Many years ago i use to make a lot of small "deer" to sell and give away as gifts. I thought it would be fun to make one again and show you how i do that with pictures...
I decided to make it out of a white pine i harvested some time ago...
I sawed this pine into 3x8's...
Because i damaged one of them when moving the pile, i set it aside to use for ?? Anyway, it's air dried now, so i cut a piece of it off, and ran it through my planer...
Once it was planed on both sides, i put it on the jointer and straightened one edge...
With one edge straightened, it went on the table saw, and i sawed off the end to get it nice and square...
Then i sawed off the length of piece i needed...
and then ripped it to the width i needed too...
With that done, i set the pattern i drew up, on the piece and penciled around it...
And started following the line with my bandsaw...
Once i had all the sawing done, it looked like this...
So, i removed the pieces, to expose the deer...
And started sanding the saw marks off...
With that done, i threw on some oil to finish it!! It looks kinda nice standing there, with the racks of it's "cousins" in the back ground... lol
Sooo, if your not a deer hunter, that's how you can still get yourself a deer!!
Hope you liked the picts...
DM
