Thanks. This was my first time carving oak leaves .and the 3rd doing fish scales. I did notice I have a tendency to cut the scales to deep. ... haha. Trust me I'm my own worst critic on everything I do. I can see every little flaw . I just always hope no one else sees them too . lol
it looks nice to me. i had the book. created my own scale pattern in corel draw. that way it's very easy to size them exactly as you want them. did 1 stock that way. i swore i'd never do another. the pattern drove me nuts carving it.
I really like carved stocks. I hate checkering. Its seams like they will have real nice figure english walnut then checker over the best figure in the wood. Might as well use cheap maple or plain old walnut.