attended Jim Linnell's class last week

[knucklehead]

Jim Linnell's(spelling??) class at tandy leather factory in portland last thursday and friday.

it was a good class. i learned how to carve animals this time. never carved animals before. also got more pointers on the western
floral design carving.

[knucklehead]

more pics added

[knucklehead]

i still need lots more practice with the swivel knife. 
still have a little problem with following the tacing lines on the border area around the animal.

but overall i think for the first time doing animal carving it came out looking pretty good.

[goodtime annie]

Nice job. Great that your taking classes from one of the many Masters. Learning from their knowledge is well worth taking a class. I took one from Jim back when I lived in OK.

[JD Alan]

You did a great job Kuncklehead. I wrote the wrong date down for the class. I though it was the following week, I flat blew it. I really wanted to work on Western floral carving. I did learn some new tips while taking Bobby Rose's Holster class a couple of weeks ago. 

[Ace Lungger]

Howdy KNucklehead,
One word AWESOME Pard that is KILLER, you can stand proud of that work!!!! If I only had 1/4 the talnent you have, I would be smiling!!
Keep it uo!
Ace

[amin ledbetter]

Very nice Knucklehead! That turned out awesome. What tools did you use to do the Wolf?

[GunClick Rick]

Hey now!

[cowboywc]

Howdy Knucklehead
Great job for your first time. Keep it up.
WC

[knucklehead]

thanks all.

taking classes is the best way to learn how to do stuff.
classes also force me to do carvings that i would normaly shy away from, kinda breaks the ice for me.

JD, yep you missed a good class  but no worries it happens to everyone once in awhile.

as far as tools go im not sure, i got the figure carving bevelers from tandy the day of the class.

the background around the coyote/wolf is the pebbler from hidecrafter borrowed from a fellow classmate. gotta get me one.

i used the tandy pebbler on the project around all the tooling to break it up.
the geometric design is a hackbarth tool i bought 7 years ago and hadnt used it till now.

[DUKE DEADEYE NUKEM]

Great job.