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My first attempt at this kind of carving. Mirror frame in basswood (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by NataliePortland@lemmy.ca to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca
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[–] WalrusByte@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Looks great!

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Beautiful and talented, great job Ms Portland

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That looks amazing!

[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Agreed! Strong Work! Keep it up!

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Basswood? More like bas relief wood

Sorry

[–] probablynaked@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Made me chuckle

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks :-) Happy New Year soon

[–] randomTingler@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I have no knowledge on wood working.. but I can say it's amazing for the first try.

I write code. When I look at the code/logics that I have written years ago, I would amaze by myself that how did I really do it. Hope you would have similar feeling in few years

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Looks like a wooden r2d2 in the mirror.

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is really nice. And from a woodworking casual permit me to say: not just “ah that’s nice” sentimentally, but an abomination or kitsch car boot find in 50 years… but professional looking proper nice. Great job.

[–] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not a woodworker, but I love this community. This one brought back great memories of sitting and watching my grandfather carve similar pieces. Not mirrors, but he would make clocks or just wall pieces. I have several of his very early ones and then one of his last before he passed. Seeing the progression always makes me smile.

Thanks for sharing and reminding me of some good life moments.

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much! Can you share a picture? I would love the inspiration

[–] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shitty pic, sorry. I'm in the middle of a move and pulled it out of a box. This one ended up displayed at Disneyland and won a people's choice award by park visitors. He was pretty proud of that.

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

Oh it’s incredible! Wow what an artist Thanks so much for digging that out to share. Where are you moving to? What’s going on?

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is great!

I’ve been trying to move up from whittling and into more carving tools, what kind of tools did you use to make this?

[–] NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

I used mostly a straight 3/4” chisel, a v- gouge with a deep v, and a gouge

UP Wood Art is where i learned

[–] probablynaked@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is just incredible - you should be so proud!

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

how did you take this photo? r u a vampire?