First mini ornament

[awarner]

Off to district camp this weekend with the scouts and one of the leader challenges is to provide a monopoly board playing peice with a base no more than 3cm.
Lacking the usual imagination I thought I would play with a peice of ash and my trusty knife.
Took longer to burn the cup image than the carving duw to a low powered soldering iron.
Only made a few spoons and a fork etc in the past.

Thought I'd share

 

[Dreadhead]

nice work thats nice. should get yourself a cheap pyrography pen

 

[John Fenna]

Nice work!

 

[udamiano]

very nice.

 

[Dannytsg]

very nice. well done

 

[Mesquite]

That's a pretty little thing

 

[awarner]

Thanks, did not know the name for the actual tool for the markings. After searching for pyrography pen on amazon they look just like soldering irons with changable tips and interestingly the cheap ones are only 30w which is a lower rating than the first one I used.
The back end was finished at work using the gas soldering irn with a fine tip as I could not find the tips for my own unit at home so relied on electrickery powered iron instead.
Looking forward to having a play with more wood, not sure if I will get time at district camp this weekend but hope to.

 

[Grendel]

Good work Ashley.
I got Itchen south camp next weekend where i'll be playing with the bushcraft team again.

 

[Whittler Kev]

Thanks, did not know the name for the actual tool for the markings. After searching for pyrography pen on amazon they look just like soldering irons with changeable tips and interestingly the cheap ones are only 30w which is a lower rating than the first one I used.
The back end was finished at work using the gas soldering irn with a fine tip as I could not find the tips for my own unit at home so relied on electrickery powered iron instead.
Looking forward to having a play with more wood, not sure if I will get time at district camp this weekend but hope to.

They are. A professional one seems to use a loop instead of a tip

 

[Hushwing]

Good job. Interesting piece - mmmm might give this pyro thing a go sometime also - nice effect