help :)

[opakitas]

Ok never have carved a figure. I am doing a shiba puppy. going only by a photo I started my carving no bandsaw to help carve out the figure all done by hand. Anyways since I am not sure what I am doing I started it but was thinking of it as a relief and that is not what I wanted. Managed to change it some but have learned anyways I have a part of the puppy that I shouldn't have taken off the wood. Is there anyway I can fix this? wood filler or something that I can put it back in there and carve.
Hope I can fix this.

thanks
Tammy

[Claude]

If you still have the piece that came off, you can glue it back on with yellow carpenters glue (Elmers). If you don't have the piece, you can flatten the area where you need more wood, and then glue on a new piece of wood to build up the area. Try to align the wood grain of the new piece with the grain of the old piece...it'll be easier to carve.

Claude

[opakitas]

well I don't think I can do that as its a very small figure. I need to build up where the paw is and the leg. Wood filler wouldn't work?

[scooter]

If gluing (glueing?) the piece back on, or if a new, replacement piece of wood doesn't work...

There is a wood epoxy putty out there, but I don't recall the brand name. It comes in a tube about the size of a roll of Necco wafers. Knead it, press it into place, and in about 10 minutes it will still be soft enough to carve, yet hard enough that it won't go out of shape when you put a knife to it. If you wait until it hardens completely, you can still carve it, but it will be harder on your knife edge, such that you'll need to hone it before going back to carving actual wood (or, you could keep a secondary [read: crappy] knife on the side, for the express purpose of putty-carving). It will still look like it's been carved, provided you'll be going over it with paint. It won't look natural, nor will it take stain.

Sold in woodcarving shops. I've also seen it at Ace.

S~

[Tom Park]

The product you are referring to could possibly be Quickwood.