Trying Something New With A Chainsaw!

This Carving of the Month was sponsored by Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau, home of the Chainsaw Carver's Rendezvous. Hey it's Chainsaw Joanna and welcome to August's Carving of the Month. So today this carving is going to be a little bit different than our normal carving and also we're using a different type of wood. So let's hop in a skid steer and go back by the pipeline. It's time to use this beautiful piece of wood that's laying here. This is catalpa and the last time that I got to play with catalpa was with Scott Dowell. I've been dying to try this wood and you're probably like Jenna but wait there's rot in this what are you gonna do with this? We're actually going to use this rot to our advantage but first we have to cut a couple cookies. All right we got the 881 and those are some big cookies. All right let's load up these cookies on the forks and bring them back to the shop. Lovely people. Okay so the reason why this carving is going to be different than most other carvings is because typically when we're carving the log is not stood up this way. It's normally face down like this but I stood up the cookie so it's just sitting on the brim of the log and I'm going to hollow it out more. That's this rot here is okay in this situation because I'm going to cut all this out and I'm going to have a carving somewhere in here. I'm going to do a bear. It's going to be a fun cute little laying bear who's just enjoying his day. So let's get to drawing. Okay so even though I drew from the outside in I'm actually going to carve from the inside out. That saw is probably really loud. It's the exhaust. It's a ripsaw exhaust so it's been ported but I do notice a huge difference between because I have two 201s right so I do definitely notice the difference of efficiency when it comes from the ported versus just the stock exhaust. This thing rips. I mean you can hear it. It rips. I feel like a superhuman when I'm running this off. It is loud but it's fast. It feels great. When you're doing your carving like this you want to be pushing back but while you're pushing back you want to make sure that everything makes sense from all angles. So my goal is to match the front side with the back side. I don't want my back to be very flat but if it needs to be flat I'd rather have the back side be more flat than the front. Hi Sanjo. I'm going to use this multi cutter here and give a nice big bark texture along this hole out here. I'm just painting the eyes real quick while my batteries are still charging because I still have the ears I need to do but while the battery is charging I'll let this paint dry too. So I'm burning the outer rim of the piece here and then I'm going to flap sand it down so it smooths everything out and I'll flap sand the bear and do some staining and then he'll be done. He's so close to being done. I think I need another container. And here is the carving of the month. A cute little bear. It's a different type of wood and a different type of carving. I've never really made a carving like this and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I think he's really really cute and he's just chilling here. Definitely but I hope you enjoyed this video and this carving and we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye. This carving of the month was sponsored by Pennsylvania Great Outdoors Visitors Bureau home of the Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous.