You never can tell when something will hit your youtube feed and change your life. I watch this channel regularly. This video hit my feed and I watched it Thursday night as I was getting ready for bed. Friday morning my uncle had a heart attack and was gone by the end of the day. I thought about the birds while I was at the hospital. I have never carved any kind of figures before. Now I can and have. I gave my first one to my Aunt today. I will never forget how much it meant to her. Im not sure there was anything else I could have done to make her feel so loved. I have many more to make now. Thank you for breaking from your normal (excellent) content to bring this to us. I really enjoyed the process of making this with a special person in mind for each one made. Thank you again God Bless you and please tell the ones you love that you do love and cherish them, you never know how long you have left with them and tomorrow may be too late...
Did you used to do a PBS show working with Fine Woodworking. I used to follow your show for years. You were great. Being a furniture maker and a beginning carver I have all the same tools and you showed me how to get started, and how to do it easily. I can tell you have experience teaching woodworking previously. I am definitely glad I found you on You Tube. thank you so much. I am going to use "Happy little accidents" from you with your permission. My wife and I say its where the angels get into the work.
@@timothyvanderschultzen9640 Awesome, thanks! I thought about a rasp, given I have used them a lot in furniture making, Nicholson # 49, 50 mostly. On a small carving like this, is there a type of rasp or riffler you could recommend? Thanks again 👍
@@EpicWoodworkingI couldn't tell you the manufacturer, I bought my rasps and files 5 decades ago mail order. 😂 The one I used mostly was a 10" half round with a medium tooth. Looking at pictures online it looks mighty close to a Nickolson #49. I put a ball handle on the rasp's tang and wrapped a piece of towel around the other end to protect my hands. My process was to cut the side and top views on the band saw and clamp the blank in a wood-jawed vise. I'd wrap some towel material around the blank as needed to get a good grip and protect it from the vise. Then I'd rough it out with the rasp and refine with files and sandpaper. The process worked well with basswood, sugar pine and butternut.
Sweet little project. Great, now I need to make about a dozen of these. lol I kept thinking about the old SNL (Saturday Night Live), Julia Child skit ... "I'm getting a bit woozy ....".
You never can tell when something will hit your youtube feed and change your life. I watch this channel regularly. This video hit my feed and I watched it Thursday night as I was getting ready for bed. Friday morning my uncle had a heart attack and was gone by the end of the day. I thought about the birds while I was at the hospital. I have never carved any kind of figures before. Now I can and have. I gave my first one to my Aunt today. I will never forget how much it meant to her. Im not sure there was anything else I could have done to make her feel so loved. I have many more to make now. Thank you for breaking from your normal (excellent) content to bring this to us. I really enjoyed the process of making this with a special person in mind for each one made. Thank you again God Bless you and please tell the ones you love that you do love and cherish them, you never know how long you have left with them and tomorrow may be too late...
Did you used to do a PBS show working with Fine Woodworking. I used to follow your show for years. You were great. Being a furniture maker and a beginning carver I have all the same tools and you showed me how to get started, and how to do it easily. I can tell you have experience teaching woodworking previously. I am definitely glad I found you on You Tube. thank you so much. I am going to use "Happy little accidents" from you with your permission. My wife and I say its where the angels get into the work.
Old decoy carver here. A rasp if a fine tool for roughing the shape after cutting out the top ans bottom profiles.
@@timothyvanderschultzen9640 Awesome, thanks! I thought about a rasp, given I have used them a lot in furniture making, Nicholson # 49, 50 mostly. On a small carving like this, is there a type of rasp or riffler you could recommend? Thanks again 👍
Thank you! I free handed one during the episode and used a rasp and a couple of rough files to make what looks like a sparrow/rubber duck 😂
@@EpicWoodworkingI couldn't tell you the manufacturer, I bought my rasps and files 5 decades ago mail order. 😂 The one I used mostly was a 10" half round with a medium tooth. Looking at pictures online it looks mighty close to a Nickolson #49.
I put a ball handle on the rasp's tang and wrapped a piece of towel around the other end to protect my hands. My process was to cut the side and top views on the band saw and clamp the blank in a wood-jawed vise. I'd wrap some towel material around the blank as needed to get a good grip and protect it from the vise. Then I'd rough it out with the rasp and refine with files and sandpaper. The process worked well with basswood, sugar pine and butternut.
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 Ha! Come to think of it, my first couple decoy heads looked like that!
Sweet little project. Great, now I need to make about a dozen of these. lol
I kept thinking about the old SNL (Saturday Night Live), Julia Child skit ... "I'm getting a bit woozy ....".
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
@@anthonyantonucci132 Always true 😎👍