Woodsrunner kit RELIEF carving

[Jim Kibler]

So I wasn’t too motivated for the routine shop work yesterday, so I decided to spend a little time turning one of our incised carved stocks into relief by hand.  Just the area behind the cheek is done.

[bob in the woods]

Wow ! 

[Spalding]

^^What he said.

Bob

[Beaverman]

Nice, hope your doing a how to vid series so when I order my next one I can see how brave I am!

[hanshi]

A bit too much carving, IMHO, but it IS captivating and gorgeous!

[Bob Gerard]

Wow, mister! You could get a job making guns and stuff!


Seriously though, you’re so skilled an artist and wood sculptor. Very inspirational 🙂

[Albert D]

That looks great.

[Jim Kibler]

Thanks.  Any guess as to the maximum depth of the relief?

[Albert D]

Thanks.  Any guess as to the maximum depth of the relief?

To my untrained eye it looks like the depth is an illusion. It looks like maybe the edges are rounded to give it shape.

[mountainman]

Wow that's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm guessing the relief is about 32nd deep.

[Jim Kibler]

Wow that's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm guessing the relief is about 32nd deep.

You got it!  About .030” or 1/32”. 

[JEH]

Put it together and sign it and i'll take it!

[Albert D]

Wow that's awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm guessing the relief is about 32nd deep.

You got it!  About .030” or 1/32”.

This is really helpful to learn from. Thanks for posting it and all you do.

[TDM]

That looks really good Jim. I thought about trying that but chickened out. Just got mine put together today.

[Kmcmichael]

Looks great!

[Jim Kibler]

That looks really good Jim. I thought about trying that but chickened out. Just got mine put together today.

That looks great!  You did a good job with the finish.

[monro1066]

It would be appreciated that a video would be uploaded
.............if you took a video .......
.yre handiwork is not that of an artist but definitely  an artisan....
so well done
D

[TDM]

Thanks Jim.

[dadybear1]

SUPER NICE WORK JIM---WOW!!!!

[bama]

Jim, what you have done is exactly what I was thinking about. I just went a little to deep with what I did. I can see now that I would not have to go as deep and the carving will look just fine. Thanks again for a great product and I can see many nice guns being built around this platform. Thanks again for the great tour of your facility.

[Algae]

You knocked another one out of the park!!!

Absolutly gorgeous!

Al Jenkins

[wpalongrifle]

1/16

[oldtravler61]

  Jim I made a early statement on your kit carving about the dash lines.
  Your carving here is exactly what I was referring to.  This is in my opinion SO much cleaner looking without those lines. Your skills are impressive to say the least...Beautiful...

[Adrie luke]

Jim

Your guns are so precise that you can't match it by hand
I love the new techniques.

Next, silver inlay with CNC??

Adrie

[Jim Kibler]

Yeah, we’ll be doing some silver inlay work in time.  We’ll cut, engrave and form the inlays to fit an inlet in the stocks.

I’ll also be doing some CNC relief carving.  The first iteration won’t be nearly as elaborate as this, but rather be fairly strong and become one with the stock form.

We’re also well along the Fowler project.  This will have some standard English shell carving and lock moldings along with a cast thumb piece standard.

Thanks you all for the support.

Jim