Critique Request Bulino progress photo

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Progress photo of a spyderco bug. I’m engraving a bald eagle on in a “bulino” style. About 15 hours in so far. Tools I’m using are a 2 needle points one made from an old 1/16 FG burr and one made from a 1/8 carbide blank tapered to .050 then a fine point. Also a Phil Cogan bulino point done with a Lindsay template for the short lines near the transition from white feathers on the neck to body.

Any critique would be appreciated.
 

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Mike, Good anatomy on the Eagle. J.J.
Thanks! I uploaded the photo of the eagle to procreate, lowered the opacity of the image then traced the main outlines of the body feathers and head features. I’m not the best at drawing so this was the best I could think of to get the basic outline and anatomy right.

This was the transfer I worked from. I cut the lines with a 70 degree graver then went in with the details freehand.
 

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A bit more progress and one photo which shows the knife in natural lighting around 8:00am.
 

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Mike, I really like bulino and the best teacher I have is Chris DeCammilis ( spelling?). I have his beginners download and I believe its pretty good. I have been giving time to the dots and dashes in birds that don't fly, but just stand, and I go over it with d&d with no feather structure or very little. Chris's download shows the structure of the feathers in the primary and secondary application. Check it out............Rob p.s. this is kinda a sneaky way to learn!
 

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Mike, I really like bulino and the best teacher I have is Chris DeCammilis ( spelling?). I have his beginners download and I believe its pretty good. I have been giving time to the dots and dashes in birds that don't fly, but just stand, and I go over it with d&d with no feather structure or very little. Chris's download shows the structure of the feathers in the primary and secondary application. Check it out............Rob p.s. this is kinda a sneaky way to learn!
I’ll give it a look! Lots of people have recommended that same video. I guess I’ll cough up the bucks for it thanks!
 
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