Your COVID19 responses (projects you’re doing), let’s see ‘em, and mine (86 splitback whittler mod)

Most of our cattle are Angus, but I have a handful of longhorns that I keep around because they look cool. One of the cows died last spring, so she is my latest shop project and is going to be wall art for my living room.
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For some reason the skull cracked in several places, so I started filling the cracks with superglue and sanding the skull and horns tonight.
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I’ll post more pictures when I finish it up. Hopefully it will be quick because it takes up a big chunk of my workbench.
 
Sacto said:
Most of our cattle are Angus, but I have a handful of longhorns that I keep around because they look cool. One of the cows died last spring, so she is my latest shop project and is going to be wall art for my living room.
YDrnZ7y.jpg

For some reason the skull cracked in several places, so I started filling the cracks with superglue and sanding the skull and horns tonight.
pB1rHO6.jpg

QwTaUPJ.jpg

I’ll post more pictures when I finish it up. Hopefully it will be quick because it takes up a big chunk of my workbench.
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Cleaning those skulls can be a lot of work. One of the ranches I worked for raised Coriente cattle. The owner would stack the old skulls in his garage, the pile was huge. When we had down-time from work, my job was to go to the garage and start cleaning skulls.
 
JohnDF said:
Cleaning those skulls can be a lot of work. One of the ranches I worked for raised Coriente cattle. The owner would stack the old skulls in his garage, the pile was huge. When we had down-time from work, my job was to go to the garage and start cleaning skulls.
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Dermestid beetles do a great job, taxidermists use them for European skull mounts.
 
JohnDF said:
Cleaning those skulls can be a lot of work. One of the ranches I worked for raised Coriente cattle. The owner would stack the old skulls in his garage, the pile was huge. When we had down-time from work, my job was to go to the garage and start cleaning skulls.
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JB in SC said:
Dermestid beetles do a great job, taxidermists use them for European skull mounts.
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I left it out in the pasture since the spring and it looked like that when I checked on it yesterday, after I peeled off what was left of the hide. I left it on the ground and put an old water trough upside down on top of it to hide it (we get people wandering through from the casino and railroad). I think the trough allowed the bugs to really work on it without birds bothering the bugs. Now the work starts, hand sanding it to get it nice enough to hang in the house. It’s just like finishing an enormous knife handle. :D
 
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I patched the shield hole on the trapper and attempted to jig the Olsen Bowie. Not as regular as I had hoped to make it. Plenty more to jig, though.
I might see what a rasp does for grippiness. This glue-lam stuff is pretty slippery, which is the point of the exercise. A rasp should obscure my ridiculous pattern, too, but the grip is the main thing.
 
Wow, I would have never imagined a year ago that I was going to resurrect this thread.

Covid still here and has increased with a vengeance here in Ontario where things are at the breaking point.
Hard lock down for 6 weeks, the variants ravaging the province.

I just opened my little shop after a long winter.
A while ago I had glued pieces of leftover hardwoods ( mahogany, maple, walnut, ash).

I am going to brush up my woodturning skills, see if I can turn a hollow vessel for potpourri and fit it to the metal cover you see in the picture.

Wish me luck :)

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Here is a Scagle inspired knife I forged for my dad for Christmas this year. Started as a 1/4 inch billet of 5160. I meant to leave more forged scale, but getting the blade geometry how I wanted it removed most of the marks I intended on leaving.

This was only my second attempt at a forged knife. First hidden tang.

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CelloDan said:
Wow, I would have never imagined a year ago that I was going to resurrect this thread.

Covid still here and has increased with a vengeance here in Ontario where things are at the breaking point.
Hard lock down for 6 weeks, the variants ravaging the province.

I just opened my little shop after a long winter.
A while ago I had glued pieces of leftover hardwoods ( mahogany, maple, walnut, ash).

I am going to brush up my woodturning skills, see if I can turn a hollow vessel for potpourri and fit it to the metal cover you see in the picture.

Wish me luck :)

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Good luck!
 
Since this thread popped back up, I’ll post this here. I finished this one up today. It’s a green river blank that I reshaped the blade a bit, added the sharpening choil, and added the scales. They are red g10 liners with leather micarta and copper pins. It’s basically little strips of shredded leather in resin. It’s a little hard to photograph, but interesting material.
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Now I just have to figure out how to carry it. I think I’ll try to make a pocket sheath when I have time.
 
Hollowing dry hardwoods glued together proved to be quite difficult with the basic tools I have but we are getting there.

An open bowl would be no problem. Getting under the rim to hollow around the form is the hard part.

Hopefully I don’t wreck it tomorrow as I try to finish it

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