Two years after the first padukas, about which you can read here→ more, I continued carving the second set of padukas in black granite. …Read the whole article…
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Padukas finished
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The black granite paduka's I previously worked on have been finished for a long time, but I have been very busy and my blog has suffered for it (I plan to correct the backlog in the next week…). Polishing was, as expected, quite a chore, but I managed. …Read the whole article…
Padukas: lotus and polishing
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After measuring with the pointing machine and some other works in between I continued with shaping the paduka's in black granite. On the feet, I added the symbols of Vishnu: the conch, the disc and lotus flowers. On the profile on the side the lotus motif will return, and that's what I am carving now, sanding and polishing. …Read the whole article…