Closer viewing of the bird after the head was fitted revealed that the head was too high for the body and for the desired pose. I chose to deal with this not by cutting the neck shorter but rather by reducing the height of the body where the head attaches.
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| I placed the head on the body and estimated how much lower the head needed to be. I then used a gauge to mark on the head where I wanted the top to be. |
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| I then measured this using a transparent ruler at about 10 cm. The photo is taken at an angle and exaggerates the measurement. |
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| I then placed some tape on a drill bit at 10 cm. to use a a height gauge |
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| I drilled a series of holes, holding the drill vertically, to the depth of 10 cm. |
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| The tungsten carbide burr was used to evacuate the wood to the depth of the holes. |
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| The head was place back on and it fit nearly perfectly requiring almost no fine tuning |
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| I was now able to take away the wood at the neck and shape teh body to be able to sonnect the two pieces. |
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| Front/side view...looking much better. |
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| Side view....looking better |
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| Head on view...yep this is teh height. Something still bothers me about this but will continue until I can figure it out. |
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| Nice flow of the neck from the head to the breast. The picture is darker because I am using small wattage overhead lighting to create shadows so I can see the flow better than when the bench is glowing with florescent light. |
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| Good body symmetry for this pose from the rear view of the bird. |
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