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Norbert Riedi

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  • in reply to: Letters & Pattern Swiss Pine Wood #100012064
    Norbert Riedi
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    Thank you very much, Marty! I really appreciate your compliments.

    Sorry, I’m a little late with my response.

    Your starter knife “K… something” was a “Klötzli #2”? The forger/cutler Ernst-Ulrich Klötzli (1911–1975) designed this shape together with the master chip carver Christian Rubi (1899–1990). It is still in production and available since the 1950s until today. I just purchased some the other day.

    Do you mind if I post a picture? (I don’t want to compete with your fabulous knives on your own website.)

     

    in reply to: Double tea light holder, by Josephine Stueven #100008953
    Norbert Riedi
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    This is very inspiring, thank you! Looks very nice and very skilled.

    in reply to: Letters & Pattern Swiss Pine Wood #100008920
    Norbert Riedi
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    in reply to: Letters & Pattern Swiss Pine Wood #100008919
    Norbert Riedi
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    I brought myself and the knife somehow at the edge of my current chip carving skills with this letters size in Swiss Pine Wood. The lowercases are ca. 11,5 cm in height. The cuts are quite deep. The board is ca. 95 cm long and will be placed at the outside of a cottage—it reads the cottage’s name. That’s my very first commissioned work in chip carving! 😉

    By the way … according to Wikipedia the Swiss Pine Wood or Arve, Zirbe (Latin “Pinus Cembra”) only grows in the Alps up to the timberline and on some spots in the Carpathian Mountains. It’s scent is really very pleasant and it’s pure joy to carve this wood. Okay, the hard spots are very hard. Brittle even.

    Hope you enjoy.

    Take care everybody.

     

    in reply to: Improvement can happen #100008685
    Norbert Riedi
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    I like this squirl pattern and your carving. And yes, improvement can happen. But it’s not for free. Never. Nowhere. Everything is hard work. And a good master around. Which Marty sure is. His tipps are worthy! And to me key is the depth and the angles of tip of the blade. In some patterns I draw fine lines to help me see where I have to be with the tipp approximately.

    in reply to: Chip Carving on wooden knife handles #100008684
    Norbert Riedi
    Participant

    Thanks for the compliments, @Andrei Gotia.

    in reply to: Letters #100008682
    Norbert Riedi
    Participant

    Thank you very much @Andrei Gotia! I appreciate. And I sure would like to send him the whole set rather than just a picture ;-).

    in reply to: Letters #100008491
    Norbert Riedi
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    Remember your last tip on round forms over there at one of my Instagram-postings, Marty? It was really pivotal for me! From this one I could easely take on on some of the other “problems” and solve some sources of error. Because it teached me to carve the weak cuts, the somehow easy “grain-followers” always first. No matter of its size or form. (It’s complicated for me to explain it correctly; my english is not good in enough.) The blade somehow likes to follow the way of the least resistance …

    in reply to: Chip Carving on wooden knife handles #100008490
    Norbert Riedi
    Participant

    Thank you for all your very motivating comments!

    @ Michael Disher : Yes, the Opinels are quite sharp from the getgo. And after a very deep cut in the finger pad carving my very first knife-handle, i started to wrap cardboard and some Duck Tape around the blade before chip-carving and after sketching out the pattern.

     

     

    in reply to: Chip Carving on wooden knife handles #100008483
    Norbert Riedi
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    Top to bottom:
    2 x Beechwood, Walnut, Beechwood, 2 x Walnut

    in reply to: Chip Carving on wooden knife handles #100008481
    Norbert Riedi
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    Top to bottom: 4 x Oak, 3 x Olive.

    in reply to: Letters #100008479
    Norbert Riedi
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    in reply to: Recycling Training Boards #100008456
    Norbert Riedi
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    Thanks Marty, thanks Shereecox! Here’s another set …

    in reply to: Letters & Pattern Swiss Pine Wood #100008455
    Norbert Riedi
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    Thank you, Shereecox!

     

    in reply to: Letters & Pattern Swiss Pine Wood #100008454
    Norbert Riedi
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    Your welcome, Marty!

    Yes, there are really many hard spots in the Swiss Pine Wood, also known as Arolla Pine, or Latin “Pinus Cembra”. It’s a special type of alpine pine with a very typical smell/scent too.

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