Wood Magazine 67 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1994-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

As you push the U-shaped no. 11 gouge into the wood, rotate it to drill the leg holes.

Carve the overhanging edge of the shell with a V-tool.

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Pare the rings around the neck

Starting about W back from the point at the front of the head, pencil in the neck rings and head (the tinted area of the pattern). Refer to the Body Side View, and sketch in the head and neck on the edge of the blank.

Round the neck to about %" diameter, re-marking the locations of the rings as you carve. Now, form the rings, starting with the large one. Stop-cut the line between the head and large ring and the one between the rings. Then, with your knife, make angled slicing cuts from the middle of the ring down to the stop cuts on each side.

Similarly cut the back of the head to form a V-groove between the head and the ring. Carve the smaller ring using the same method. You should now have two roughed-out rings with a narrow V-groove between them, as shown opposite page, bottom.

Shave the front of the sloping shell top so the surface stands about a rim thickness above the neck. Form the slight arch over the neck, and then complete undercutting the shell on the front of the body. Carve a sharp V-groove (actually, more of a half-V) where the neck joins the body.

Make both ends neat

With the turtle neck shaped up, turn your attention to the head. Study the head in the top- and side-view illustrations. Notice that it looks almost like a pentagon in the top view, but more like a slightly misshapen bullet in side view. The turtle is looking upward, so the top of the head and the straight portion of the bottom angle up from the neck. Shape the long curve on the bottom of the head. Then round off ilit bottom corners, creating a U-shaped cross section. Mark the eye locations on the sides of the head, and carve from behind them back to the neck on the sides and top. Starting from in front of the

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