I am continuing with my line of Civil War carvings to honor the 150^th year of the war. This is a union cavalryman ready to do battle. This carving would also make a good western cavalryman bust also. This was fun to carve. More to come.

This was another fun project. I thought it would be interesting to create a bust of Generals US Grant and Robert E. Lee. Each were carved from two pieces of wood and fasten together by drilling a large hold between the shoulder and a ¼” hole in the base of the neck and in the center of the base hole and glue a dowel in. Then I put some glue in the base hole to finalize the attachment. I turned the head slightly to one side for extra realism.

This is the wood carving I will be teaching at the Minnesota Metro Wood Carving Weekend on November 19/20 2011 in Fridley, Minnesota.

For more information, go to: www.russscott.com/MetroWCWE/

Lynne’s carvings

Here is a way for me to showcase Lynne's carving skills and ability to create great carvings. Most of these critters have found a home with Lynne's family while visiting them on Easter. Now she is on to Uncle Sam figures and so far they look darn good - more on that later.

Happy Easter

Annual Rochester woodcarvers show

Annual Rochester woodcarvers show My Santa on Bark was the last carving shown on this clip. It was a great show.

Christmas is upon us

Christmas is around the corner, and Santa Claus is everywhere. I have fun demonstrating my skills at wood carving at Hanson Tree Farm in Anoka, Minnesota where people come in the warming house after chopping down their Christmas tree and watch me carve. The farm has a ‘Norman Rockwell’ ambiance about it. The warming house is a building that the owners use to store their heavy equipment. It has been turned into a little boutique of Christmas art shop. Christmas music is playing while customers can have hot chocolate, hot tea and Christmas sausage while I discuss the fun of carving Santa figures and ornaments I find it satisfying to see people looking and my carvings and say how they help make their Christmas tree experience brighter.

Mr. Scary

Holy smokes I can’t believe that it has been almost two months since my last entry onto my blog. It’s time that I took a more dedicated interest in continuing my blog. I plan to have more pictures and how to pics and videos out in the near future, but this being the holiday arts and crafts season, it will be a bit difficult but I will try to keep up.

This carving that I have done is made solely out of scrap pieces that I have found in my scrap box. After I carved each pieces I glued them together with toothpicks as pins as extra strength. But using toothpicks or small dowels as pins would strengthen the joints. I have found that without placing pins in the joint pieces break off easily.

This guy is another ideal of mine. He is ready for Halloween.