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A GATHERING OF GIRAFFES


DickMira

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Once again...outstanding! Great panel and a very well done frame for it.

Your productions seems to be prolific.  Just curious as to approximately how many shop hours do you spend on a project such as this one?  

With cutting, finishing and framing I'm happy if I can complete an 11X14 flat fretwork portrait in under a week, and I'm retired with plenty of time on my hands.

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3 hours ago, FrankEV said:

Once again...outstanding! Great panel and a very well done frame for it.

Your productions seems to be prolific.  Just curious as to approximately how many shop hours do you spend on a project such as this one?  

With cutting, finishing and framing I'm happy if I can complete an 11X14 flat fretwork portrait in under a week, and I'm retired with plenty of time on my hands.

Thank you, Frank.  It is not a simple question to answer how long these projects take.  If it is just a fretwork piece, even with hundreds of pilot holes, it can usually be completed in 7 days.  The carved fretwork projects usually average about 6 to 7 weeks depending on the complexity of the pattern and the project.  I usually will work about 6 hours a day, 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon.  Since I am retired and most of these projects are for my personal collection, the time it takes is not important.  Woodcarving is always done in stages-rough carving and then multiple refinement stages.  It is never a process from start to finish in one step.  For painting, I use a dry brush technique using a mixture of Wipe-on-Poly mixed with artist oil paints in multiple layers.  This requires drying time between coats.  If your hobby in enjoyable, the time it takes is not significant.

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