Sin Cerebro

**Fekit** · 16th November 2023, 04:23 AM

Hello Everyone, it's been a while, I hope you are all well.

So I've put together some tools here in Mexico and have started, well, making stuff. I purchased most of a full complement of Arbortech gear out of the US and some small hand chisels etc here in Mexico.

The wood here is, so far, a bit of a challenge. I can only really work with pine at the moment as there really isn't much more available where I live. And I can tell you pine is not real good when your trying to do any kind of fine detail. I added a wedge of pine on the front to do the nose to save wasting time on excess wood removal.

Anyway, I thought I'd drop my first Mexican sculpture for anyone that's interested to have a look at.

The title of the piece is "Sin Cerebro", "Without a Brain", and is a surrealist interpretation of what is now a very real and very troubling worldwide phenomenon. I will save any further explanation and leave you to your own interpretation, unless of course someone specifically asks.

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**ClaudeF** · 16th November 2023, 08:04 AM

Excellent work, especially in pine! The face is great with details that are perfect.

Claude

**Fekit** · 16th November 2023, 09:07 AM

Thanks Claude.

Yeah, Pine. I will need to try and find something that I can soak the pine in so as to stabilise it. I don't mind using it and it's blond, to the shadows pop a lot better.

The image below is a test I done in a tiny bit of red cedar, works lovely, very satisfying to work with. The eyes in the pine ...... not so good.

Test Eye.jpg

**TTIT** · 16th November 2023, 08:14 PM

Love it

. Would love to see how you did the hair/flames - I struggle badly with negative gaps like that

**Fekit** · 17th November 2023, 01:15 AM

I'm glad you like it

Yeah, the flames. AAaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh. They were difficult. It would have been easier to remove all of the wood behind the first layer of flames and then just glued in pre-made flames in behind each successive layer. But I didn't do it that way.

So I drew in the first layer of flames and cut around that with a knife creating a stop cut then removed all of the wood "behind" the flames with an ATech power chisel. About 8-10mm down roughly for each layer. Getting in behind the flames was done with steel dremel bits and cleaned up (pre-sanding) with diamond bits because the pine gets a bit too hairy to just dive straight in with some sandpaper.

And once you've done that you end up with a clean canvas on the next layer to do it all again.

The face was mostly done with hand chisels, gouges and knives.

**ClaudeF** · 17th November 2023, 11:02 AM

One possible source of wood for you might be broken pallets. Find a furniture store or appliance store and check behind them - if a pallet gets broken, they usually throw them away... This is not very complicated, but it was a piece of oak from a broken pallet (carved for my wife, using a repurposed screwdriver and a pocketknife about 55 years ago...

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**Fekit** · 18th November 2023, 12:43 AM

Thanks for the suggestion. I suspect that there are already Mexicans who do recycle those, or at the very least use the pine ones as firewood. I imagine anything of any quality, regardless of it's condition, are held under tight security and repaired.

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