The Completed Owl

The facelift of our owl is complete. As well as repainting the owl this time I also painted the base that the owl sits on a metallic gold. He is proudly sitting at the end of our porch welcoming all of our guests. 

Carvings I Have Done

Yesterday we celebrated the Fourth of July with a cookout at my mom’s house. After the steaks were grilled and the potato salad was made we sat down to eat. We had a great time of celebrating out nations 236 birthday. As we watched a baseball game on TV I noticed the first wood carving I had done sitting on top of TV. It brought back memories of other carving I had done. Here is a collection of different style of carving. Some which were just stained and others that were painted to bring out the details. All these carvings were done as gifts for my dad and mom.

In honor of Dad's time working for Ford

Wooden Frog Puzzle

We celebrated my Grand Nephew Tristan VanderBoegh’s first birthday on Saturday. A lot of what I learned about woodworking came from my dad. One of the things he made for each of my boys when they were young was wooden puzzles.  I went on line to find a picture of a frog that I could create a puzzle for Tristan. This is what I came up with. Happy Birthday Tristan, Love Ya Uncle Ron.

Layered Owl

As I journey through my woodworking projects I plan to include some old projects as well as my new projects. I hope you enjoy my walk down memory lane.

Today’s entry is of an owl that I made back around 2002 (One reason for my woodworking blog so I have a reminder of when I made my projects) This Owl made out of 2x10s and stacked together has held up pretty well in the Florida Sun and rain. But it is time to give our owl a face lift. This is after sanding and filling some of the cracks in him. This is the first coat of paint with 2 or 3 more coats to follow.