Please first see my post this day: Barnes Pneumatic South is Open! [www.airgunrendezvous.com]

To continue ....

As I've sold my rifle ... I will use the opportunity to do some fine work in my new Studio location, The first step is to remove the stock from the action, and design the artwork. I lay this out with pencil and sharpie. Most of the work is drawn directly onto the stock - one off. Each section is an origional - even side to side.



Here is additional forestock ornamentation, to be carved. It is needed to keep the gun balanced visually, with the carving on other parts of the stock.



The pistol grip gets deep relief carved vines and scrolls, in the round.



Here is my origional sketch for my interpretation of "Orion The Hunter". The Hunter will appear this side. Reverse side will be scroll work in this area. As with my Grizzly, Caribou, and Primitive Hunter carvings ... I do one side of the master theme (rather then attempting to make a copy and give every person alive the opportunity to prefer one side to the other ... ;?)



Sketched ....



Closer refined detail of what I shall relief carve ...



Here you see the image razored out and placed on the stock. I'll copy the outline and draw in the details on the wood ...



I've added a bit of stylized "Orion Nebula" there in front of our Hunter.

Other detail will be added. It's been good to create some fine art in the studio we've worked so hard to establish.

Hope you like it. Thanks for reading.

Gary



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Gary,

Glad to see you back at it! Everyone of us enjoys seeing your artistic creations!

Wish you the best of health so you can do what you love.

"If you love what you are doing, you will never work a day in your life!"

God Bless...

Pedro

Nice. I'll bet it's a relief to be working on an actual airgun instead of working on being able to work on airguns. And no, I can't say that ten times fast.

Amazing as always, yet still pushing the envelope.

Good to see you'll have the chips flying soon. Hope to see the Orion on a few posts during and after your finishiing touches are applied.

Kent

Hello Kent,
Well, the eraser crumbs and pencil lead flew for some time. Today, I have had wood chips flying all day. I've just quit about 11 pm. It hurts so good! Haha. Feels great to be creating something from a thought once again.
I suspect we will see the Orion. I shall continue to post the progress.
Gary
(from beautiful Studio Pines, Fla.).

Spent the day carving. An exhausting and wonderful change from setting up shops and moving!!



After transferring the artwork to the stock blank .... I began roughing out the relief



Ooooops ... how'd that get in there ... Ramen Noodles ... one of my secrets. Don't tell me anything bad about them. Allow me this one tiny pleasure .....



Farther along. Already, a Dude ya wouldn't want to mess with!

Gary

Yeah, I was just thinking he looks a lot meaner in relief versus in pen and ink. Good to see the shops back in action.

-- Jim

very nice Gary, Really very nice.. Great work.. you are perfect. super

Here is the Mid Pass at the Orion Hunter Character.

Gary



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And now we shall have a brief interlude while I source another air compressor.

The mid sized portable unit I was using ... ahhh ... Detonated. Pushed the piston out, sheared the toothed drive belt while the motor/gear drive broke the motor/pump casting in half. It's duty cycle was apparently .... Insufficient.

So; a mid sized portable 110 unit is the same price as a 60 gallon shop stationary twin cylinder. But I have that in Maryland; awaiting the trailer. I hate to loose portable capacity because its been so handy down here and during the move. I was going to get a larger 80 gal two stage. But those are beasts and I'd spend time wiring and installing and fork lifting which i dont have time for now. I planned to enjoy running this job and then setting out for Md. I have appointments there.

No foul. It's just machinery. It comes and goes. I shall be back!

Gary

Back carving. New Compressor is very nice.

Got the portable (barely at 169 pounds). Kobalt (made by Sandford in Canada) cast iron twin pump. Synthetic oil. 30 gal. Tank. Heavy air tires. Very quiet compared to the manic noise from the last one. Chose it based upon huge list of impeccable reviews. In stock at Lowes.

Working.

Gary

Boy this made an ugly noise when it broke. There is a second strut underneath that is similar size. It also broke clean. Toast.

New unit is working very well. Nice and quiet. Love that.



Danger. Extensive carving can make your hair thin!



Mid pass at the pistol grip. Carving long stocks, in the round, is a constant juggle of position and clearance.

Going well. Enjoyable to be using the shop for its intended purpose.

Gary

I like the carving, definitely unique.

The way he's pointing sort of makes me want to insert one of those cartoon "thought balloons" as if he's saying "Why yes, the bullets come out of THAT end down there".

Sean,

Good timing for your comment. I have pics I'm posting regarding the "Logic" of the artwork and thoughts that are going into it.

Please see the post "Orion Logic".



Gary

That's amazing GB. I really like the picture you came up with to suit the name. Very creative. The GOD actually looks like you. No.....not joking this time......lol!

LOL! It's part of a series of self portraits. Remember "Primitive Hunter?"

I think you're on to something Jerry. He must be channelling Clive Cussler and his cameos. Don't we all picture ourselves as twenty somethings until we look at a graven image or the mirror. I wonder if that's why so many cultures have taboos about photographs?

Kent

I think you may be on to something with that idea Kent.

Yup! Pictures of other people are OK but pictures of me now violate all that is good!