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8th September 2020, 10:12 PM #1Novice Woodworker
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Log Carving
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My first attempt at carving having salvaged a log from tree fellers working in the street.
With no plan in mind I just started chipping away with a couple of Stanley chisels and a mallet cutting a few steps. I worked up and around the log and decided to add a few arches for doorways and then shaped a building on top.
It became a bigger, longer job than I'd expected but thoroughly engrossing and enjoyable. Not knowing what to do with the bare carved log I decided to make it into a diorama and added some vines and trees I made from dowel and sawdust and a water feature using hot glue and clear epoxy.
video shows the process. (Have sound on)
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9th September 2020, 04:50 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Excellent! From the thread title, I was expecting something more totemic, in view of where I live with paleo culture around me.
Poles always take a long time to carve, no surprises there.
I'm pleased to see no people.
That allows the viewer the fiction of being "first in the scene" with their imagination.
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9th September 2020, 06:50 AM #3
Very nice
And I agree, it lends itself to the imagination..
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9th September 2020, 06:40 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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That's just brilliant. Fantastic work. Well done and thanks for sharing it.
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12th September 2020, 08:51 AM #5
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12th September 2020, 11:49 AM #6Member
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Wow! This is spectacular.
If this is the beginning, I won't be surprised if your designs make it into the Myer windows.
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13th September 2020, 05:57 AM #7
very nice
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