Firewood/Reindeer with Pics.

[Chris Burchfield]

Well Black powder opened today.  This is what I was doing:


1" tenon Cutter.  Bucks 32", doe 28", faun 14".  

Drilling the body for the legs.  Do one at a time and add the leg for orientation for the rest, lean a little to the outside from center/side and away from the end.  

These chain grips were just the ticket for both the neck and the head.  I used a fence staple to secure to the work top.  The neck gets tenon on each end.

 The body is braced against the other bodies while drilling the neck hole.  

 The heads are from a split piece of firewood.  Initial trim is with a chainsaw.  The finish to shape is with the hatchet.  This is a bit time consuming.  One head on each end.  

Here, I used the other head for back support.  There is a good bit of torque from the 1 1/2" cutter.  Same as the neck hole in the body.  

 A batch of buck bodies.  Trying to figure out which is the head and which is the tail.  Sometimes I use the larger end for a big breasted buck.  Sometime it's a big butted buck.   :D :D :D

Here, the family is caught in the turnip green patch.  I not saying this is a baited field, but the turnip greens do eat good.

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As I added all the picture's first, I didn't know where to go in and ad lib the pics.  Go to my Photo Gallery and look in the New Album.  I tried to rename it Firewood/Reindeer and was unsuccessful.   Thanks to Beenthere we now have verbage with the pics.

[thecfarm]

I like the 3 deer.Or I should say my wife would.If she saw this she would be right after me to do something like this.She would say,that won't take you an hour to do.Plan on selling some or gifts?

[Chris Burchfield]

Both.  I made some years ago drilling holes for 3/4" dowel.  After I learned what a tenon cutter was I ordered the 1" & 1 1/2" from Lee Valley.  They work very well with a 0 - 500 RPM 1/2" drill & 1/2" chuck.

[Holmes]

That is a great project and product.

[beenthere]

Chris
Good pics, and would be better with some verbage.
You can add that when you click on modify, then just type your words just before the "img" bracket [ that is ahead of each pic link.  Use the Preview button to be sure it works in the correct place.

The words you add to your pic in your gallery are great but don't transfer along with the pics to your message.

Hope you add the words.

[Chris Burchfield]

Beenthere, thanks for the tips on the post.  Description really does help.