Another branch of the Steve Good "Gnome" family

[RangerJay]

With the encouragement of my wife, it really didn't take much urging to give these little guys a try - both of us really enjoyed looking at everyone else's take on these plans and they really served as the initial motivation to give them a try. 

A couple of the details on these guys:

• The pattern was reduced in size - I forget exactly how much but I think about 75% (maybe 80%?) of the original size.
• The wood used is walnut (backing and suit), bloodwood (hat), padauk (nose), canary (bear, moustache), wenge (belt, boots).
• Finishing is Minwax Polyurethane Semi-Gloss - 4 coats.

We're both pretty pleased with how they turned out but in reality they are still a work in progress - and will be for a while - the plans call for a small oval stand for them to be glued to but between the two of us we came up with a few different ideas - most of which will have to wait until the snow is gone ...... mount them on: skipping stones from the lake,  polished agate stones from one of the mines around here, driftwood from the lake and finally some small pieces of burl that are in my own wood supply.   In the pictures below I have them sitting on unfinished pieces of burl - they look pretty bland at the moment but this burl finishes up and polishes out to show off quite a spectacular grain.

At least at this point it looks like there will be a bunch of other little members to join the family before next Christmas - all with their own unique base.

Thanks very much to Steve Good for a terrific pattern.

 

Jay

 

[dgman]

Very cool Jay! I am a fan of using hardwoods instead of BB, so these are very appealing to me!

[Tomanydogs]

Very nice. 

[FrankEV]

Well done and cute...the best acalades I can come up with.

[Denny Knappen]

Wow, well done.  I have seen some painted ones, but I prefer the color of natural wood.

[wombatie]

They are very cute.  I think I will be making some before the year is out.

Marg

[Frank Pellow]

They look great.

Having already made some Baltic Birch painted ones, seeing how good your natural wood ones look, I'm now going to make at least two using mixed hardwoods.

[daveww1]

awesome job

[Bill WIlson]

Those are great.  I really like the idea of the different types of bases you are considering.  I'm sure the burl will look spectacular with a little oil on it.

[barb.j.enders]

Love the look of these.  By doing it this way, they are no long just a Christmas item.  Now I am going to have to give that a try!

[Ken Lotts]

They look great!  Excellent work!

[Scrappile]

I agree, those really look nice.... I saved the patterns.... hope to get to them one day.

[Phantom Scroller]

Really like the wood look I painted mine.

[Dragonkort]

beautiful!  i used to get his patterns in my email but since i switched to g mail im not getting them anymore....could you tell me under wht subject his knob patterns are under so i can get them from his sight?   i have an old tree stump im going to make a knobe house out of and those would be great to put around it.....it will take me forever to go through all his patterns to find them 

 

[RangerJay]

Thanks everyone for the very kind remarks.

Dragonkort:  This address will give you access to Steve Goods website - if you click on his pattern catalog and search for "Gnomes" you will get this pattern.  He has a couple more similar patterns that will come up if you search for "Santa".  The address is:  https://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/ .

Jay

 

[amazingkevin]

That's work to write home about!!!!