Master of The Chainsaw carves a bear

[Chainsaw Master]

Some of ya's asked me to post some pics of a carving in progress, so heres my best shot. Its kinda hard carving with one hand taking a pic with the other. Warning this is not to tried at home without adult supervision.

A nice setting is good for inspiration, got hit with a foot of beautiful white stuff last nite.

A 5 ft. red pine block, with my 346 xp. The 16" laminated bar with 3/8 low pro chain, takes off a lotta weight, it cuts a narrow kerf, faster than regular 3/8 chain, and as far as chainsaws go........ it screams.

4 cuts, one was removing inch or so of old wood off the top.

7-8 cuts more, and ya got ears.

 

[Chainsaw Master]

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A humbolt notch?

4 more cuts makes a nose.

2 more cuts makes for some arm work.

346 cuts circles, 2 cuts each side.

 

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2 more cuts, make some arms, another humbolt?

Fired up the jonyred, did a little wiz work with the log wizzard.

Close up of the wizzard at work.

5-10 minutes with the wiz, cleans him all up.

 

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A couple minutes. wizzing on the nose.

A close up of the head.

A couple more touches with the log wizzard.

I wish I had a full wrap handle for this upside down wiz work.

 

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Neck all nice and clean, time to fire up the 346. Some times I got both saws running, its nice to have a saw that'll set on a stump idling, and not run away.

Put a notch in the nose, and did a little paw work.

Side view, paws look even.

back view..... looks ok bach there, Hmmmmm he's ready for the chopping block.

 

[Chainsaw Master]

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After some serious grunting, and a little help from the kid, he's on the chopping block, and I'm ready to do a little leg work.

All notched and ready for the back cut..............

Fired up the jonnyred, and did a couple minutes of wiz work on that notch.

A little more wiz work on his belly, cleans that up.

 

[Chainsaw Master]

finis

side view, while I fire up 346 to do some leg work.

2 cuts.......perfect notch??????

Some wiz work on the back, and front. A little boring on the front, with the 346, screaming wide open, makes the legs.

There ya are.....a bear.

 

[skwerl]

That looks easy. You just start with a big log and cut away everything that doesn't look like a bear!

 

[Mange]

Thank you for posting.

 

[Chainsaw Master]

try that again

All notched and ready for the back cut..............

Fired up the jonnyred, and did a couple minutes of wiz work on that notch.

A little more wiz work on his belly, cleans that up.

 

[Chainsaw Master]

Hmmmmm guess I didn't need to try that again, I thought the last post didn't take......

 

[West Texas]

Impressive to say the least. Not only to have the vision in your 'minds eye' but to be able to create it physically with wood and saws.

 

[vharrison2]

Nice work, thanks for posting.

 

[Redbull]

I'm very inspired now. Damnit! My wife would kill me if I took on another hobby.

 

[keith c raymond]

Thanks a lot .Now I have some inspiration to try that sometime.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Hmmmmm guess I didn't need to try that again, I thought the last post didn't take......

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Nice post!

 

[Vman]

incredible work!! i also looked at your site, you are truly an artist!
how much time in total does it take you to make that bear?

 

[Chainsaw Master]

incredible work!! i also looked at your site, you are truly an artist!
how much time in total does it take you to make that bear?

Thanks for the compliment, an to all who gave one. As far as I carved in the picsnormally would be about 45 min. carving time. It was a bit longer with a camera in one hand.....Next I'll go over it with the log wizzard, paying carefull attention to plane with the grain, and smooth it out, so's I can take my husky 136 with a dime tip and put in the details.

 

[badcars2]

i just now got good at the cut into 16" pieces and get in log splitter. the stacking part still needs some work, on my end anyway!

 

[gumneck]

Nice work. Tks for sharing.

Curious....would yellow pine work as well as the red pine?