Carving The Horse heads on the tent pols and how to do it

Weaver's log, Earthdate 30032019-03042019
For some days I have worked on shaping the horse heads and giving them some details. One thing I hade to workaround was to get the image on the opposite side from the one I drew it on. The thing I did was first move it to the other side of the paper to get it mirrored by putting it up against a window and drawing it after the lines that shined through. Then I put it against the wood and pushed a pen against the lines here and there and then marked the indents that gave in the wood, and finally connect the dots kind of thing. 

To cut the bangs on the head I started with pushing a chisel straight down to cut off the fibres of the wood so then I push it horizontally I don't risk to split the wood any longer than the line I want. One more thing that is good to do than taking out wood then carving figures is to after the straight down move, cut down to the depth that the chisel got down to. Like I did on the mouth. This shows you how deep you can go and then removing the hill that is left you have very little risk of taking out a big chunk that you don't want to. 

The legs I rested the wood on was so light that I moved it then I worked with the chisel so I put two buckets with bolts and nuts on top.

Lastly, before I show them all done is a before and after picture on how much difference it is between the raw just sawn and the carved. 

The things I have done here is not very difficult or advanced carving and if you practise on a scrap piece and take your time and not rush you can improve your tent too.