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Hi folks - tried my hand at wood carving today and have a question.
Drew a small design on a nice piece of poplar and set about carving it. It didn't work out so well. Areas that I wanted rai...
... of my 'day-job', furniture making, that supports my art work and studio, is large amounts of wood chips and saw dust. These 'chips' are actually quite small flakes that are the by...
...gs made of our faces! I recently asked my husband to make a fancy board and attach the castings to the wood. The problem is the glue he bought "No More Nails" adhered to the wood but not t...
...rniture restoration is to inject small amounts of natural turpentine into the holes and cavities of the wood (with a fine needled syringe). I've had a lot of success with this, getting rid of bor...
...mold of a portion of a piece of furniture, and did not want any substance involved to impair either the wood's finish, or the ability to refinish it later (ie. no silicones), what products could ...
Varnish is meant only to protect the wood from the elements, to preserve a certain amount of moisture within the wood, and to improve its appearance. The only treatment that will actually increase the...
Please pardon my intrusion, but I thought you would like to know….
Do you like fine quality wood for sculptures? Try IRONWOOD. It is the heaviest, strongest wood known. Completely termite resist...
To be fair to the poster who said that wood is a crop... he is partially right. In many (most?) developed countries, wood is treated as a crop. Forestry management is a goal - if not a practice. Unfor...
I am a full time artist in wood and bronze. I don't think there is any difference in it being wood, bronze, resin, or relief woodcarvings, even though most people don't consider woodcarvings...
I dont know if they still make them but when I was younger you could buy roughed out wood forms which required the finish carving.
These might give him an idea if he has the patience to keep going...
... ANYONE give me any info on where i can get these? The main usagebenefit of the tool was working in wet wood, and waste wood. The artist that made the disk used it to make furniture from solid logs, a...
how do I clean and polish epoxy resin finish. This is the interior wood parts for a truck.
You might consider wood as a material, if you have access to wood working equipment. Patterns need to be made for moldmaking(unless you already have them), and once you have set up for making one, it&...
Wood working tool work very well on sandstones.
regards Brett
Plaster of Paris:
I'm planning to use it on a wood panel to create a 'fresco.' Would it be possible to sculpt the surface to a very small depth, and what is the durability of plaste...
I am interested in information about any upcoming symposiums....anywhere...stone, wood or landart...... Please send if you know! Tx. J.K.
i'm looking for some books on gargoyles, demons, imps and that sort of thing to sculpt from wood. Does anyone know of good book titles?
I was wondering if any one out there could recomend a decent wood type for my sculpey models to mount on before baking? I've used sculpey many times but never mounted them (never had to before)....
...the source from someone else and modify it some. Take a look at my gallery http://www.prairietrail.com/wood/index.html You can save this page to disk and start modifying it to match your own...
I do wood carvings, mainly lizards and native american carvings. Now, I would like to carve human faces. Where do I start?
[Hmm. Maybe you should try baking some of this wood in the oven, using the same time/temp as the sculpy requires, just to see what happens with it.]
Then I will wrap
[Are you sure this is goin...
... work, have you tried it as a model for burn-out? I would like to use it as a 'sketchpad' for wood carvings, and as a finished model for subsequent molds. Perhaps, one density is not suitabl...
...y for sculpting?
Would it be possible to make some sort of 'holding frame' with layers of wood and rubber to insulate against the vibration?
Or is this only really a worry if one is ...
...hve the fillers but they didn't at home depot.
What I'm doing is making a aquarium out of wood, I am now fiberglassing it witha resin. but I need to add a color to it. It is amazing how ...
...'m taking a college course in Sculpture and I need to make a mold for a Tsungite block or Japanese wood block. The only thing is I don't know how...My teacher said that I would have to figur...
...d? I'm rather tempted to try forming on some suitable shapes I've sculpted in polymer clay or wood.
Helen 'Halla' Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA...
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