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31 entries from official and volunteer blogs posted the week of March 20th, 2017.

MacGyver Patch

Scoutmaster Musings March 15th, 2017

Plenty O Projects

Scoutmaster Musings March 13th, 2017

#BringBacktheBees

Scoutmaster Musings March 14th, 2017

Pedro

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A two part slide, the head wobbles as you move. The body has a hollow area drilled into it and the head has a heavy bolt glued into it which extends into the body hole. It...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Hikin' Boots

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Patch slide

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Goal Kick

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour My first thought was when was the last time goal posts like this was used? So it's a bit dated but the idea is there of kicking a field goal. Carved from maple the football...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Jointed Monkey

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Fun little slide to make. The time listed was for carving all the little parts that will be glued together to make the finished slide. Some parts were painted with craft...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Hawaiian-Aumakuas

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A great slide to carve with lot changeling parts. Carved from maple with a sharp knife with lots for breaks for sharping the blade. Painted with craft paint and sealed with...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Pine Cone

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: .5 hours Finishing: 1 hour A quick and easy slide to make. The best part of this is picking up a pine cone some time when your are attending an event you want to remember. A couple of coats of poly and a...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Seahorse

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour A seahorse carved from maple and painted with craft paints/finished with poly. I remember asking my parents about ordering seahorse out of the back of Boys Life Gift and...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Imbedded Arrowhead

Easter time sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3.5 hours Finishing: .5 hour When looking for a bone for this slide you never know where you are going to find it. After looking in the woods and hitting up hunter I know, I finally found the...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Knot Slide

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Cherry pie

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Found a jelly or cream cheese container at a restaurant for the pie tin and used whole black peppercorns for the cherries. The filling was spackle and I cut out a piece of pie...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Horse's bit

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve/make: 3 hours Finishing: 2 hour There was a couple of versions of this slide, one wooden and one metal. The wooden one was carved from maple with leather and painted with a chrome paint. The metal one is...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Sabbath Slide

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3 hours Finishing: 1 hour Another cow horn (from an earlier ebay order) project. This project took some prep as the horn I use needed to be sanded smooth as it was a bit hairy to begin with. Once ready,...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Mountain Sheep

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 2 hours Finishing: .5 hour Made from a cow horn (ordered off ebay), I sawed the basic shape and carved out the eyes and ears. Boiled the slide in water for an hour or more to make the horns pliable so I...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

A Nutty Squirrel

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Made from a couple of black walnuts the eye sockets were filed flat with file as were the bottom of the head and top of the body. The body and head were glued together, the...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Gourd Slide

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 4 hours Finishing: 2.5 hour Another set slides that took some time to find just the materials. In the end, I ordered a couple of dipper gourds off of ebay. Now this really surprised me when it came to...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Bone and horn

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Steer horns

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour The horns are carved from a piece of maple and painted with craft paint. Center is red felt with black thread on the ends. The plaque is also made from maple with an one step...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Bamboo

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour There is something really pleasant about the simplicity and elegance of these bamboo slides. All that is really needed is a saw and some sandpaper (also some cord for one)...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Bongo Drums

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Snowshoe

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 3.5 hours Finishing: 1 hour For a couple of years I tried to find a suitable material for the wooden frame and it struck me one day during summer camp watching the Scouts at Basketry Merit Badge that...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Corn on the Cob

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 2 hours Finishing: 2 hour Corn on the cob, some burgers on the grill and a cool ice tea in the warm breeze of a summer day. Easy to dream about it on a cold March day. Carved from maple, all this took...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Thermometers

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour A couple of slide that took some time to procure (well at least the second one). The first slide was made from a piece of thin hobby plywood as a background, the tube from a...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Sioux Chief

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: 3.5 hours Finishing: 2 hour Another slide carved during Merit Badge Uninversity at UMASS Amherst I think a couple of years ago. I had a couple of adults ask me about what I was carving while I was...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Beaded Thunderbird (Rosette)

Spring of 2016 Time to make: 2.5 hours I had some bead left over from some earlier projects so there was nothing to pick up. Just a needle, thread, and piece of white cloth and I was on my way to beading. I forgot how much I enjoyed this kind of...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Pueblo Indian Drum

Sometime between 2012 and 2015 Time to carve: .5 hours Finishing: 2 hour So a quick drilling a 3/4 inch hole in a dowel and cutting it to size. An old golfing glove for the leather (I golfed?) and some nylon cord for threading. Painted the drum...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Black Walnut

Some time between 2012 and 2015 Time to make: 1 hours Finishing: 2 hour The squirrels around my house find black walnuts somewhere around here (I've never been able to find it) and bury them in my yard. So when I saw this pattern, it was as easy as...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017

Hidden Money Pocket

Orginal brand: October 2010 Build: 2016 Time to build: 1.5 hours While I was at Wood Badge the staff had a brand and I just happened to have a piece of leather. The result was a great start to this slide. The front is the branded leather and the...

Channeling Whittlin Jim March 19th, 2017