A wood carving

[Chillicamper]

This took me bloomin ages to do....I mean over a year.

Must be all the other projects I have on the go

Anyhow, I finished it during the summer.

Its my interpretation of an Incan sun god image a found somewhere on the net. Carved out of Lime

 

[Penpal]

May the sun shine wherever you go in that campervan mate.

Peter.

 

[Vic Perrin]

Very Nice

Vic

 

[Bill Mooney]

Very nicely done David.

 

[bluntchisel]

That's a nice piece of work, David!

Bob.

 

[PhillH]

That must have been a bugger to get that good a finish on that.

:bravo:

 

[donwatson]

That looks a very nice piece. Well carved with a good finish

 

[paulm]

Thats very nice David and only a year

It would've taken me a lot longer and at the very last moment one of the rays would have fell off

 

[bassethound]

Nicely done indeed David!

 

[Grump]

Carving? Another art to master, only been trying for 50 years, never successful yet.
Good to see others work though well done.

 

[Jimjam66]

Great showcase for your carving skills, that! I can't get any idea of scale from the pic though - how big is it?

 

[Chillicamper]

Thats very nice David and only a year

It would've taken me a lot longer and at the very last moment one of the rays would have fell off

Funny you should say that.......one or two of the rays might happen to be a slightly different shape to originally planned:wink:

 

[Chillicamper]

Great showcase for your carving skills, that! I can't get any idea of scale from the pic though - how big is it?

It's not that big - around 8.5 inches.

I kept putting it to one side for a while then coming back to it as it was more fiddly to carve than I originally thought. I didn't want to get frustrated with it and bugger it up!

 

[Jim]

Very nice David, i went to a carving school (well it was at a turkey farm actually) a few years ago with a lad who did some great pieces of carving, i lasted three visits. It wasn't for me as the results of what i was doing were to slow ..

 

[Penpal]

David where do you display your carving?

Peter.

 

[Dalboy]

A nice piece of carving, what next a green man perhaps

 

[wm460]

Very nicely done David.

 

[Lons]

Nicely done David.
I can't see whether that's a tooled finish or a mixture of tooling and some sanding? What finish did you use?

You could stick it over the VW badge on your camper

I love VWs. I have a T5 transporter LWB, 2.5 turbo Diesel / 174 bhp and it pulls like a train. If I was younger (and could be ar**d I'd convert it to a campervan). I gather they are quite sought after.