Thanks for all the techniques and the dynamic design exercises. 🙂 It's a real good thing that the Fleur De Lis isn't a rigid, only-this-way, design.
About that double-sided tape... I've seen double sided tape for stationary uses and a different kind for textile uses. I've also heard of a double sided tape for woodworking purposes, but have yet to find it in the stores I visit. Please tell us more about it.
The double sided tape I recently discovered (via Charles Neil) is a type of duct tape. It is called Shurtape and you can usually find it in the duct tape area of Lowes or Home Depot. It is very strong and can be loosened with mineral spirits when you are finished with the carving. It can get kind of gummy and messy once the mineral spirits is absorbed into the duct tape, but it comes off easy enough with more mineral spirits. I have not found any other double-sided tape to hold as strong as this. I am sure there are others out there, and if anyone has suggestions that would be greatly appreciated!
Perfect! Thanks.
.... and it turns out that HD doesn't carry it in stores in my area (Northeast), nor online. Lowes next...
I've also learned that "Shurtape" is a brand name, not one specific type of tape. Within the brand there look like elebenty-seven types of tape, more than a few double-coated varieties. The double-coated variants have backings of paper (4 types), film (3 types), or cloth (2 types). Do you know which type you use? The Shurtape product number, i.e. DF 545, DP 380, etc., will nail it precisely.
Mary
Some years ago I aquired a box of chisels at a estate sale. My primary interest was the Japanese woodworking chisels but I had to buy the whole box which contained 40 carving chisels most which still had red wax on the cutting edge. They were german made with a picture of a screw on them and were not polished. I believe they are Dastra (sp?). I have had them for numerous years and only used a few of them for texturing. Now the question is now that I have found a carving teacher that I can afford I plan to try your program - However the numbers for the sweeps on these tools do not correspond to your descriptions. The number close to a 3 is like 17 and the fishtails with similar sweeps have different number. I tried matching the sweeps to you chart and nothing is quite the same. Is there some sort of math conversion? -
By the way I paid $60.00 for the box which included four woodworking chisels and a few chip carving knives.
$60 for the box of 40 Dastra carving chisels? Since they now run about $40 to $60 each, I'd say you got the deal of a lifetime. I am jealous! I am not sure how Dastra used to number their tools, but sometimes the older tools have the first number refer to the actual tool shape (such as straight, fishtail, spoon bent, backbent, etc), so the "1" in the "17" may refer to that, and the second number would most likely refer to the curvature - probably NOT the width. Then you might find that another number (let's say "2" for example) might refer to fishtails (so it would be labelled #27 for a #7 fishtail). Not sure why something that looks like a #3 has a number 7 on it, however. It looks like you're going to just have to play around with them and match the curvatures to the chart.
Mary
Some years ago I aquired a box of chisels at a estate sale. My primary interest was the Japanese woodworking chisels but I had to buy the whole box which contained 40 carving chisels most which still had red wax on the cutting edge. They were german made with a picture of a screw on them and were not polished. I believe they are Dastra (sp?). I have had them for numerous years and only used a few of them for texturing. Now the question is now that I have found a carving teacher that I can afford I plan to try your program - However the numbers for the sweeps on these tools do not correspond to your descriptions. The number close to a 3 is like 17 and the fishtails with similar sweeps have different number. I tried matching the sweeps to you chart and nothing is quite the same. Is there some sort of math conversion? -
By the way I paid $60.00 for the box which included four woodworking chisels and a few chip carving knives.
$60 for the box of 40 Dastra carving chisels? Since they now run about $40 to $60 each, I'd say you got the deal of a lifetime. I am jealous! I am not sure how Dastra used to number their tools, but sometimes the older tools have the first number refer to the actual tool shape (such as straight, fishtail, spoon bent, backbent, etc), so the "1" in the "17" may refer to that, and the second number would most likely refer to the curvature - probably NOT the width. Then you might find that another number (let's say "2" for example) might refer to fishtails (so it would be labelled #27 for a #7 fishtail). Not sure why something that looks like a #3 has a number 7 on it, however. It looks like you're going to just have to play around with them and match the curvatures to the chart.
It took me 20 minutes to download 1.435 GB in three files called Cardinal-ep1-hd.mp4 (525MB), Cardinal-ep2-hd.mp4 (555MB) and Cardinal-ep3-hd.mp4 (355MB). I used the right click, save target as... and save method to download each file to my computer. Plays well on RealPlayer Cloud.
Michael's difficulty was his service comes through a satellite in a remote part of the world. The service was too slow for the HD versions of the videos. He dropped back to the SD versions and all is working.
From Bob Easton on Carving a Fleur-De-Lis Appliqué - Episode 1
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From Gary Renfroe on All About Gouges
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From Gary Renfroe on All About Gouges - Beginner Lesson #3
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From Neill Graham on Carving a Cardinal "In the Round" - Episode 1
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