Wood working, wood burning and carving. :) Items for Sale

It's been a while, but I've been quite busy.

I've been doing a lot of different things, but here are some of the things that I've made over time. I'll post a separate post for each type of activity.

Wooden carving with a router.

Zodiac Signs. Ready for woodburning some nice wording

Small butterfly - wood burning. Made into a keyring

Messing around with a cow. :)

A bike for the bike lovers.

Music notes!

Owl

Flowers

Commissioned work. 

Blacky's Man Cave!

Horse keyring. Was cut to shape.

Currently for Sale.

Sample work.

My 3 legged dog

Well, it's got 3 legs and is standing (sort of) on it's own. :)

 

Instead of collapsing inwards, it's all staying put. Though the front legs have a tendancy to drift inwards. I'll fix that up before I put the final leg on... which I'm not looking forward to! I'll also pop out the bits that have been accidently pushed in when I was fighting with it to put bit ons.

 

There is a ruler in the picture for height comparison. The ruler is a 60cm ruler.  And when I look at the dog, it's actually the same size as our blue healer. :) 

 

I had glue up to my elbows.. literally! I ended up slathering it on, with my arm up the elbow when I was putting the belly on. LOL  Lots of fun. :)

 

Oh, and for those that wish to know - I used Adobe Acrobat to print it out as a poster print, at 390%. So each page was actually made up of 4 x 4 pages (16 pages). Most of my time was putting those pages together.

 

My next project at a large size, will be the tiger from Canon. But I'll use cardboard instead, so that she/he doesn't collapse. It might make it easier to put together too.

Upsizing paper models

It's been a while since I posted anything, but sometimes real life gets in the way of fun. :P  Anyway, my latest project is to upsize a dog from the Canon web site.  The photos show my husband wearing the St Bernard's head that I've so far managed to get together. it was fun trying to cut out the parts on my little table, and not knock over the glue pot!  The other fun part, was gluing the parts together from upsizing.  This dog should end up very large - very close the real thing, I think, if the author of the pattern has kept it in proportion.  My biggest problem isn't going to be how to support it to stop it collapsing... It's finding a place for it to live once I finish it....