I, too, use a turbo carver and can appreciate the work in this. EXCELLENT!
I, too, use a turbo carver and can appreciate the work in this. EXCELLENT!
Fantastic Job. Really came out beautiful!
Very awesome, what talent!! Wow, the detail involved.... my neck hurts just thinking about doing this by hand!! Great job!!
Mike,
It just does not get any better than that, beautiful!
Gary
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Thanks George.
Thank you, yea this getting old kind of sucks but I guess there's only 1 alternative to that.
My chiropractor got shingles so I haven't been able to get in, hoping he gets better soon and I can get the neck popped again.
I mostly shoot it at the range but I don't think it's really anymore delicate than it was. I'm pretty careful with my guns anway.
Used 6½X (3X with 3½x stacked) glasses to carve, kept my head bent low (short focus range) for hours at a time. Neck was fine till about the last day I carved then hurt pretty bad for 3 days after that. Guess next time I will make sure to take a break every hour or so and do something else that doesn't have my head in a downward position.
Thank you I appreciate that.
Thank you and thanks for taking the time to reply.
Need, perhaps not but it's faster than I am and it doesn't get tired or sore like I do. I really bought the machine to scan my carvings so once I made one I could duplicate it or use it to carve bought patterns to take the majority of the wood away and spend my time under cutting and adding fine details.
Thank you. The Turbo carver is great for fine details as long as the carving isn't to deep (or rather deep and crowded) as the bits are pretty short. Biggest issue I have had with it is the bearings going out. I'm on my 4th hand piece, though the last one I just sent in to have rebuilt, a little cheaper than buying a new one. Some day I want to try an eggshell.
Thanks, I really appreciate that.
Thank you. Take lots of breaks Now if I can follow that advice
Thank you. Oh I'm sure it could be better, more intense more carving on the entire stock but being an old guy with neck problems sometimes I just have to say, that's enough.
Called Ruger, they told me it was manufactured Feb 2002 and the wood in the stock was made exclusively for Lipsey's and is birch though they didn't say which species of birch. Based on the harness ratings I found on http://www.wood-database.com/ its likely one of the less hard ones. Pushing my fingernail into the wood I would say its a bit harder than some of the Pine I have.
Here are some pictures of it finished. I mixed 3 stains together for the leaves to be close to what our Bur Oak leaves color is in the fall. Limed oak (which looked like white paint in the can) colonial maple (which was kind of reddish) and golden oak (dark brown, almost a thinner walnut color) put three coats on and it is such a close match to the natural color of the stock, I cant really tell that I stained them.
Used colonial maple and golden oak on the squirrel, walnut on the acorns and ebony stain on the eye. Sprayed 5 coats of Defthane satin with a bit of Martin Senior urethane hardener reduced 50% with synthetic enamel reducer on the carved areas and 2 light final coats over the entire stock.
I think there were many different ways this could have been stained (or not stained) and more carving could have been done. I think if I were to do another I would strip the entire gun and do fish scales where the checking is and either stained the whole thing walnut or left it all natural.
Thanks ~Mike
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Mike,
I do not know how I missed this thread, but I did.
If I heaped the praise on you that I feel, I might be accused of things.
So I'll just say that your projects are a source or amazement to me.
Ken,
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WOW !! That's nice work ... The stain and finish came out real nice, your stain choices were spot on ... Oh,, and the neck thingy, I blew a few disc's too, you may find that an inversion rack/table helps ... I also us an inflatable traction collar I got from my Chiropractor ..
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Mike, simply beautiful carving and finish! -Jon