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Chip Carving...
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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Re: Chip Carving...
It is not as easy as it sounds, The first sentence is the most important, BASSWOOD,
If you try on a piece of maple or oak you will get discouraged really fast. To start out, you want a softer,dense wood. Some of the mahogany's and cedar work good too. I took a 2 1/2 hour class once and got a far king "F".
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If you try on a piece of maple or oak you will get discouraged really fast. To start out, you want a softer,dense wood. Some of the mahogany's and cedar work good too. I took a 2 1/2 hour class once and got a far king "F".
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Re: Chip Carving...
Basswood is always the recommended carving wood. Like you say, I'm also sure red cedar should work too.I have a bunch of clear white pine which is soft and straight grained which I think should carve easily because it's soft, too soft to make furniture out of. I've made corner shelves out of it before and they look nice with the tight strain grain boards I have. I've seen white oak that was chip carved but I'd have to use a mallet on the carving tools to be able to carve something as hard as that.