wood thickness

[BullRunBear]

Is there a recommended minimal thickness for doing shallow relief carving like the beginners examples on Irish's website? Is 1/4" enough? I'll be at a Woodcraft next week and thought I would pick up some appropriate pieces to experiment with. Thanks.

Jeff

[TreeWizard]

I'd use at least 5/8".

[Claude]

I don't know about minimal thickness for beginners, but probably the best relief carvers I''ve seen work in 0.1mm or less thickness [the carvers who create the coins at the US Mint...]

Claude

[BullRunBear]

Tree Wizard, Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

Claude, That may be just a WEE bit too delicate for a beginner. Maybe for the second project.

Jeff

[chipmunk]

hi, is there a reason u want thinner[like pages to a wooden book] carve in 2ft. long boards x1/2-3/4thk plane the back down u can make a planer bottom board for the planer table of 1x12s.2ins longer then the steel table a/ nail 1x3/4 at the endswill fall over the steel table to hold it down to the planer table and run it thought to paper thin verneers then u can cut to page size after maybe this will help...

[chipmunk]

Originally Posted by chipmunk

hi, is there a reason u want thinner[like pages to a wooden book] carve in 2ft. long boards x1/2-3/4thk plane the back down u can make a planer bottom board for the planer table of 1x12s.2ins longer then the steel table a/ nail 1x3/4 at the endswill fall over the steel table to hold it down to the planer table and run it thought to paper thin verneers then u can cut to page size after maybe this will help...

most planers will only go to min. thickness about 1/4 u haveto use that base board to make verneers to go thinner food for thought