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. Polishing was, as expected, quite a chore, but I managed.
I hope to find enough time the next few months between all the hustle and bustle to make another one.
I like it very much to be able to occasionally do this kind of meditative assignments; this is my form of yoga!
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After having copied measuring lots of points 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.
Once again it's a lot of manual work, because the sanding head of the machine is too large for all those little curves. Luckily I once, long ago, bought a few sets of toothbrush like things with diamond on it, that now come in very handy (see photo). I also have all kinds of diamond files and graters, and tapas picks with a piece of diamond sheet glued to them. Will be just fine!
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