I started carving this back in October and I all but gave up on it as it dawned on me just how long it would take to completely clear it. Luckily I started with the hardest part, so when a light router with a quarter inch shank and a sorry excuse for a height adjustment wolly sprocket, which had a broken flim flam almost immediately, came my way, (I bought it actually) I started the tedious and now rather loud and dusty process of finishing the carving.
To start to finish something is a fine feeling and I felt feeling fine for a good three months until lo; recently, this is the final result, more or less.
It is carved on a two by four sheet of a very nice birch ply. Birch ply is what gets used when times are tough, but it is a tough timber to tackle and does not do fine detail very well. Also, one needs to be more aware of carving direction when using it.
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