Rod's Green Man, Part 14
Created | Updated Jan 26, 2014
One Man's Woodcraft: Carving.
The Green Man: Part 14
This time we've roughed-out all the foliage – with the emphasis on rough.
Having previously said that the foliage may reduce the need to slope the face out-and-down, I now find that that is true – but only partially.
His eye sockets did seem rather too deep for comfort so I've done a bit of sloping from His brows. Mostly on the right and find that he has a rather better look about him. I'll try a bit of sloping lower down and on the chin. There's plenty of depth of wood left to allow for foliage flare so I'm not too concerned about that aspect.
Choosing the best tool for the job in hand, though, is rather too easy, I find, having so few of 'em... I am driven to the conclusion that some of my tools have the wrong shaped blades for this task. I need another two or three flattish but narrower, a couple with bent ends (narrower, one less curved & one more), a couple of spoon gouges along with one or two …
Yes, a wider selection of tools would make the job far easier.
The alternative, of course, is that the ones I already have are just badly handled.
Sharpening (some of) them is another problem. The straight ones are fairly easy – just modify the jig and the method I use for my turning tools while the bent gouge is a further modification, All those need just a reference to my list for tool projection and guide bar spacing (using jigs copied & suitably modified) but the very bent tool is a different problem, as yet unsolved, as are the very narrow one and the very short one.
