Saturday 2 July 2011

Birch Mouse

When I was a kid, we made a mouse out of wood at primary school. I did not like working with my hands back in the day, but now I am starting to like working with wood more and more, and decided to once again try and make a mouse. I went to look for a suitable piece of wood, my dad advised me to use Birch over Pine, because it is short-grained... I took his advice and here are the results:



Carefully selected branch of Birch wood

De-barking
Shaping....

More shaping....
Stages of sanding...


Nice ass!
 During the coarse sanding, I lost the pretty structure of the wood, but luckily, with very fine sandpaper, I managed to get it back! :-)
En profile
He's got eyes! :-)


Pretty boy! :-)

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