Thread: Towel Rack (for really small towels) - WIP

Wow, that's really out there, love it, similar to Gehard Demetz and his block children. What wood are you using for your
blocks?

Youre a crack up Raav, looking great!

cooool !

Yeah Demetz...someone else pointed that out and I did look him up, well anyone called Demetz seems to be a champion carver. There's a whole clan of them. The gaps are kind of central to everything though. (better aeration - faster drying towels!)

It's poplar. They come in little strips and boards from Masters.

Seb, Copeau - thanks.

Well, it's certainly going to be the most creative towel rack I have seen, there's also another spot in the lower section you could extend for a small towel but a bit risque. I have looked at Poplar in Masters before, it's quite pricey, looks ok to carve though.

Well I could move into an adult range perhaps? certainly a lot of innuendo about 'wood' gets bandied around!

Poplar isn't cheap. My tiny armful cast about $120. It's pretty firm (much more than I was expecting) and seems to take detail ok. For a mining outpost - at least there are a few options.

This looks like it could be very interesting. I like to see what others are carving.
To be honest seeing as it is a towel rack I thought the hole left in the head was a soap storage.

Without a doubt, you are the master of glue-ups! I wish I could get the hang of that cause it really expands where you can go with subject size an matter. The concept looks really interesting too. I'm glad someone else on this forum favours poplar. It may not be huon pine but its pretty good if you don't want too fine a detail. I've only ever bought it once though. It's pretty easy to find growing here in SA. I use it in my schools as students find it easy to work and easy to find supplies of it later.

Hi Raav.
Excellent work. Is your glue-up similiar to ship figurehead carving. I'm interested in life sized carvings. There is a lot poplar here in my part of the states. We call them Tulip trees and they're our state tree. Indiana, USA. Andy

Originally Posted by Diggerdelaney

This looks like it could be very interesting. I like to see what others are carving.
To be honest seeing as it is a towel rack I thought the hole left in the head was a soap storage.

Yea - really tiny hand carved soaps. Brilliant.
Probably have to waterproof it. dang.

Andy - I couldn't tell you a thing about figureheads, so i don't really know. As for life size carving - avoid. Just avoid!

Whittling - thanks. Glueing adds another level of tedium and time, but also allows a breakdown of complexity into manageable chunks. This project however is still freakin' me out. Like a wood puzzle that no-one else can solve....but perhaps that's carving in general?

poplar tree got blown over in a recent storm. It was largely woodchipped before I chanced upon it. So annoying!

Laminating these arms takes ages. Carving is too difficult by hand across grain. Lot of blood! Dremel is finally paying it's way. Hands are working out ok.

Did I mention anatomy was hard?


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Actually looking at you holding that hand its a smaller scale than I imagined, what will the finished dimensions be?

It'll be about 800mm high including a plinth type base. Really small towels!
Such is my naivety I figured smaller would be easier, but the face wasn't by any stretch and neither the hands.