My Chip Carving 112
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In this lesson I would like to show you how to carve this pattern into your vast wood. Okay, it is a very simple pattern with only a few back to back chips, few larger chips and it moves along quite quickly. Okay this pattern as you can see has been done on all four sides of this toothpick holder. And, I am going to show you how to that right now. I already carved out one of this on my practice board here, and I started by drawing the lines across my board, the straight lines here and straight lines up and down to the dimensions that I have on the outside of my pattern. And I took my pattern and I put it on to my board and I traced around it, for times across the board. There is nothing fancy about this pattern, just made from a piece of tag board, cut out with an exact to a knife, to the size that I want. So, after I have laid out the pattern on my board, a couple of tips to remember. Do your larger chips first and always carve a way from your previous chips. And, as we do this next one here I will show you couple of things also on how I decide which cut to make first.
Start with, on this piece I am going to carve this out now. The grain of our wood runs in this direction and I want to carve our way from my previous chips. So, my first cuts will be right on this line away from my previous chips. There is a deep part of the chips I got little more depth and draw my knife out as I come down to the center. And, I could just continue down shallow and gets deeper right at the end.
Alright next, I am going to work on these chips here. There is my depth and my cut and draw your knife out to the center. I will turn my board again and take this chip out right from here. There is a depth on the chip again, and I am going to come all the way up to the center. Okay, if there is any bit left out in the center of your chip, way down deep just go in with the same position with your knife and take it out. Okay, so there is the first chip, I am going to come up and do this one now. Start right on the center very shallow, there is a deep part of the chip and draw the knife out right to there. Everything on this design is done in the first position with your knife. Review that lesson if you need too, there is a deep part right to there and my chip comes right out
Okay, the next one that I will work on, I am going to carve this—take these two each chips out, they are the bigger chips. Now, notice the grain direction on the wood for these, okay that is running on this direction again. Okay, I am going to take this inside curve cut first on both of these chips. I will explain to you why as I do it, so here is going to be my first cut. And there is my depth, turn the board and I take out the other side of chip. There is the deep part and drive out to make your curve and finally this side of my chip. Okay now, if it does not come out on your first try, use as you were it will be holding up is on a cross grain cut. Okay, so I go back in and it pops it right out. The reason I take this cut first, it is because with the grain direction, if I left it to the last cut, when I went deep here and came around the corner, it is going to start to lift out on me with the grain. I might get a bit of a rugged edge on the inside of my chip. So, instead of that I will take that cut first, to avoid lifting ahead of my cut. You will learn this as you keep doing more and more chip carving. There is my second cut, and finally the third. Okay, so those four chips have been removed. I start working on the opposite side now, I am going to take my inside curve cuts first.
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Okay, and now these two, larger chips on the outside. Okay, I am going to start on this long with the grain cut here and that same reason I just mention before, I do not want to be my last cut with the grain, because that tends to lift out ahead of my cut. Okay, if does not come out remember what I mentioned, it is probably your across the grain cut. Just go back in and just hang up right in there across the grain. All that remains are these back here. I am going to do the larger, longer ones first. These are not too big, so you do not have to go very deep. Again, I took with grind cut right up the middle first. Little depth in the middle is all you need. Now, the other side carved away from your previous chip and finally, these small chips across here. Do not go too deep because there are little tiny chips. A little bit left in there, always clean up after you made your chips if there is any a little pieces remaining down on the bottom.
And that is all there is to it, to carve this pattern, I would repeat this across my remaining chip and pretty soon before you know it carved a wonderful little toothpick holder just like this.
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