Finished My First Head Carving

Len McIntosh · Post by **Len McIntosh** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:26 am

Chris, im inspired, beautiful, job thanks for sharing.

John Kingma · Post by **John Kingma** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 1:02 pm

Wow that looks really great Chris.

Steve Senseney · Post by **Steve Senseney** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:56 pm

Nice work!

What part of the work was done with the checkering tool?

Chris Paulick · Post by **Chris Paulick** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:23 pm

All the straight lines were touched up with it and the far right set was cut with it. The longer one is more of a liner which purpose it to cut straight lines. By tilting it to one side you can get an angle cut to that side and a straight wall cut to the other. If you look closely you can see the angle cut on the thumbnail pattern. You can achieve the same effect with a 60 degree V tool or two cuts with a knife. But the liner makes it nice and straight and easy work of it. It sort of files it and you really don't have to worry about grain direction.

Matthew Lau · Post by **Matthew Lau** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 12:38 am

Whoa.

Nice work.

What setup for the dental thing did you use?
I just bought an NSK Ultimate XL off Craigslist for cheap.

Chris Paulick · Post by **Chris Paulick** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:33 pm

I have a SMC 400XS. I also have a GraverMax with some wood carving chisels but haven't used them yet. I think I might be able to adapt other chisels to the hand piece if I can file the tangs down to fit. But that's down the road sometime...

Tyko Runesson · Post by **Tyko Runesson** » Sun Jun 23, 2013 11:45 am

Very very nice work!

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