power relief carving a door

Nancy_G · #11 07-13-2006, 01:32 PM

I'm watchin - I'm watching
I'm grateful

fishcarver2004 · #12 07-14-2006, 12:20 PM

now that its roughed out, I will begin to shape the body and the face, for this i will use my arbortec 2" steel cutter.
pic 3 is one of my work benches.
it is a old drafting table i got at a used office furniture store for 75.00! it goes up and down with a power foot peddle, and the table top will lay flat and tilt.
it will easily hold 85-100 pounds, i put some wheels on it so i can roll it around the shop.

fishcarver2004 · #13 07-14-2006, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Nancy_G

I'm watchin - I'm watching
I'm grateful

Thanks Nancy, happy that someone was watching, if you you want i can email you the rest of the pics.
Stacey

Dylan · #14 07-14-2006, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by fishcarver2004

Thanks Nancy, happy that someone was watching, if you you want i can email you the rest of the pics.
Stacey

Please keep posting for the rest of us, I'm watching to. Thanks for the info on the routers.

Dylan

squbrigg · #15 07-15-2006, 06:58 AM

Keep up the good work Stacey, many of us are watching and learning.

Bob

Mottles · #16 07-15-2006, 04:29 PM

Hi Stacey:

Thank you for doing your step by step work on the wolf door. It's going to be beautiful I only wish I could do one. I told my hubby that I'd like to carve a wooden door for our home and he said only if I do the up keep on the wood. So it's on my list of to do things. Well least he wasn't worried I couldn't do the job. LOL
I know you are very busy with your other projects and for you to take the time to do this tutorial says a lot about you.
So please continue showing us your steps to completsion of the wolf door. Also will it be OK to print out your tutorial for reference material?
Thanks so much ,
Kathy

fishcarver2004 · #17 07-15-2006, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Mottles

Hi Stacey:

Thank you for doing your step by step work on the wolf door. It's going to be beautiful I only wish I could do one. I told my hubby that I'd like to carve a wooden door for our home and he said only if I do the up keep on the wood. So it's on my list of to do things. Well least he wasn't worried I couldn't do the job. LOL
I know you are very busy with your other projects and for you to take the time to do this tutorial says a lot about you.
So please continue showing us your steps to completion of the wolf door. Also will it be OK to print out your tutorial for reference material?
Thanks so much ,
Kathy

Thanks Kathy, the door has been pretty
fun so far, just wished that i took more pics then i did. some times you just get going and forget to stop carving long enough to take a pic. you can print as many as you want! I found a drawing program on my computer so I'm adding
some lines where i make my cuts, so
i hope it give you a better idea of what I'm doing, then you can tell me what I'm doing

so i should start adding some more pics Monday morning.
Stacey

Nancy_G · #18 07-15-2006, 07:27 PM

Stacey - it's so kind of you to offer to mail me the photos but you have to post 'em here for everybody. People who know a lot more about carving - especially power
We ALL appreciate your work and instruction. THANK YOU

fishcarver2004 · #19 07-17-2006, 11:12 AM

pic#1 with the 2" cutter, i start cutting in the center on the back and just make small cuts as i round off the back and the
stomach areas I'm going on a slight angle toward the the tree on the right side of the carving so as to get the body to look like its behind the tree. then where the lines are around the face i will make little
scoop cuts too make the layers of fur, and just keep cutting until the face starts to stand out. on top of the head ,
i will bend the layers one at a time until i get to the ears and stop there the ears will be under cut later.. pic# 2 i will use my dremel with the cylinder cutter to blend in my cuts on the layers of fur and round them off more and more as i go.
on the nose, i used the flame cutter
i will start at the top of the line on the nose and angle the flame cutter on an Angle and start cutting toward the line on the nose below the eyes, and then i will shape around the sides of the nose
and the mouth, when it looks like it stands out then i will stop. (when i shape
a face i just eyeball it as there are no measurements to go by so i carve it till it looks good to me.)
around th eyes are kinda flat so i will cut them in flatter and deeper by where the nose ends,the eyeballs are cut in with my powercrafter with a very very small ball
cutter( every now and then i will stand back for a few mins. and just look at the carving so i can see an over view of what i'm doing, taking small amonts of wood off at a time is easer then putting it back on)

fishcarver2004 · #20 07-17-2006, 01:46 PM

pic#1 this is what the face looked like after getting it sanded down. After loking at it for a little whale i didn't like it, so after looking up somre pics. on the net i
i changed it. i made the the nose wider by the eyes, the eye lid's more of a curve, the bottom of the mouth on the left side needed to be rounded a little more. so i'm happy with the face now
so i leave it for now and move on to the trees
Stacey