Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-06, страница 36

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(his shows a stop cut using a gouge with a sweep that matches the pcttern. The purpose of this cut is to cut the wood fibers free of the edge you went to ccrve lower It can also be used for an undercut as well. That way there is no overcut or chip-out to worry cbout cn the flrished surface.

This is a tapered silicone carbide burr, and it is being used to remove mcterial and to sculpt positive and regative areas.

In this photo, I am going back over the left-side detail. The area in the pattern left a visual void, end Alice (my wife) said ttiat it needed "something." I roughed in a tree tiunk with the knife-edge bur. as shown in a previous photo, but she wasn't thrilled with it end frankly, neither was I. That is the problem with not being an artist or a carver; I don't have enough vision to be reclly effective, just enough to have fun! I lowered the tree trunk and lapered it so that the top would disappear under the foreground trunk. I used a veining gouge to outline it.

The knife-edge burr is also used to undercut and to make tcpered separations.

The burrs that I have used so far produce c soft texlure. but I wanted the overhead leaves to have smooth, reflec

tive surfaces like those of real leaves. Plus, there is enough '

slrenglh to ell of Ihe elemenls to cllcw the use of properly The skew is a handy tool, and il is used here to create a honed chisels ond gouges. very sharp corner.

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