Good morning all, This is what I have been working on for the last couple weeks and it has been a true labor of love for a good cause. It will be auctioned off to help people with special needs, brain injuries, handicaps of all sorts thhat have desires to be around horses or ride them. It is called "Walk On" horses and the group that contacted me to do the horse is River Valley Riders out of Bayport MN. One of the board members is one of my best customers for my turnings so she thought I would do a great job, I hope I did! So anyway here are a couple of pictures of the completed statue with a turned American Elm base. We may change the base to one that they had made in the "Flat" but I think the round one adds some grace to the whole thing. The base is now sprayed with gloss lacquer and looks real good. Now on to a bunch of small turnings out of an old barn beam of Red Elm that came out of a friends Great Grandfathers barn. I am making a plethora of small to larger bowls, vessels and miniatures so that all the family will have a piece to remember the Patriarc of the family. I will post the group of turnings when I get them done. The barn is still standing and this beam was replaced with a new one as it had dry rotted and was in danger of collapsing the whole place.
Any way here is the Charity Auction Horse and base.
Thanks,
Jef