The Alamo

[WalterF]

Finished the sheath.

[WalterF]

Wanted to try some Celtic inspired carving. This will be a field notes cover.

[Hags]

Grew up in Texas.  Been to the Alamo several times.  Nice work. 

[WalterF]

4 hours ago, Hags said:

Grew up in Texas.  Been to the Alamo several times.  Nice work. 

Thank you, There is something special to walk where things happened, I love history.

 

Finished the tooling, waiting on the antique to dry. Will finish in the morning. Had to much open space on the rear to leave.

[MarshalWill]

Nice Celtic design work. Looks mighty good.

[WalterF]

5 hours ago, MarshalWill said:

Nice Celtic design work. Looks mighty good.

Thank you, it was a nice change, beveller and backgrounder only.

 

Finished the field notes, Gini liked it when I showed it to her, started adding things to make it special. Each symbol has various meanings.

 

[MarshalWill]

Looks good finished. Thumbs-up!

[WalterF]

On 11/23/2025 at 10:13 PM, MarshalWill said:

Looks good finished. Thumbs-up!

Appreciate it.

 

Took a class on detailed floral and figure carving, this walltet back was a challenge. Giving it a go, having to go slow as the beveling side changes mid line quite often. This walllet is a "hold my beer" lifting some petals and leaves so just a show piece. Probably another day or so on it.

[MarshalWill]

Great practice piece. Nothing gets skills honed more than good old practice.

[WalterF]

On 11/26/2025 at 10:03 PM, MarshalWill said:

Great practice piece. Nothing gets skills honed more than good old practice.

Thank you, yes Sir working on my weak area. Pictoral and Figure are my favorite and floral was lagging. 

 

Finished the left half of the wallet and started getting sick, it is sitting till I am better. A head knife came, cost 25.00 missed mine and didn't want another nice one. Surprisingly it was extremely sharp. Can I find shortcommings, sure but for the price it works well above it. Made a sheath for it don't want any red fluid leaking.