These are some fish carvings I just started working on.  On the left is the rough blank cut from a stud-grade 2x6 on my band saw.  On the right is one that I've already started to shape.

 

 

 

 

This is small shorebird that I finished a short time ago.  It's made of pine, stained and finished with tung oil.  I'm not a photographer - obviously - but I thought that I'd "cute" it up by draping a bed sheet behind it and tossing in the starfish.  It stands about 10.5" high by 11" wide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a larger shorebird.  With the stand it's about 18.5" tall and it's 17" wide.  This piece is also made from clear pine that was stained and finished with several coats of urethane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My mother's cat recently passed away and she wanted me to make an urn for his ashes.  "Bear" was about 136-years old and she had him since the beginning of time.  He was also the biggest cat that I had ever seen - realistically about 25 pounds, although if you were to pick him up you'd swear he weighed about 100!  The box is made from -yup, you got it - pine.  The sides are butt-jointed as a design choice.  I hand carved and used a dyed liquid resin to inlay the graphic on the front and had a small brass plaque engraved with his name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Duke" was Bear's - uh.. "brother".  Duke passed several years ago, but my mom wanted him to have a nice resting place to match Bear's.  I tried to get a little more intricate with the inay on the front since Duke was a fuzzy little guy.  The little hairs sticking out were a bit tough to carve, but sandpaper helps hide a multitude of sins.