Thread: Big face WIP

I roughed out with chainsaw and cutting disk, pulled apart the added bits, spaced and ebonised them. the piece is just about ready to start with chisels.

Looking good Undy.

Looks great ... does it have a home for when its finished?

Great work Underfoot,
What else can a person say.

Opps, just saw the last photo.
Undy, you are not going to chop her up into little pieces are you.

underfoot I have heard of the saying you have a big head but thats just takeing it a bit far

I like it mate nice work keep it up

Very nice work. Are you going to post a photo when its done? Also, how many hours have gone into it up to this point? Do you have buyer or is this something you're doing for the love of it?

Just can't find the words Undy, orstrom, famiciko, spanifurous...all the grand big Italian arm gestures words

So , size matters , after all...What's next? - something the size of those Buddas found in the jungle- (watch for taliban!) Jokes apart , I like that "digitalized" part of the face-the "little" bits , very original . Do you plan to hollow it from behind to avoid moving of the timber?

Very smooth work with a cutting disk.

Whose nose did you use for the mold?

thanks for the feedback folks,
next stage (as artesano asks) is to hollow out the back and have about a 50mm wall thickness through the piece, then chisels for the detail.

Originally Posted by Sir Stinkalot

... does it have a home for when its finished?

it's for an exhibition next month, so it may or may not find a home straight away,
(a sale on opening night would be good)

Originally Posted by Whittling

, how many hours have gone into it up to this point? Do you have buyer or is this something you're doing for the love of it?

I don't know about doing it for the love of it Whittling,..
it's more like a little seed of an idea takes hold which can quickly grow into an obssesive need to purge it out of my system (make it).
..then some frantic, sweaty, activity, all the time wondering if I'm doing the right thing, or whether I should have started doing this in the first place, ....
.....then there's a short moment of real pleasure when I realise it,s just about finished
......then remembering that I can't just up and walk away, because of all the sanding that needs doing..
then when it's all done, I go and have a beer and tell my mates (on this forum) all about it.
..... now that you mention it, it does sound a bit like ...........love

Ispose I wasn't making much sense in my last post, but I hope your got my drift, excuse...fridee working week frazzle When I first responded for some reason I didn't notice the top five pics so I asked where Kevin was and explained also, to what amounted to being unclear about the scale of your work which, more often than not, decieves me. Upon realising there were more pics, the answers to my questions became evident so I chopped my initial post down to what it ended up being.

I'm just wondering what glue you used to stick the two primary planes of wood together, if they are butt jointed and if splines are used for reinforcement? Hot melt glue looks handy, how much force can it handle, by the look of what you did it seems to stand up to a fair amount of weight. You use a heat gun to melt it right? Does it leave a stain?

Is the nose stuck on? If so you've done a great job with melding it into the face but I wonder about the join line, how do you overcome that?

What are the joining rods made of, are they glued in? Did you get any unwanted ebonising bleeding onto the face; it seems to be restricted to the inside edges if you know waht I mean.

Sorry if this is too much a flurry of questions, I wish I was Kevin and then I wouldn't feel compelled to ask, well done Undy keep it coming

What SW said!, Undie maybe you could just send Kevin out on training flights to the rest of us.
I have been threatening to get into more carving and art rather than furniture and have now been included an art show September 2010 (plenty of time to make pieces) so will have to make the effort to move accross. The basic theme of the show is The Crack That Let The Light In and my first thought was a smile so am looking close at those big lips, something like I had in mind. Will have to open the fridge and get another bottle of creative juice out.
As usual, exceptional work Undie.