Just a short update to note that progress is being made. I have nearly finished with the power tools altogether and have switched from the ArborTech woodcarving disk to a Flapdisk, a disk of overlapping layers of sandpaper that still removes large quantities of wood, but not nearly as indiscriminately. I expect I still have a couple of more days work with the Flapdisk and then he comes inside and I start carving and finishing.