Minor Hockey Player

Here is a figure the I made for my brother's birthday on October 11. I thought it would be fun to make a figure based on him as a boy in one of his minor hockey uniforms. From start to finish this figure took about a day to complete. For this one I am including some pictures of what the figure looked like before it was painted so that it's easier to see how many pieces were used in it's construction. While at first glance it doesn't look like it, this figure is actually built out of 19 separate pieces, some of them actually functioning a little like a skeleton. What I mean by this is that some parts, such as the arms and the gloves, have a separate internal piece of wood connecting them. What I did was drill out a hole in the lower portion of the arm as well as through most of the glove, and then insert and glue in place a smaller rounded piece of wood. I did the same thing with the hips. For the lower legs, skates and base I did pretty much the same thing except this time I had the internal piece coming from the lower legs go down through the skates and deep into the base. This should make the figure far more secure than if I had just glued the skates to the base for instance. Like most of my more recent figures the head is able to turn and is also removable so it can be placed on another body. The figure is about three inches tall, including the base.

Back in business!

After going for months without being able to use a wood lathe, I'm happy to report that things are finally looking up. At my new (actually 110 years old) house, I have an old pig barn that will eventually be at least partly converted into my woodworking shop. It smells in there, it's dirty and there is still a long way to go till I have everything cleaned up and set up the way I want it, but at least I now have the lathe and some of my other tools set up and ready to use. I have actually been able to use the lathe a few times in the past week and begin work on a few new figures. A new Elmo figure is now complete and will be looking for a new home soon and four more figures are currently in the works. I should be able to get some more work done on these four tomorrow after I get back from a nice morning at church in Charlottetown. It's fun to be back at it!