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Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard with SxS

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joe cieslowski
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Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard with SxS

Post by joe cieslowski »

I make one of these every few years. Just doesn't seem to be a lot of call for them?

This is all HDU, about 4' long. Painted with latex and gold leafed. The ends are made in two layers.....each is 1" thick.

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Each end takes about an hour and a half to carve.....doing the undercuts on the back and sanding takes another two hours.

I took quite a few photos for a step by step if anyone is interested.

Thanks,
Joe,

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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

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Hi Joe,
Yes, Please post your step-by-steps on this project. Looks like you already posted a few of them.

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Noah Moore
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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

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that looks awesome! id love to see more as well.
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Ingrid Mager
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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

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Simple......yet sooooo pretty. Must be in the crafstmanship.....in that last picture, one can see your sculpting is so smooth and right on, it literally looks like a thick ribbon bending and not something rigid.
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bernie clites
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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

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that is soooo cool! Love it!

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joe cieslowski
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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

Post by joe cieslowski »

Thanks every one!

I posted a step by step for this on another site.........

Here it is.. http://signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77250

Why do it twice?

Glad you all liked it.

Joe
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Anthony Bennett
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Re: Traditional, hand carved, ribbon sternboard

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Thanks Joe, nice step by step.
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