Thread: Deco II Section 3

The carving is coming along exceptionally well, great stuff.

Originally Posted by hughie

The carving is coming along exceptionally well, great stuff.

Thank you, after tonight I have 4 days off to work on this. I'll post up dates as I go around the rim.
Bruce

Deco II Section 4
Almost half way with the rim carving. I rough out the 4th layout and have the others in various stages so you can see the progression of the work. I have also been asked about the tools I use, the ones in the photos are the most used hand tools. The knife is used for 90% of the cutting and large details. The other gouges and a Dremel do the very fine detail work.

damn nice, keep those updates coming

Originally Posted by brainstrust

damn nice, keep those updates coming

Cool here's more

Okay everyone I stuck with it all day and finished the 4th section. last look at this side I cover this type of carving with several layers of tape starting with frog tape (painters tape) there is less glue. This does two things helps protect from oils from my hands and after cutting away as much as I have the rim has become fragile. This makes carving the second half a challenge. I show the base in the photos so you will see the changes I'll be making there.

Deco II second Half
The day was spent roughing out the outer portion of the rim, cutting to the pencil lines only. This was done to keep the rim solid while I hand carve the outer sections. After cutting as much detail as I can into the outer portion I will slowly remove the inner sections so not to make the piece snap. There are only small points where the rim contacts the main bowl and outer ring.

Deco II
Almost there I've just two sections to detail carve on the rim. I have added some new details to the base section.