Back to Wood Carving
The clay hounds have been left behind now and I’ve moved on to their wood versions.
I didn’t take a photo of it, but what I did was hold the clay figures up to a piece of paper and outlined the side view shape onto the paper. This takes a bit of eye-balling as you want to make sure that the lines that you draw are accurate and as close to a 90 degree angle to the paper. With a little practice and some measurements from the clay to the paper just to check that everything is true, you end up with a side view that you can take to the bandsaw.
If you’re careful, you can do the same for the front view by holding the clay figure now up against the profile that you just sawed out on the bandsaw. This is a bit trickier as the saw pattern left on the figure is contoured and not a flat plane. Again, with a bit of practice it’s possible to get a nice pattern developed. Just remember that when you take this to the bandsaw you will not have the flat plane that you originally had to rest on the bandsaw table. What I did was to lightly glue onto the back a portion of the profile that I had cut off, so that I now would have a flat surface to cut against.
At that point, out came the Typhoon bits and the Foredom tool for some rough shaping followed by the chisels and knives. Here’s where I am at this point.
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