Creative Woodworks & crafts 1997-12, страница 41
PRECISION SAW, FILE, AMD SAND! Bonus Pattern - Carving a Seahorse by E.J. Tangerman With a 1" x 7-1/2" x 13-1/2" piece of cherry, your carving tools, and the "dean of wood carvers" to show you the way, you can call this seahorse your own in just a short while! When I first started this seahorse many years ago, I had a pattern of sorts, a piece of wood, and some spare time. I happened to be teaching a carving class at the time and the progress of this project served as a good demonstration for my students. The technique used is "trench carving." In trench carving, the background is not cut away except for immediately around the subject figures. This technique, invented by the ancient Egyptians, gives maximum protection to the carving by surrounding it with flat surfaces and makes possible at least an indication of a great deal of detail. The technique of trench carving, combined with a piece of stock which does not require a frame, allows at least the suggestion that the sea is limitless—not hemmed in by a manmade box. On the pattern, found in Full Size Pattern Section No. 1, the head of a baby seahorse projects from the mid-section of the adult—thus indicating that the parent is a male. Seahorses do not follow the normal pattern of nature—the female lays her eggs in the male's pouch and he carries them until they hatch. Carving the seahorse is a fairly straightforward process, except that the flutes are across the grain and can therefore cause trouble, especially at the tips of each ridge. Also, the feathery projections around the head and neck must be carved very carefully, particularly the ones at the back of the neck, which are again cross-grain. Finally, the starfish should be textured to keep it from appearing too flat in comparison with the seahorse. I used a dull scriber as a punch to add a pattern to it. Cordless KD-1 Craft Tool for Fine Detail Work on Wood and Plastic!
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