See, inspiration. Tomorrow I'll have to look around for a piece of wood that will take a better polish than the wet silver maple and possibly hackberry that I used for mine. Yours have a more detailed/refined look about them.I usually turn my snow people with the shape of insects in mind, a smaller head, a little larger thorax, and an elongated abdomen. View attachment 58547
I watched a video last night from the quad cities about turning birds off axis and had thought about that for a snowman. Then I also thought why not just turn the hats separate in a different wood even then stick them on.Doing a multi-axis turning to put the hat at a jaunty angle helps both the appearance and keeping the turning process more interesting.
You beat me to it.Doing a multi-axis turning to put the hat at a jaunty angle helps both the appearance and keeping the turning process more interesting.
That's what you would do if driven by speed and efficiency. Sometimes I do things the hard way to alleviate boredom.I watched a video last night from the quad cities about turning birds off axis and had thought about that for a snowman. Then I also thought why not just turn the hats separate in a different wood even then stick them on.
That's what you would do if driven by speed and efficiency. Sometimes I do things the hard way to alleviate boredom.
Eyeballs! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018QOUSM6?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_detailsLots of lessons learned turning the %$$# eyeballs! First one was if you drop one on the floor it's worse than dropping a stainless screw in the chips. One session and I learned don't try and duplicate each one just make a bunch of them and look for matches!
They have everything you don't want too.I didn't even look for eyeballs online. Amazon pretty much has everything don't they.
I've given up on trying to prevent cracking and am embracing it.I’ve been playing with snowmen myself for the last few days. It’s amazing how much you can change the shape and still have a snowman.
The two larger ones here are large sections from a tree that came down a couple days ago. I drilled holes up the middle of them to try to keep them from cracking. We’ll see how it works.