Thread: WIP. Inland rosewood (acacia)

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Happy with this little addition to the bench grinder too.


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Hoo, I can feel the hardness looking at the pictures !
Looking forward to seeing it finished, it seems to be a lovely wood.

Loving the home stretch. What I love about this wood is it is so difficult to break anything due to miscues of the chisel etcetera. Almost bomb proof.


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This wood is polishing up like gemstone. Down to 1200 grit, will go further easier. Very slow at finishing this piece and loving every second of it.
We had gem feat at lismore last weekend. Was thinking this piece needed a stone somewhere. I browsed for hours and as soon as I saw the red cats eye sphere knew I was there. The piece is based on a lunar eclipse and the stone was IT! It was a great birthday prezzies from the universe. Now just need to work out how to make it hover above her head


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She's come a long way. Could be stone but for the color.
Technical: what tools are you using for the polishing/fine grits part now?

Interesting looking work on what must be the most challenging of subject matters , fascinating composition too - can't wait to see the finished overall effect. Looks like that choice of timber is gong to add it's own extra dimension as well

..Nice one movay ..love the serene facial expression. I really liked the chisel finish and would have been tempted to leave it (sanding..Bleh!) but the fine finish worked well.
.For what it's worth, I reckon if you have to put a stone somewhere, make it subtle, if made a feature of , it can sometimes (visually) suck the life out of a piece, and this piece has much life in her.

Robson, also picked up a few supplies at gemfest lapidary tool stalls, incl: https://www.supergrit.com/products/sunmightgrnflm
I just cut these discs into max 40ml squares or octagons and punch holes in them for the mandrel for my rotary tools at lowest speed I can use. Picked up a cheap set of small files as well for hard-to-gets. I got some paper sheets if the same grit that is more flexible and can push into hollows and corners but doesn't last as long on mandrels so will probably end up glueing around nails. Yeh, and some very fine carving burrs with triple spiral down the shaft that clean up wood nicely (ordinary drill bit has only one spiral). Plus, found this devil for a cool $30aud.


Btw am roasting regularly now on a 12 kg roaster so if you want any factory bargains pm me. See recent cupping score from a world renown cupper at this link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/259777040725839/




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Agree underfoot on both scores. I am going to source more of this and do some quicker chisel finish with it. I know what it can do now. First carving for a while and its working well so have to go with it as far as possible. The stone will go on a base I made below the carving, I think. It may even be placed in its own draw.

Thanks Mick... Impatient to see it done myself so as to move on.


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Thanks Mick... Impatient to see it done myself so as to move on

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No ! Don't be impatient at this point ! We all get this, I'm sure, after spending longer than you had estimated it would take , but this is the very point where time taken on finish & on subtlety will pay off big time.
I should know, I'm approaching 250 hours into a 5" high figure carving myself & I'm dying to move on ! but now is the very time that that extra patience will make all the difference - Patience is the name of this carving game I reckon, why not do the best you are able to do at this point in time. Right NOW is in fact the critical time.