Carving Complete!

This was great project. The carving process was relaxing most of the time. But it was rather daunting and complex. I worried quite a bit that something might go wrong; mismeasure, lop off an ear, take to much wood off somewhere, the tree might be rotten in the middle, … And it seemed that I might not ever complete it. But still I really enjoyed it.

It doesn’t look like this could have came out of that tree. It’s an optical illusion. I took a couple feet off the top and shrunk everything down to scale.

Looks a little glossy now but the finish is still wet. It will mellow out to nice satin.

In total the project took about two weeks to complete.