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it really really is like sculpting, i'm using a razor sharp sloyd knife and i am shaving it smaller at best, any more than that and i lift wedges tearing across the grain, only been carving for about 2 hrs and i have had the knife back on the honing stone every 15 minutes just to keep the shaving possible, no rush it will be a something
I eventually had to put it down mate, fingers and thumbs are all tender, knife looks like i have been cutting knots in kin dried oak or summick, the pink ivory is totally knot free but so bloody dense
Sounds like you're close to overdoing it with the hand and your knife edge (but I know progress is addictive)....I have a piece of pink ivory I was saving for handles. Might whittle on an edge just to see how crazy it is to carve.
Lovely spoons! And it looks like your chip carving decoration is getting more intricate. Is there any significance to the patterns ( some tribal influence perhaps?).
Sounds like you're close to overdoing it with the hand and your knife edge (but I know progress is addictive)....I have a piece of pink ivory I was saving for handles. Might whittle on an edge just to see how crazy it is to carve.
I should have put the knife down long before i did but i was enjoying myself despite the finger n thumb pain, mine are still in training from 20 years of office work to being an outdoorsman, slow n painful progress but they be getting tougher callous by callous and blister by blister, the wood is brutal on the knife edge though, spent a good hour when i was done this morning just restoring the edge fully
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