John Lynch says:

OK, finished up to the point where you stopped, but only as an observer at this stage. I cannot afford to make the investment in stock wood at this stage of my game of life. I still feel like I learned a lot and also now have a goal of.around a dozen new gouges I need to invest in. Like that Pyle gouge used in 47 or there abouts, and several of the Henry Taylor bent gouges and maybe 3 or 4 more specialty gouges from pfiel. I need to review again the various special.bent, back bent, spoon and angled and curved number 2s that you have recommended for those tight and undercarved segments in the fruit and flower arena from this Grinling Gibbons project. It will of course take me months to purchase those as I go along. I wish I had waited on investing in gun carving as I spent a couple hundred there that would have been better spent on these gouges that I will gain much more use out of.. carving two specific rifle stocks may be my first original goal but I have been completely side tracked by wanting to learn the more detailed style of Gibbons and learning how to do floral and other plant arrangements etc. Like creating a fair sized vine of fair to large 🍇 grape bunches, with surrounding leaves ND intermixed floral for the back wall of an over hanging cabinate in my kitchen that sits above a large grill type center piece in my kitchen AND the Grinling Gibbons wall archway with posts on either side between my dinning room and living room. This is roughly an 8 foot curved opening with another matching curved entrance, same size, between living room and sun porch on the house. Two VERY LARGE projects similar to what you have designed and started as your primary focus of your school.