Beiträge von Brian Thair

I like to see the surface tool marks.

You could thin the ears more. But very good body shape.

I believed it was just one of many problems with software in this new computer.

Everything has been repaired!

The shape reminds me of the bowls carved by Tsimshian and Tlingit First Nations people who live along the Pacific coast of southern Alaska. I like that very much.

Look in the Showcase Forum for My Tools. I use the "crooked knives" with different sweeps, bends, every day.

I agree with your technique: both sides then across the middle. Very, very sharp tools.

Beautiful shape. I suggest that you do some relief carving on the tops of the handles.

Perhaps related to the food that you would serve in that bowl (fruits, etc).

I grow grapes. That's a very big leaf, good for dolmades. The grapes need to be bigger and all the same size.

Make them better round, also. Red or white, do you think?

I sharpen a lot of these tools with the bevels on the inside. "In-cannel" was the European term for the placement of the bevel.

10+ years ago, I abandoned the mallet and gouge tradition for the tools used here in the Pacific Northwest.

The crooked knives and elbow and D adzes from the First Nations carvers from the Pacific Northwest are all like this.

These will teach you the fine points of freehand sharpening, if you don't know them already.

You can see my tools and carvings in the Showcase, below.

Use a good translation app and we can talk to each other.

I can help you to make these tools "carving sharp."

This thread is a good place. Might serve to help other people also.

Hard wood holds fine detail and clean edges. Excellent choice, design and result.

First, you are not carving the North American species: Tilia americana.

What you bought is probably T. platyphyllos x T. europa, a common Linden hybrid.

Second, the best wood comes from northeastern United States and Eastern Canada.

Basswood from the southern USA is tough.

Third, you may have bought some wood cut from very large branches. That has a tougher anatomy = reaction wood.

In the case of deciduous angiosperm trees such as Linden, that anatomy is called tension wood.

Fourth, wood carving tools need to be exceptionally sharp, better than razors. The bevel angles are critical.

You can find some of my tools and carvings in the Showcase(?) section here.

Mostly western red cedar from the mountains and yellow cedar.

Every wood has its problems.

Scroll down in this site to the International "Hobby Carvers Forum."

There are three entries in the Showcase forum. They are some of my tools and some examples of my carvings.

Look on any big map of North America/Canada. West coast. British Columbia.

Find 53 degrees N latitude and 120 degrees west longitude is just about on my village.

I carve what I see in the wood. That is usually western red cedar (Thuja plicata).

Biggest carvings are in the 60cm - 160cm range. I put my tools and some carvings in the showcase section.

The only other woods I use are yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) and birch (Betula papyrifera)

I have piles of logs and beams inside and outside the house.

There are some good chainsaw carvers here, it is not a style that interests me at all.

I bought a CS carving but not mine.

I live just south (to the left) of that picture in the village of McBride, BC 53N x 120W.

I live alone. This is my house, 125m^2 on each of 2 floors. I can bring in 30cm logs for carving, if I need to do so.

I do my very best to keep all the carving work in one large room. I make all kinds of mess in there and nowhere else in the house.

The house keeper thinks it's funny to find chips and shavings upstairs. She knows what I have been doing.

I do try to brush myself off each night.

Welcome, Isabella. I have separate coverings for each knife and adze. I can put those in a box. The boxes are always too small.

As a rule, I never clean up = I maybe pile up the tools and sweep the floor to one side so my chair moves.

Welcome Gerd from 120W Long. x 53N Lat. I use Google Translate for this site.

I have not figured out how to set this writing into German.

I wonder which style of carving you like the best.

Make certain that you always say which country copyright you quote. They are different.

When you have secure copyright, then you can sell individual rights for users to do different things with your work.

The acrylic medium is a good alternative to diluting acrylic paints with water.

I like the choice of matt, satin and glossy appearance.

Instead of water, thin acrylics with "artist's acrylic medium". Just paint with no pigment. Matt, satin, gloss.

Does not make the paint look dull.

Just the other day, I was reading that WCI is going to offer digital magazine subscriptions. No postage/shipping at all.