Along with the rest of my new begennigns. I cannot find any wood to carve in my local area. I however do live colse to Denver. For a bust or any sculpture from wood, you need to start with a pretty decent chunk of wood. I am contemplating using walnut. I like the nice dark look, and I have heard that would be a decent choice. If I mill down some stock and face plane it, then glue them together to get my thickness. Will I when carving run into probelms with the glued pices, I would imagine so.
Any book suggestions. one I read in “Carving classic female figures in wood.” Ian Norbury. Great for the basic tooling, but nothing on obtaining materials. Thanks.
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Check Out Chris Pye's site and books. He does in carving in the round, if I rember he goes into glue up in one of his books http://www.chrispye-woodcarving.com/. I just can't rember which one. Also try posting this in the new carving area.
Dale
Edited 11/17/2005 8:10 am by Timberwerks
I cannot carve worth a 'HOOT' but I saw a walnut Carousel horse once.. Not painted.. Very old so probably just hide glue and I could see the glue seams... IF I looked REALLY hard and I knew what I was looking for..
Still.. pretty hefty blocks of wood in there...
Why not try out some scrap (whatever).. Glue it up in different directions and carve a 'test'... Should tell you in a few strokes...
EDIT: Carving a BUST.. If it were me I'd start with a 33B and just grin at the results!
Edited 11/18/2005 5:38 am by WillGeorge
When Gluing up your blank take the care to arrange your lumber so the grain runs the same way. Otherwise you will have a tough time with tear out. Other than that I think you will be just fine.
Derek
33B or 40D??
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