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Nasty corners day
It's time to start polishing. One of the nicest parts of finishing is picking in the corners where you...…
Experiment with a Cut-n-break machine (video)
I've arrived at the point where I can cut the openings between the ferns. However, some openings are so narrow that a normal angle grinder cannot reach there…
Almost getting there
All ferns are now roughly blocked out, All of the curls are carved, and now I look like I can reach the gaps between the ferns…
Drilling the holes
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Coming along nicely 2
Today I have mostly been busy carving the insides of the curls. Which means that there are twelve coils to be carved;…
Putting the sculpture straight up
Today I've been busy with internal transport. That's a fancy word for 'moving things around with a pump trolley and a shop crane'. A little less in stone…
Coming along nicely
It was lovely weather today, and I got pretty far with the sculpture. Must be because of that new diamond blade. To the first post about this projectTo the…
The sculpture is already in there, you just need to take away the rest…
The above statement is attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, and after that comment about that nose it's just about the statement I have heard the most…
70 percent debris
One is often not aware, but when carving a statue from a block of stone, only a small part of it remains. I…
'Never hit that nose off?'…?
The most asked question by visitors to a sculptor's workshop is the next: 'And what if you're nearly finished, and you accidentally hit that nose and it comes off…?’…
Direct carving vs indirect carving
Waist direct As much as I love chopping my way through the stone, it is not always the most convenient way…
Outlining the rough shape has started
Enlarging a design fortunately is no hocus-pocus. I made the model to a scale of 1 at 4, so it's just…