Volume 12 , Issue 35

NW Okie's Ramblings & Sculpture

We are at the sanding and smoothing stage of our sculpturing on our Eagle Totem. You can view the last 27 days updates of our sculpturing from beginning to end, on our NW Okie Flickr - Eagle Totem Sculpture site.

I just need to do some sanding with fine sandpaper to smooth up the rough edges before I seal the finish product with (I think) a beeswax preservative. Does anyone have any other preservative suggestions that I could use to treat this ponderosa pine, greenwood piece that will be an inside sculpture? I would love to hear, learn of your suggestions.

I am still Googling the web for a couple of eagle glass eyes to place my Eagle totem. They say the correct eyes for bald eagles are hard to find. Yellow is not the correct color. They should be "straw" colored, which will look yellow when put in the carving. Secondly, eagles have a limbus ring around the eye. This is a dark circle around the edge of the eye. You can order eyes with these two specifications from: www.tohickanglasseyes.com and vandykestaxidermy.com. I also found some glass eyes at www.leevalley.com that were the size (10mm) that might work. I might have to paint the black limbus edge around the outside of the eye, though.   |  View or Add Comments (1 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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