Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 10

Who would of thought how easy it was to do it with my phone. Problem solved.


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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 9 - Bad Day at Black Rock

For some reason, getting ready to film the next segment of this series, our video camera went on the fritz and will not accept a memory card.  So, to get around the problem we are temporarily falling back to my Nikon 5200.  Things might be a little shaky for a while so we hope you will stick with us till we get back to normal.  In the meantime, here's a short video using the Nikon.


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Carving A Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 7

I'm not sure what caused the loss of audio when I uploaded Part 7 yesterday.  Whatever, I've reprocessed it and it now seems okay.  Here's the new one.




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Carving A Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 8

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 6

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 5

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 4

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 3

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 2

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Carving a Cowboy With Angora Chaps - Part 1

With this video series I thought we'd just start from the beginning again and go over every thing we might have learned since we began with the first one a few years back.  Hopefully, a lot has been learned since then so the end result should be an improvement.  Let's get started!

Here are a couple of links to things that might help:

Timber Wolf Bandsaw Blades:  http://timberwolfblades.com/proddetail.php?prod=31604PC

Heineke Wood Products: http://www.heineckewood.com/


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Endeavor to Persevere

Okay....I'll say it!   WOW!   I really like this piece.  I had my doubts as I painted him but once I added the facial decoration it all seemed to come together.  I really like the eyes as they just seem to say so much.  Sort of "Look!  I'm here and I'm not going anywhere!"  As for the title if you've seen the movie "The Outlaw Joesy Wales" you will remember Chief Dan George saying those words..."Endeavor to Persevere!"  I think that's a great statement and it applies to this piece. 

There are more photos in the Gallery and I'll look forward to your comments. 

Native American with Robe

I managed to get the braids completed and I also redid the butt end of the rifle as it was ok in length but not to scale in the butt area.  Looks a lot better now.  I added a neck scarf with a pendant so the piece is pretty well done except for the feathers which I hope to do tomorrow.  Hope you like it so far.

Native American with Robe

I didn't get the braids done but I did manage to texture the robe, reduce the size of the nose and get the rifle case done.  I decided to do the case as it will contrast well against the dark robe and also allow some beading.  Also, I tried something new using some aluminum flashing to make tassels for the end of the case.  Once they are painted I will bend them to add a little more motion.  Might also add some kind of hanging detail on the butt end.  To me the rifle looks small but a Yellow Boy carbine measured 40" in length so it's in scale with the figure....at least I think it is.

To make the texture on the robe I used my old method of stoning it with a dremel bit and then torching the rough surface with a butane torch to remove the fuze.  Then a brushing with a small brass brush to finish up.  This method is much quicker than burning the entire areas with a pen and it gives a pretty good effect.

So, maybe tomorrow I can get those braids on and then come up with some kind of detail for the chest.

Native American with Robe

About wore myself out today doing this one.  Cut the blank out from a 4 inch piece of basswood I bought back in the 90's  and I think it was in the process of becoming petrified as it sure was hard.  This one is 15 inches tall with the walnut base and it might grow a bit more once the feathers are added.  He's going to be holding something......probably a rifle if it works out the way I hope.  We'll see tomorrow.  Hopefully, I will also have time to add the braids.

I'm thinking of trying something different with the robe this time.  Instead of having the fur turned out at the top I'm going to try and have the skin side exposed with the fur on the lower part.  That way I can do a little designing on the hide.  At least that's the plan.

Anyway, I hope you like it so far.

Making a Flintlock Pistol - Part 4

Somehow we lost the very beginning of the video.  You see just a flicker of me painting the piece Burnt Umber.  So, if you do it like I did paint the entire pistol Burnt Umber...probably take a couple of coats after it's been primed with Self-Etching Primer.  Hope that's clear.  Here's the rest of the painting....

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