I have started doing more walking sticks. here are a few that i have been working on recently.

This Carving will be put onto ebay today August 16. Tyler Borg came over and was showing me a few tricks of carving. He showed me how to make one eyebrow low and the other eyebrow highy. I always enjoy carving and learning form him. Thanks Tyler. You can check his carvings out at http://tylerborgwoodcarving.com

Well I did not get any carvings up on ebay last week so I better put two on this week.  I spent last week camping in Idaho and didn't spend as much time carving. We had a good time camping and playing. This is a carving that I finished today.

This is a piece of aspen that I made some carving blanks out of. 

 I almost always start by defining where my eye sockets will go and then start to form a nose.

 I have the basic shape of the eyes and nose. I have drawn in what will be the head dress of what I call a viking.

After I got the nose and eyes roughed out I started to put in the eyes and you can see where I have drawn in his chin.

I put stop cuts right  above the eyebrows so that I can cut back to where his headband will be.

Part of his head dress will be horns so you can just start to see the horns as they are taking shape. I also made a stop cut under his chin and cut back up to the cut. 

I am ready to start on some details. It is all roughed out. 

The first detail that I worked on is putting in some eyes. 

Now the horns are starting to show along with his neck and shirt. 

It was still a little rough so I brought out some sandpaper and smoothed things out a little. 

Here are the pair that I did this week.

Here is another walking stick that I have been working on. Sorry for the poor pictures my phone does not take the best Pictures.

This native american carving is carved from a piece of aspen of a tree that was knocked over in a storm we had. I love the lightness in color.

This was a nice clean piece of wood I drew a rough sketch of what I wanted to carve and started to make the general shape of the face.

You can see the neck starting to form and the shape of the head.

I then started the neck and you can see the nose and eye sockets begging to form.

You can slowly see the neck tie and the headdress.

The nose now has nostriles and you can see the headdress is more defined. 

Details around the nose and mouth are in place.

 Next I put in the eyes and started the hair.

 The last couple of steps I did some last shaping for the entire carving