| Project by Amcarver | posted 10-14-2011 12:31 PM | 8011 views | 2 times favorited | 9 comments |  |
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This horse head was chainsaw carved and raffled off at the American Woodcarving School’s Open House held this past summer at the school in Wayne NJ. The wood came from a large cedar tree that fell in a neighbors yard and I haven’t been able to find something this large and nice since. Sadly, this was my last piece. The woman that won the carving was extremely pleased with it.
-- E.R. Bunn, http://www.hollandmountainwoodworks.com
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Brandon
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#1 posted 10-14-2011 12:58 PM
That is one sweet carving! The cedar is just so rich in color, too.
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Lee A. Jesberger
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#2 posted 10-14-2011 01:01 PM
Great job.
You must have spent a lot of time with a chainsaw, to have that kind of control.
Lee
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#3 posted 10-14-2011 01:17 PM
I’ll bet this is harder than it looks. Nice job….......
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Heidi Neely
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#4 posted 10-14-2011 10:04 PM
AWESOME!!! I have a hard enough time doing precision work with a chisel…I can’t imagine achieving such detail with a chainsaw! lol!
-- Heidi :) “The only source of knowledge is experience”
Chriskb3
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#5 posted 10-14-2011 10:39 PM
Beautiful! Reminds me of a giant chess piece
Amcarver
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#6 posted 10-15-2011 03:11 AM
I have to admit I took a v-tool and chisel to the eye and mouth. Everything else was chainsaw, grinders, sanding. Done a lot of horse heads mostly not with a chainsaw. Chainsaw makes it very fast, but carving is carving.
-- E.R. Bunn, http://www.hollandmountainwoodworks.com
Woodbridge
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#7 posted 10-15-2011 03:25 AM
Wow that’s great. I was on a cruise recently and they had a carousel horse in different stages of completion. I added trying to carve something like that on my “to do” list. I just started toinlcude soem very basic carving in some of my projects. Your carving is very inspiring and something to shoot for.
-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario
Amcarver
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#8 posted 10-15-2011 02:48 PM
I have lots of Carousel Horses I did back in the 80’s and 90’s on my website.
-- E.R. Bunn, http://www.hollandmountainwoodworks.com
Jimthecarver
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#9 posted 10-16-2011 03:28 PM
Beautiful job!
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