howdy all,
just decided to try carving...have loved to work with wood all my life... after a somewhat un-satisfying experience with match-i-techure I decided maybe carving would be more to my liking. To shorten this up some...the wife got me a Santa carving book and basic tools(carving knife, detail knife and a Flexcut #3--7/8 palm gouge)for X-mas. The book recommends Bass wood blanks as a carving medium...have searched long and hard here in Portland, Oregon and all I get is funny looks. Closest thing I could find was laminated poplar at the big box stores. Any suggestions.Also-honing/stroping, all the stuff in the specialty stores seems way over priced.
thanks in advance for any help,
Charlie
'let the chips fly!'
just decided to try carving...have loved to work with wood all my life... after a somewhat un-satisfying experience with match-i-techure I decided maybe carving would be more to my liking. To shorten this up some...the wife got me a Santa carving book and basic tools(carving knife, detail knife and a Flexcut #3--7/8 palm gouge)for X-mas. The book recommends Bass wood blanks as a carving medium...have searched long and hard here in Portland, Oregon and all I get is funny looks. Closest thing I could find was laminated poplar at the big box stores. Any suggestions.Also-honing/stroping, all the stuff in the specialty stores seems way over priced.
thanks in advance for any help,
Charlie
'let the chips fly!'
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