMama]

Woww! I think I'd stick to the dremel tool!

[Starchick]

My parents just had a huge peice of wood carved to be part of their fireplace mantel. The guy who did it is just crazy about wood carving, he does it all by hand with chisels, and charges next to nothing. He did this really elaborate design with leaves overlapping an eliptical in the center, then oak leaves sort of dancing down around it, and a really cool scalloped border. I'll have to post pics, it's genuinely amazing.

[Hoooneylynn]

AHHH! Does anyone want to give me $35.99 + shipping! hehe

[SpotsMama]

I love to work with wood myself. I used to carve things, then paint them. I love to finish and assemble furniture too. You can save a ton of money by getting unfinished furniture or furniture parts and finishing them off yourself. You'll love the ones you do yourself above all the others.

[DavidY]

Yea I like to work with wood too. I build most of my own display cabinets and stands. I'm not real good with it as I don't always get nice tight joints, but I like to blame that on the fact that I don't have the right tools to do the job correctly. I love the finished product after it's all stained and polyurethaned.

Now that I finally got a dremel kit, I really want to try doing some intricate carving and sculpting. The big chainsaw sculptures would be cool too, but I need to get a smaller chainsaw. The one I got right now is too big for the detailed cuts.