Interesting Raised Carving Method

[echnidna]

Never seen this done before but its quite a logical method.

[Zarguld]

That looks absolutely awesome thanks for sharing that I want to carve something now just to try it.

[Frank&Earnest]

Thanks Bob. Bookmarked (with envy).

[underfoot]

Amazing work
huon pine is about the best aussie wood I've found for this process,

check out the 3D images on her home page

[echnidna]

I'd imagine that any of the woods that are highly hydroscopic would work well
so even radiata would do but something like redgum probably wouldnt work.

[tea lady]

Cool. Thanks Echnidna.

[Frank&Earnest]

Bob, the timber for that sculpture was boxwood - don't know about its hygroscopic properties, but would hardly compare it to pine. I would have guessed that it had more to do with resilience. Maybe we can try with olive?

[artme]

Wonderful stuff!! Thanks for the intro!

[joe greiner]

Very interesting exploitation of wood's resilience. For another example, see https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...t=44003&page=6

Joe

[Frank&Earnest]

Interesting, Joe. That confirms that the more spongy the wood the more you can squish it. Now we have evidence that with some hardwood it works at least well enough to raise the frog's bumps that fraction of a millimetre, maybe that's as far as it can go.

[underfoot]

. Maybe we can try with olive?

tried it on some of the olive,
seems to work ok,

[flynnsart]

Thats pretty clever. Thanks for the link. Will have to have a play.

Donna

[tea lady]

Hey, Under's left handed!!!

[echnidna]

well I assume the right hand swings the hammer

[flynnsart]

I certainly wouldnt trust my left hand in control of a hammer, not when its aiming anywhere near any other part of my body

The wood that the carver was using must be pretty soft, it looks like she does it without a hammer.

Donna