Feedback plz
Interested in feedback on these concept designs. I think I'll shorten them a bit for better proportions. Pawn, rook, knight, bishop and king left to right.
u/Glen9009 — 1 day ago
u/Glen9009
▲ 54 r/whittling
Stupid idea N°X proof of concept: pocket chess set - pawn
Sometimes it feels like making a chess set is among these "everyone has to do one" projects in the community. But I'm stupid so I had to make it harder for myself.
Carved out of a bamboo barbecue skewer (3mm diameter) with a neodium magnet (2mm diameter) inserted in the base so it could be reasonably stable on a base including a hidden steel sheet.
u/Glen9009 — 2 days ago
▲ 15 r/Woodcarving
Stupid idea n°X proof of concept: pocket chess set - pawn
Sometimes it feels like making a chess set is among these "everyone has to do one" projects in the community. But I'm stupid so I had to make it harder for myself.
Carved out of a bamboo barbecue skewer (3mm diameter) with a neodium magnet (2mm diameter) inserted in the base so it could be reasonably stable on a base including a hidden steel sheet.
u/Glen9009 — 2 days ago
▲ 13 r/whittling
Homemade strop
When the topic of the ever important strop comes up (about all the time), I see plenty of people recommending big brand made strops at prices that give me a heart attack. So here is a handmade strop that cost me a whooping ... 3-4€ maybe?
Wood is a board of pine from a bed that was laying in the street because some was throwing it away. Cost nothing and the board has proved useful for a number of small practical projects (it is awful for carving tho). Cut to size with the coping saw from the supermarket for my woodcarving projects.
Leather is a cowhide leather belt back bought at a second hand shop for 2€. It's pretty hard leather and does the job well, I just had to cut it to length with my woodcarving blades.
Leather strips are glued to the wood with basic cheap superglue from the supermarket. Maybe 1€ worth of glue?
Anti-slip pads are from the supermarket too and represent maybe another 1€? The glue on them being quite weak and wanting to adjust the individual heights to make sure the whole was stable I made them small recesses with my woodcarving tools.
I made it with two leather strips because I like to use two compounds but it can absolutely be made with just one strip for green compound only. The brown compound is coarser than the green one and makes removing burr and fixing minor damage a bit faster. The white one is finer than green compound and makes for some very fine edges. Got them as a pack in the hardware store and they are big enough that they'll be enough for a lifetime if I don't use them for anything else. Obviously the brown and white marks on the wood are just reminders of which compound is where for when they're both gonna be black from stropping.
As you can see in the last pic it allows to reach hair whittling no problem although I could achieve about the same result with a free strip of leather (not glued to any backing) and green compound (it does need to sit on a hard, flat surface like the surface of a desk while honing most blades nonetheless).
(Compound is better spread than the pic shows, it's mostly a matter of reflection and I added a tiny bit more in some areas but that's about the quantity you want.)
(If you use more than one compound, clean your blade before moving from one to the next so you don't contaminate a finer compound with coarser grains.)
u/Glen9009 — 3 days ago
▲ 8 r/Woodcarving
Homemade strop
When the topic of the ever important strop comes up (about all the time), I see plenty of people recommending big brand made strops at prices that give me a heart attack. So here is a handmade strop that cost me a whooping ... 3-4€ maybe?
Wood is a board of pine from a bed that was laying in the street because some was throwing it away. Cost nothing and the board has proved useful for a number of small practical projects (it is awful for carving tho). Cut to size with the coping saw from the supermarket for my woodcarving projects.
Leather is a cowhide leather belt back bought at a second hand shop for 2€. It's pretty hard leather and does the job well, I just had to cut it to length with my woodcarving blades.
Leather strips are glued to the wood with basic cheap superglue from the supermarket. Maybe 1€ worth of glue?
Anti-slip pads are from the supermarket too and represent maybe another 1€? The glue on them being quite weak and wanting to adjust the individual heights to make sure the whole was stable I made them small recesses with my woodcarving tools.
I made it with two leather strips because I like to use two compounds but it can absolutely be made with just one strip for green compound only. The brown compound is coarser than the green one and makes removing burr and fixing minor damage a bit faster. The white one is finer than green compound and makes for some very fine edges. Got them as a pack in the hardware store and they are big enough that they'll be enough for a lifetime if I don't use them for anything else. Obviously the brown and white marks on the wood are just reminders of which compound is where for when they're both gonna be black from stropping.
As you can see in the last pic it allows to reach hair whittling no problem although I could achieve about the same result with a free strip of leather (not glued to any backing) and green compound (it does need to sit on a hard, flat surface like the surface of a desk while honing most blades nonetheless).
(Compound is better spread than the pic shows, it's mostly a matter of reflection and I added a tiny bit more in some areas but that's about the quantity you want.)
(If you use more than one compound, clean your blade before moving from one to the next so you don't contaminate a finer compound with coarser grains.)
u/Glen9009 — 3 days ago
▲ 126 r/whittling
Beech (?) comfort whale
Blocked out with a 18mm chisel then carved with a Mstein N10 detail knife.
Felt like carving last evening, checked my cutoffs box. This piece kind of looked like a whale so here we are. I suspect it to be beech (if anyone's better at identifying wood I'm happy to be corrected).
Knife finish, raw. Actually pretty smooth, guess it could work as a comfort whale. Planning to gift it.
u/Glen9009 — 15 days ago
▲ 81 r/Woodcarving
Beech (?) comfort whale
Blocked out with a 18mm chisel then carved with a Mstein N10 detail knife.
Felt like carving last evening, checked my cutoffs box. This piece kind of looked like a whale so here we are. I suspect it to be beech (if anyone's better at identifying wood I'm happy to be corrected).
Knife finish, raw. Actually pretty smooth, guess it could work as a comfort whale. Planning to gift it.
u/Glen9009 — 15 days ago