Walters Carving

Working on the details and finish.  Tomorrow I'm milling the wood for the base which will be out of walnut.  This is the home stretch.  The carving has 11 pieces of bark glued up.  The well had posts, but they broke off too easily while trying to finish other aspects.  I may go back and add them in once i've got everything else done, but chances are I'll just do another carving with a well and maybe just one tree - less to get in the way as you're manipulating the carving.

In my last post I showed a tree that I had power carved.  Since then I've gone a little crazy and started a forest.  I didn't plan on them leaning in the same direction, but the lean is useful as you can position them leaning in different directions around a carving of a house/cabin.  So what am I going to do with this forest?  I started thinking, and then I started carving .... I started a cabin .... and then a well which I'll detail below how I created... The well was created in about an hour with power.  I'm fairly sure that I could crank these out a lot faster now that I've worked through the process.  The tools I used are in the below picture.  A simple diamond taper, two carbide flames, one at 1/8 and one at 1/4, a diamond cutter, and a detail sander.  I also used some Scotch Brite (not shown).  I'll detail the steps below the picture of the burrs. Start with a piece of cottonwood bark that i...