Chainsaw carving an owl part 1 basic shapes rough out 

Thanks, I try, but I'm not great at camera or lighting,so itz a non stop trial and error here...

Wow, thanks, that's a real compliment... I have several videos on many different subjects, and continue to make more, itspretty endless in my world, it's a non stop discovery zone for me. Best of luck to you, and have a great journey with it! I've enjoyed it for over 20 years, and still find new things to explore with chainsaw art.

My first subject I carved was hands, big hands out of massive chunks of oak and maple... it was easy for me,because I have two hands, so always have had them as my models when I needed a subject to draw, or sculpt.i was a very inspiration hungry kid, but was very uninspired, I grew up in the woods, and had everything a kids imagination would need, every day sensory overload, but it was too overwhelming for me, I was happiest with the pile of dust and chips I made, never cared for the subject...so I just went with the flow most days, no direction, no goals, just make stuff, just copy what I saw... took many years to accept that I'm more of a process artist, than a masterpiece artist, but that's my joy in life!

@@badasswood Just know this, you inspired an old dog in Texas to try something new & out of the box. I may be 53 on paper but upstairs I feel young. My dad was a master carpenter for 40 years. I inherited all his wood working tools when he passed last year. I almost sold those tools but something kept me from doing it. I'm glad I kept it all! I have a barn & a shop full of new and antique wood working tools. Guns too! I kind of hit the jackpot on wood tools like: Lathes, planers, ban saws, sanding in all directions, you name it & I might have it. Pop was kind of famous around here for his skills. He did all the fancy detail work like magic. I live in the house he built. He passed away 5 years after finishing his house. If I can do metal art cut-outs I think I can carve wood! Thanks again to my new teacher! I subbed & will catch up on your older videos... I'll post a video of my completed bear carving. No matter how crappy it might look. Maybe I'll make a Tiki statue? My main hobby right now is high end remote control 4x4 trucks. Shooting guns is a close second. I can do that out here on the ranch whenever I want. Right off the back porch! I'm missing something & I think carving wood with a chain saw might fill that void!

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i keep hearin that, and im just starting to get info into videos...lol...

Thank you, I often Have a hard time reminding myself to just go carve, and turn the camera on...lol...

Lol... read the other comments and check out the updated owl vid... i know the music sucks,but people keep watchin tjis one and i have to keep the lights on bro...

Thanks. The audio here is about as bad as it gets...lol! This is why I stopped using editor provided music, volume levels, and timing came out nothing like it was adjusted in the editor... thanks for viewing, and understanding that we aren't professionally paid actors, or professional video makers.😁

Proportions is less important than character with owls. I make them with over sized heads,or over sized bodies... many different looks, michaelangelo carved some nasty lookin owls way back then , I use that as reference,but also those cheesy owl candles and porcelain statues people collect. Lotta owl reference and variety out there, check out the 1970's clash of the titans movie, or just look at images via Google search... nothing you do is wrong, just go with it...

Thanks I appreciate that. Being down with the eye surgery I've kind of got a little bummed and not being able to actually carve, but I think today is the day. I'm going to get after that owl

Thank you!

Sounds good but i dont understand 😅. Thank you for watchin

Hey!😁yeah it got choppy, I'm tryin to figure it out. Was a real treat chatting with you!

@@badasswood same here! And great to follow you around your shop.

I still cant believe the crappy music hasnt gotten this video banned!🤣🤣

Stihl mse 180 c with 1/4 pitch conversion and stock stihl .043 guage bar and chain

Turn off the music ,to loud and its crap, no need for it .

@@malcolmhaynes4127 lol... yeah i dont do that any more got other good owl vids up recently...same thing goin over step by step but no crappy music... i was learnin how to use youtube editors with tjis one and they arent very good... neither is the music they provide...

Oops, sorry, it's a question ! 😉

😉😁 which saw? Sorry i have so many🤣🤣

@@badasswood The MS 141C 🙂

i dont sell them much

Whats that?

😅😅 thats why i made other owl videos, its impossible to get rid of the crappy youtube provided music from 5 years ago in a published video😅😅 if you guys make my new videos with no crappy music as popular as these ones, i promise you ill delete these ones😅😅😅

Yes know i guess people dont understand how difficult youtube makes it to edit after a video is published. The only option they give us is to replace the entire audio with other crappy music . These older videos are what they are sorry. I stopped using the garbage musuc provided many years ago yet people act like its so easy to go back to fix a video i posted three or four years ago.its not that simple sorry it bugs you but peo0le watch them and i need the metrics.

Thank you! Yep, I'm bad at aditing, once it's published, I can't reedit, because phone space, I have to delete it& it edited on other than RU-vid .thank you for three great input.

So turn the volume down, it's all I could get at the time, dont worry tho, I'm spending my life savings on video making classes, not like I'm makin any money doing videos, teaching people how to carve.