Getting things ready for you all - now just have to wipe my linux from my laptop to get the scope cam up and working as for some reason contrary to who knows what the thing wont run on my big system with 2000. I dont think i can pull it off with the DV cam and have you see the detail. Should be up and running this week.
In the meantime here are some pics to give you an idea of the type of stuff we will be playing with and the scale of the tools should become apparent.
Katchina
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...6/Image155.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...6/Image140.jpg
Train
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...6/Image176.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...6/Image184.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...6/Image146.jpg
Marriane
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...06/Image99.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...06/Image56.jpg
Now is the time to ask about tooling and other such stuff. I will put up some pictures of my bench layout as it works a little differently than what most of you are probably used to seeing or working with.
Carving - at least the way I do it - is a dimensional art. I cut relatively deep and the quality of my work is what it is. I don't expect you to carve at the level I do. I just want you to have fun with it. Alot of the techniques will cross over to engraving and how you implement them will be up to you. Each to his own style and finding it.
I am not sure how much room photo bucket has on it - i may have to do this on a different server but that shouldnt be a problem
also looking at a thingy where we can all look at images at the same time and i can do a little white board work and mess with the imagery live.
feel free as we go along to post questions - if you want to email pics of your work back channel thats ok too
well thats about all for now
ask away and lets start thinking about carving our brains out