Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-09, страница 64

Pattern Located in Full Size Pattern Section No. 2!

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toy Orchid Davis, photos by Wes Demaresi

Finished and colored bum

This red-tail hawk wcs gracious enough to pose for me as I took a number of photographs, with hopes that one would be good enough to be the basis of a project. Well, I was not disappointed. All of the photos were good, and I selected this one. That was the easy part! For the next step, the photo just needs to be enlarged to the desired size on a copy machine, then sketched or traced onto the wood {also an easy part}.

The main thing to remember when woodburning the hawk is that, just like with the bobcat featured in the April issue, there are no straight lines. This entire howk design is basically a collection of curvcd lines. Focus on developing a light touch with the woodburning tool and adjust the amount of heat you use or the tip so you are burning for color, not creating charcoal. You can always go back over a line to darker it, but il is nearly impossible to lighten it. Some folks have asked me, "Why don't you mertion the setting you are using on your dial?" I choose not to mention the setting mainly because no two pieccs of wood fake the same temperafure sef-tirg to get the same detail, and there can be variations between tools. On top of thaf. I arr constantly making fine adjustments to the temperature settings, and it would drive you a little crazy and take up a lot mare room in the article if I included every adjustment. So just look at the photos and irake a bunch of test burns on some scrap wood until you get the hang of getting the shades thaf please you.

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