Hi Jack,
I have a plaster casting of this carving. I don't have it on my store as an item for sale, but if you want it, I would be happy to sell it. That's even better than measurement! It would be $30 plus shipping of $8. If you want I can e-mail you more details.
If you get nothing else out of this project, aside from the techniques of using the tape and the beautiful end product, the concept of the "Eraser Cut" demonstrated in Chapter Two is worth many times the price of admission! 🙂
As Shannon mentioned, the video quality is excellent.
Since you began doing videos, you have evolved from single camera, single moderate light source, and one-size-fits-all encoding (actually low-def), to much brighter multi-point lighting, two camera views, and device sensitive encoding that offers most of us very sharp HD ... even with the fuzzies. 🙂
These are remarkable improvements, especially when we consider that ALL video work, from the actual carving, to filming, to editing, to production and publishing is done by only one person. The constant improvements are quite an accomplishment.
I buy "turners tape" from Woodcraft or Craft Supplies (woodturnerscatalog.com) and it is strong enough to hold things to a faceplate while turning or to plane thin stuff on a bench. It can be pricey though.
Thanks! I am going to have to experiment and see which gums up less when you remove the carving with mineral spirits (I am assuming that is how you remove the turners tape). One thing that the Shurtape can do is get really gummy. Sometimes it comes off very clean and nothing sticks to the carving and other times it turns to goo. It's not difficult to clean, but irritating (just more mineral spirits). I am assuming it depends on whether you flood it with mineral spirits or gently brush a light amount - enough to soak, but not gum up. More testing...
I have never needed spirits to remove it. I have a putty knife that I have ground really thin at the point that allows me to lever off a turning or carving. That might not work with really thin/fragile stuff. It sounds like my tape isn't nearly as strong as the Shurtape stuff.
BTW, great project and excellent quality on the video. I really like the running commentary as the design evolves in real time.
Here are some conclusions with some of the double sided tape I have tried. The ones that are very thin (like scotch tape) don't seem to hold strong enough when I pound away with a mallet, but probably would hold with something like this project just pushing the tool through the wood. I think the woodturners tape you use is very thin like this. The fact that it holds wood turnings proves it's strength. Also, the thinner the tape, the more smooth the wood needs to be - both the back side of the carving and the backer board - simply for good contact.
Double sided carpet tape is too spongy and thick. I've tried a variety of these and they stick well enough but seem to flex a little when carving - which is really irritating.
If you check out one of my recent blog posts I talk about the leaf decoration for a Highboy and how I used the double sided tape for this. It is very fragile with a lot of delicate pieces. If I were to pry this off the backer board in any way, pieces would start snapping off. This is where the mineral spirits gently lifts the carving. It's just getting the gummy stuff off the back where I break the piece! That's what glue is for...
I have been doing some very un-scientific experimenting with solvents for releasing the double sided tape. I was mistaken that the mineral spirits was the best to use. It releases the tape but really makes things gooey. I tried mineral spirits, lacquer thinner, naptha, acetone, and denatured alcohol - just some solvents I had around the shop and thought I'd try them all.
Conclusion - Denatured alcohol releases nicely with almost NO gummy sticky tape (and it's probably the least toxic to breathe or touch - not sure about this, but it seams that way)
Acetone and Lacquer thinner would be the next best with slight gummy feel, but releases OK
Mineral spirits and naptha almost cause the tape to dissolve and create a really gummy tape.
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