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Thank you Marty. I will go get one. I appreciate your advice.
Also, the lazy susan is sheer genius Sir!
Fred
Jim, I’m just a couple months into this. But today I made a lazy susan from some things I had laying around and it is a really nice addition to my toolset. I just checked Amazon and they have several lazy susans, some of them under $10.
I understood the same as Serge – northern basswood is best. I understand from other posts on this community that “northern” is what Mary sells. FYI, I compared his price against what I got from Woodcraft (I have a bandsaw and cut my own blanks) and I think Mary is priced fairly. I’m also intrigued by his EZCarve and may order some.
Fred
Hi Wayne. I’m new too. So far, I’m half way through the fundamentals class and find it very good.
Look forward to sharing experiences with you!
Fred
That’s really good to hear because, like others, I get chatter when carving letters. So Im looking forward to this course!
Fred
I’m new at chip carving but I’m a pretty decent woodworker. So I’m fluent in using hand tools. I do not sand the carving boards. I plane them by hand, using a #4 finishing plane set to a cutting depth of about 0.002″. The resulting surface is very smooth. Then I transfer the pattern or draw my own.
After the carving is done, I use the same #4 to remove the pattern marks. Depending on what I’ve carved (eg, a swirl rosette), I have to be careful not to flatten the sharp edges of my carving. But this method seems to work well for me.
Is there a down side to the way Im doing this?
Fred
