I use a very bright light to examine the edges for damage.
I use 3M fine automotive wet & dry finishing sandpapers on a hard flat surface.
I begin with 800 grit, then 1,000, then 1500 grit paper. Maybe 600 start if there is serious damage to the edge.
I use Chromium Oxide and Aluminum Oxide honing compound on hard, thick paper for finishing.
CrOx is 0.5 micrometer, AlOx is 0.25 micrometer nominal particle sizes. That's good for western red cedar.
That beast is a delight to look at, again and again. I hope you get commissions to carve others. Red color would look good.
Hi I like the pose with the jetty piling.
You should see what the Translator did to the name of your wood!
Anyway in English = Butternut (as you know) and Latin is Juglans cinerea.
I look forward to see that finished.
Very good. Thank you very much. I hope to try that later today.
I have a translator program built into my computer.
It can analyze text and know the language for a one-click translation.
It turned itself on when I registered here.
Never needed to use it before and it works very well.
Hi Robert;
I'm new here too. I live 2 hrs west of Jasper in the Rockies at 53N in McBride BC,
Lots of folders of pictures, I need to learn how to post them.
Hello. Me again. I've learned that the translator works on the message text but not on some of the other frame control words.
This forum is better. I have a paper sheet to learn some German terms! I will try to post pictures. Hard for me to do. Easy for others.
Hello Jakob. Thank you.
You will find me in several other carving forums as "Robson Valley." That is the mountain district where I live.
It is snowing then melting almost every day in the valley now. There is still 300cm in the alpine, we had 100cm in the village.
I grow Vitis riparia grapes for juice and jelly. Not a good wine grape. I trade the grapes for carrots, onions & potatoes for winter.
I buy the steel blades and make my own handles. Many of the crooked knives were used by farriers to trim horse hooves.
I buy the adze blades from Kestrel Tool i the USA and make all the wooden handles for those.
I carve what I see in the wood. It comes to me what there is in there. Maybe a bowl, maybe a Raven bird or other animal.
Hello
I like to carve western red cedar (Thuja plicata) and yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), both local woods. Some birch (Betula papyrifera).
I like to use the crooked knives and adzes like those here in the Pacific Northwest native carving community. I build most of my tools.
I am retired. I live in a little mountain village in the west side of the Rocky Mountains. I grow grapes in the summers.
