Sometime between 2012 and 2015
Time to carve: 2 hours
Finishing: 2 hour
Carved from red maple this is a chip design so there is very little sanding involved. Finished with a couple of coats of poly.
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This is a quest to make all the slides featured in the Whittlin Jim's "Slide of the Month" in Boy's Life magazine. (Hopefully without doing lasting damage to my hands or fingers.) Blogging my progress along the way. I completed my task in March of 2017 and now post my own designs along with some other "Slide of the Month" contributors.
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- Slide of the Month March 2017 - Mercury capsule
- Bones and Horns (Horn - something special)
- Bones and Horns (Bone Eight)
- Bones and Horns (Bone Arrowhead)
- Bones and horns (Bones Chris cross)
- Armadillo
- Cow Horn Indian Chief
- Scout Hang-on (Chief Hang-on)
- Too Cold (Squaw Hang-on)
- Overzealous First Aid (Footsie)
- Snag-Tooth Clown (Snag-Tooth Charlie)
- The Great Pie Fight (Cannibal)
- So I can sleep at night
- Chinese Figurine
- Key Key Bird
- Texas Longhorn
- O A Slide 3
- For Specal Award
- Reflector Oven
- The Tenderfoot Camper
- You name it
- Clip Board
- Memory Slides
- Emergency Slides
- Guitar
- Hoop Dancer
- The Black Kight
- Jackknife
- yacht
- Minature Mounted Trophy
- Moose
- Iron Kettle
- Sawed Sumac
- Paul Bunyan
- Elephant
- South Sea Island
- Hawaiian-Aumakuas
- Pine Cone
- Emblem of Freedom
- Seahorse
- Goal Kick
- Pedro
- Jointed Monkey
- Hikin' Boots
- Patch slide
- Eskimo Billykin
- Cree Toboggan
- Bamboo
- Bongo Drums
- Snowshoe
- Corn on the Cob
- Siesta
- Cow horns and Antlers
- Steer horns
- Cherry pie
- Horse's bit
- Sabbath Slide
- Imbedded Arrowhead
- Mountain Sheep
- A Nutty Squirrel
- Knot Slide
- Gourd Slide
- Thermometers
- Aluminium Slides 1 and 2
- John Henry
- Milkweed Butterfly
- Sioux Chief
- Tarascan Indian Mask
- Ole Man of Hawaii
- Beaded Thunderbird (Rosette)
- Knot Slides
- Black Walnut
- Hound Dog
- Hidden Money Pocket
- Fungus
- Bark Canoe
- ...the time is right.
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Who Was Whittlin Jim?
From http://www.historichalescorners.org/hchs4.htm
W. Ben Hunt (1888-1970) was born in the town of Greenfield, Wisconsin.
Ben Hunt was a leader in the outdoor movement and in the reintroduction of pioneer skills. He introduced subjects such as rustic woodworking, whittling and carving, metal working, and historic Indian crafts and lore as hobbies and handicrafts for fun and leisure-time activities. He was involved with the Boy Scouts on a local and national level.
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- Bill
- Years ago, when I was a Boy Scout, I would wait impatiently for the next issue of Boy's Life just so I could see the Whittlin' Jim "Slide of the Month" feature. But try as I might I could never make one of those slides. (I have the scars to prove it!) ....Flash forward 40 years and I discover a couple of links to the original Whittlin' Jim patterns. Well I carved one and got hooked and so began this journey...
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