Hi all,
I thought I would share some photos of my first finished carving (as of about 10 mins ago). I say first "finished" carving because I started a spoon before this which still needs a lot of work.
All honest opinions and constructive criticism are most welcome.
A little while back I met up with some of the lads at the Brockwell Wood Mini Meet. This is where I began work on the spoon, but I also took home a smaller log (beech I think) to work on at home. I didn't touch it for a while because I had no tools but later I decided that I would see what I could do with just my knife.
So I started to carve out a face. I ended up needing a saw to make 4 cuts. Other than that I just used my knife, some sand-paper, and a small screw to widen the hole for the twine. After carving the face I realised that I should have made it useable. It looked a bit stupid sticking out of the wood. I think this was partly because it was only a face and not a head. Anyways I ended up making it into a spatula.
The twine is cut from a length of nettle cordage I made a few weeks ago from dead nettles. I understand it's best to get them in late summer, but I wanted to try out the techniques so I just used what was around.
When finished I coated it in Red Palm Fruit Oil. I have no idea if that is of any use or not.?
Oh, and for scale, the entire thing goes from the inside of my elbow to the inside of my wrist, which makes it 25 cm long. The face is 4cm wide at the cheeks.
Anyways, here are the pictures:
Cheers
Mark
Why cant I upload pictures properly? I click the picture thing, put in the link, it comes up with
I thought I would share some photos of my first finished carving (as of about 10 mins ago). I say first "finished" carving because I started a spoon before this which still needs a lot of work.
All honest opinions and constructive criticism are most welcome.
A little while back I met up with some of the lads at the Brockwell Wood Mini Meet. This is where I began work on the spoon, but I also took home a smaller log (beech I think) to work on at home. I didn't touch it for a while because I had no tools but later I decided that I would see what I could do with just my knife.
So I started to carve out a face. I ended up needing a saw to make 4 cuts. Other than that I just used my knife, some sand-paper, and a small screw to widen the hole for the twine. After carving the face I realised that I should have made it useable. It looked a bit stupid sticking out of the wood. I think this was partly because it was only a face and not a head. Anyways I ended up making it into a spatula.
The twine is cut from a length of nettle cordage I made a few weeks ago from dead nettles. I understand it's best to get them in late summer, but I wanted to try out the techniques so I just used what was around.
When finished I coated it in Red Palm Fruit Oil. I have no idea if that is of any use or not.?
Oh, and for scale, the entire thing goes from the inside of my elbow to the inside of my wrist, which makes it 25 cm long. The face is 4cm wide at the cheeks.
Anyways, here are the pictures:
Cheers
Mark
Why cant I upload pictures properly? I click the picture thing, put in the link, it comes up with
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