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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Christopher, post: 251665, member: 1646&quot;]Thanks Kevin.</p><p>I am unfortunately a novice when it comes to wood carving techniques and always eager to learn. The questions I have are; If it was first turned on a lathe wouldn&#039;t it have a more, for lack of a better term, cylindrical appearance? If you look at it the back part especially it has a very flat appearance and all of the widest points on the figure are consistently even with the widest points of the base which appears very rectangular almost like it was taken from block. And secondly, if it was first cut out with a machine,&nbsp; why bother wasting your time chiseling and chipping away at the underside parts that nobody sees when you could conceivably just cut it out with the machine (a router type bit or something along those lines) to achieve the desired shape and leave it at that? It seems Like a lot of work to give a hand carved look to the parts that nobody is really gonna see anyway.&nbsp; Like I said I&#039;m a novice so any insight would be great. As far as the holes on the bottom It was suggested that it might not be screw holes from a lathe faceplate but rather a base may have been attached to it so it could be worked without moving or tipping but, again, I just don&#039;t know anything about modern woodworking.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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