Rod's Green Man, Part 13
Created | Updated Jan 19, 2014
One Man's Woodcraft: Carving.
The Green Man: Part 13
Roughing-out the two upper main leaves and the peripheral underlying leaves took some serious thought and heavy duty attention. It seems, though, that cutting the leaves and the way they're curving and curling seems, so far, to be taking care of the way the face should slope out and down, as I hoped so that's encouraging.
What to do about His eyes, though, is a recurring worry. I've made a jig out of MDF that will allow me to mount the router so that it will drill down at (fairly) precisely one eye position then slide it over for the other eye. I have two cutters that may suit, subject to further thought, but the larger one will need to have the ball bearing removed (it's made to give an exactly flush cut while rolling along a workpiece, for trimming). I'm more or less convinced that His pupils will be significantly deeper to make them appear dark – and they will have to be drilled first because of way the cutter's made (normally, one would drill the bigger hole first).
Harking back to a previous episode, we looked at tools and it occurred to me that I'd omitted one – a piece of towelling or other suitably absorbent material – that dribble of concentration soaker-upperer.
