Monday, October 30, 2017

Just an Old 2x4

As I walked into the barn a couple of days ago, just as I have many times for the last twenty five years, something captured my attention.  I looked up into the rafters near the loft where I have stored several 2x4 pine studs for the last few years.  There was one there that seemed to want to be a Headland High School ram.  Well the danger of being an almost hermit is that I just had to comply and make it come true for the old stud.  I took the board and hand carved the 2x4 to make the walking stick/staff.  The ram and letters are 23 karat gold leaf and the rest is polished with brown shoe polish.  That seems to leave a soft finish on the pine.  There are more of the boards, that can accommodate many more school mascots


Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Who's with Maxine

I named the one on the right Maxine, but the one on the left is hard, there's so many that will fit.