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In this video I make a wood sculpture out of basswood and olive wood burl. I first turned the pieces on the lathe and then I used my rotary tool to power carve the rest of the forms. I really want to thank my good friend Giorgos Laskaridis for sending me this beautiful piece of olive wood.
I begun by glueing two pieces of basswood together to make my stock.
I then turned this into a cylinder. Using a forstner bit I established my depth and removed some material.
I then hollowed my piece with a hook tool. I used the hook because this was end grain hollowing and that’s a tool that works well on situations like that.
I then cleaned the interior with my carbide tools and a side scrapper. I also taped a piece of sandpaper on a dowel to sand.
I then used my divider to divide the cylinder into sections. Then I drew my design.
I did most of my carving with my rotary tool and several carving bits.
The base was basically a small bowl. I made it using mostly a bowl gouge and a spindle gouge.
I also divided it into sections and I used my rasp carving bit to carve the bottom.
Finally I glued everything together and finished it with mineral oil.
I would also like to point out that after power carving, the project included hours of hand sanding. To do that I made several sanding blocks out of flat scraps, dowels and bamboo sticks. I just used double sided tape to connect the blocks with the sand paper.
But that was it. It was a really interesting project for me and I learned a ton of stuff. See you soon with a new project video.
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