A Little Help

North Wind · #1 02-15-2008, 05:04 PM

This is my next project and I would like to know if anyone has a way to clean out the area at the neck and hair line without power? I can never get it as clean as I like it. I am sure the way to do it is to keep going down in size with V tools and gouges but just wanted to know if anyone has a better way.Thanks Vince

tucker1931 · #2 02-15-2008, 05:31 PM

Hi Vince, lookin good there buddy. I'm not a very experienced carver as you know but, I would suggest a set of Rifflers (I think Smoky Mountain has them) thay are inexpensive and come in a set of 12 or so and they're all different shapes. Hope this helps.
Cliff

North Wind · #3 02-15-2008, 11:03 PM

Well here is where I am at right now. It takes a while to get here but I guess thats just the way it is till I find or make the tool or tools I need to do what I am after. Vince Thanks for lOOking

tucker1931 · #4 02-15-2008, 11:48 PM

Well I don't know how ya did it but it looks like the people from Gillette must have dropped by with some new spiffy razor. Whatever ya did it sure looks good now.
Cliff

Irishman · #5 02-16-2008, 08:16 AM

I have two bent gouges that I use in spots like that. What ever you used, you took care of your problem as I can see his adam's apple sticking out and the musculature showing on other side.
He's got a good strong chin which phases into his neck...not an easy task. What wood are you carving? I like the grain of the wood.
Patrick

doris · #6 02-16-2008, 10:37 AM

no special tools needed...mostly you can do with a number 2 in approriate width (or similar shalow gouge), cutting from two sides, and if the meeting should be not sharp, you can use a u-gouge going over it, and nicely blend the lines in...

North Wind · #7 02-16-2008, 02:14 PM

Thanks for the info. I do not have any thing more shallow than a #3, guess I will just have to get more tools. Now here are the pics before BLO. Vince

North Wind · #8 02-16-2008, 02:30 PM

These are the pics after oil. Patrick the wood is a piece of cottonwood about 5" by 12". It is very dry and very very soft. If tools are not like razer blades it will crush and tear. I use it to practice on until I get good enough to not trash something better. There is a lot of it here so thats what I use for now. The other choice is ash, just the opposite. Very hard. Thanks again for looking and your comments. Vince

Dan Wegiel · #9 02-16-2008, 04:24 PM

Great job! Like the others said, whatever you used worked very well. Just keep chipping and eventually, somehow, it seems to turn out. Looks very good.

Dan

doris · #10 02-16-2008, 04:29 PM

# 2 and # 3 might be same, depending on the numbering system your gouges use... i guess #3 is fine anyway, the point is, it should be very shallow, only not strictly flat...if it is a little curved, you just need make a few more cuts... th carving turned out nice, whatever your problem had been... really like it :-)