Everybody Loves Dragons

So I was looking through some old projects the other day and came across something I had done for my Day Shade. As I was participating in a ‘Medievalish’ group, I had one that was canvas and poles as opposed to one of those ‘pop-up’ ones. One day I looked at my poles and thought…. “I can do better than little spherical fence post toppers.”

I’ve always been attracted to the ‘Viking Aesthetic’ so I pondered what I could do.

My family and friends had been using this symbol to identify ourselves so I thought “That’ll do”

I took the design of the head of the twisty dragon

TRIVIA QUIZ:  How can you tell the difference between a Norse Snake or a Dragon?  Dragons have feet!  But the word in Norse for both is Ormr.

I laid the design on some poster board then cut the pattern out of that.  I transferred that to some 2x8 yellow pine that I had hanging out in the garage.

About 8 hours later working with files, rasps and a blet sander I had this. Man! That took a lot longer than I thought it would!  So about a week later I had these:

To play on my wife’s OCD you will note that none of the Dragons are the same.  They are all different in some way.

And here they all are. :D

That was a fun project!

-Russ