Marks carvings

[1CallLandscape]

carvinmark, your a very talented carver! great sculptures!!! any suggestions for a budding carver like my self?

-mike

 

[carvinmark]

carvinmark, your a very talented carver! great sculptures!!! any suggestions for a budding carver like my self?

-mike

Hello Mike,
Check out www.chainsawsculptors.com If you can find somebody close to you that carves that will help. Most people that carve like to help each other.Best advice I can give is spend about 100.00 on a carving bar with a fresh chain,they are amazing and make it soooo much easier to carve.Good luck.

Mark

 

[carvinmark]

Fawn out of white cedar

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[carvinmark]

Small fish out of pine

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[carvinmark]

Anglefish at a show

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[carvinmark]

Angle fish finished

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[carvinmark]

4' tall Light house

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[aggiewoodbutchr]

Would you do some P.R. for me???? Heck at those figures we could do almost a 50/50 split and I would be ahead of where I am now.lol. Seriously,I do know what you mean but when the buyers only have 50.00 to spend and you get them to dig up another 25.00,I gotta take it. You are right, I need the right market.:hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

I deal with this same issue in my woodworking side business. Too many people believe they can have something built cheaper than they can buy it at Walmart. I've learned to let these people go as they're really not potential clients. I've shifted my marketing a bit to emphasize quality craftsmanship, superior materials and customization. Hopefully it works out in the long run. I'd sure like to quit my day job and do this for a living. Best of luck to you!

ps- If you figure this before I do, hook a brotha up

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Hey Mark,

Have you heard of this guy?

http://www.dougmoreland.com/cattlelacpage.htm

Multi tallented guy. Singer, songwriter, comedian AND chainsaw carver! Pretty cool in person too.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

His eagles are very good. Interesting... The guy I linked to is a pretty good musician, too. Picks a mean banjo & dobro.

 

[carvinmark]

I deal with this same issue in my woodworking side business. Too many people believe they can have something built cheaper than they can buy it at Walmart. I've learned to let these people go as they're really not potential clients. I've shifted my marketing a bit to emphasize quality craftsmanship, superior materials and customization. Hopefully it works out in the long run. I'd sure like to quit my day job and do this for a living. Best of luck to you!

ps- If you figure this before I do, hook a brotha up

I run my Log home accessories company the same way as you and it has worked very well for me.

 

[carvinmark]

Hey Mark,

Have you heard of this guy?

http://www.dougmoreland.com/cattlelacpage.htm

Multi tallented guy. Singer, songwriter, comedian AND chainsaw carver! Pretty cool in person too.

Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I haven't heard of him before now, but he is a very talented guy. Nice to see this.

 

[carvinmark]

My first Tiki, 3' tall by about 10" dia. Sold!!!!

 

[troutfisher]

Sold!!!!

Congradulations!! It sure helps to sell to piece now and then, these saws are expensive! and bars, and chain, and oil, and files, and spark plugs, and wood, and sandpaper, and stain, and polyurethane, .............well, you get the idea.

 

[carvinmark]

Congradulations!! It sure helps to sell to piece now and then, these saws are expensive! and bars, and chain, and oil, and files, and spark plugs, and wood, and sandpaper, and stain, and polyurethane, .............well, you get the idea.

I sure do!!!

 

[twoclones]

Morel Technique?

I sell more of these than even I can belive. Everybody can afford 20.00. When they watch you from start to finish(with color) in 15 min. I make these out of my cutt-offs from my business-my junk!!!

What's your technique for carving the holes in a morel? I carved my first one this afternoon and carved the holes by making 2 cresent shaped cuts like for an eye socket. Not a bad result but I spent an hour on this one.
http://www.woodhacker.com/morel-1.html

Butch
www.WoodHacker.com

 

[carvinmark]

What's your technique for carving the holes in a morel? I carved my first one this afternoon and carved the holes by making 2 cresent shaped cuts like for an eye socket. Not a bad result but I spent an hour on this one.
http://www.woodhacker.com/morel-1.html

Butch
www.WoodHacker.com

I like your mushroom!!! I have done them the same way and it seems to be much slower. I have been working on ways I can knock out shrooms as fast as I can. I use a dime tip on my 200 and just bore round and oblong divits, it is real fast.
I ruff them out and go right to putting the divits in, then burn real hard to get strings and saw marks off, then use a brass wire brush (brass doesn't leave many scratches in the burn), then grind using a Saburr-Tooth disc on a 4" grinder. These discs are absoutly the best.
Hope this helps you, I haven't posted any of my latest shrooms, they seem to be getting better, I will post my latest as soon as I get some free time.

 

[twoclones]

Saburr Tooth

I had a look at those Saburr Tooth tools this morning. Very nice looking stuff but not priced for impulse buying. They're on my *to do* list now...

By all means, do post a pic of your newest morels.


Butch

 

[computeruser]

Nice looking stuff, Mark. I'll have to drop by to say Hi and BS next time I'm up that way.

 

[carvinmark]

I had a look at those Saburr Tooth tools this morning. Very nice looking stuff but not priced for impulse buying. They're on my *to do* list now...

By all means, do post a pic of your newest morels.


Butch

Those tools are well worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will post next chance I get