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another day in the fish mines. is it worth listing these for sale here, do you think?
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#handmade

four small carved trouts made of redwood. three are finished and oiled; one is still rough and needs to be sanded and detailed

I haven't gotten the urge to carve tiny trout out of redwood out of my system yet.
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Der heutige Stream war klasse und die DnD-Figur sieht langsam schon nach etwas aus, finde ich.

#Schnitzerei #schnitzen #woodworking #whittling #Handarbeit #Kunst

Foto einer Hand, die eine kleine Holzfigur hält. Dahinter eine grüne Schneidenatte auf der Holzspähne und Schneidewerkzeuge liegen.

When you have many #rabbitholes in your life, here is one that the #whittling community might enjoy: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chess-carvers-amritsar-india

Maybe yet another project for me to carve a complete #chess set!

This is a much more dynamic santa that I carved. I've shown him off before but he's gotten a paint job now. Really love how the candy cane behind the back turned out. 😀 #woodcarving #whittling #santaclaus #caricature #practicemakesprogress #folkart #christmas #christmasdecor

look how fishful and fishious they are! wow! I did that and it only took me like a week!

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oh I'm going to be SO annoying about these, I'm unreasonably proud of myself

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three carved trout, each in a different type of wood: rosy redwood, silvery myrtlewood, pale maple

three carved trout, facing the other way

#TwoOfThem
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freshly oiled pair of small, carved, wooden trouts. one is redwood and the other is silvery bay laurel

another view of a pair of freshly oiled wooden trouts

starting position for today! these fish should end up about the same size, so even though I would describe a carving in this (left) state "90% done", there is still a lot of wood to remove
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two wooden trout on a mossy railing. one is silvery-grey and still very rough; the other, in golden wood with red streaks and swirls, is finished and oiled. their tails curve in opposite directions

anyway I thought "well it's still a week until my partner's birthday, and you know what's better than a carved wooden fish? two or three carved fish, in different types of wood!" so here we are. if I fuck this up I still have one pretty good fish done, so my handful of blessèd fedifollowers may have PROCESS PHOTOS (which I usually forget to take)
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#whittling

ever and always, Step One is the block. this is California myrtlewood, which is the fancy lumber trade name for bay laurel, the same trees whose dried leaves go in the soup

step two of carving a fish specifically is The Curve. now it's still mostly a block but with one long side carved round, tapering at both ends

step 3, the interior curve. now it's an arch, or an elongated C shape with one fat end

she doesn't go here so I'm free to say on THIS website "look at the fish I made my partner for her birthday next weekend"

#whittling #woodcarving

Whittling, a love letter
Where I talk about the art of wood carving, one of my favourite creative acts
https://sylvia.studio/whittling-a-love-letter/

#creativity #whittling #blog

perhaps if I take completely different photos of the same object?
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a small bear carved from a piece of redwood, poised on a rock surrounded by woodsorrel

the bear carving facing right. it is sitting upright on its haunches with one paw raised a little higher than the other

bear carving facing away from camera, showing the shags and dags carved into its fur

Did my first wood carving yesterday. I think i might be hooked!

#woodcarving #whittling #art #craft #artsandcrafts #fun

How To Fox, a TF Sequence
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a sequence of woodcarvings illustrating the various steps between An Unstripped Branch Section (#1) and A Small Wooden Fox (#11)

carved raccoon with woodburn details, an experiment

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a simple raccoon carved from a small piece of redwood, with blobby lil fat legs and a kinked tail, standing on moss. there's a little larva sticking out of the moss, too, I just noticed

top view of carved raccoon. the mask and rings on the tail are scorch marks

carved raccoon facing camera, showing the burn marks that define its eyes, nose, and mask

Here are a couple of wooden figures I carved. I tried a new technique—burning patterns into the wood with a soldering iron. I think it worked quite well. These figures don’t really have a specific story behind them, but perhaps they could be seen as some kind of spirits or gnome-like beings from Finnic folk belief. Kalevala often comes to mind with wooden figures like these, but that’s not really my goal or intention when carving. The pieces just tend to turn out the way they do. I don’t usually make detailed plans, as I wouldn’t know how to follow them through into finished works anyway.

#WoodWorking #WoodWork #WoodCarving #Carving #Whittling #HandiCraft #PixelFedArt #Art #MastoArt #Puutyöt #Käsityöt #Veistely

More carvingmania from the early 1980s. These were going to be bolo tie slides. #whittling #archaeology

5 carved projectile points made of red cedar, black walnut & pine.

one of my partner's favourite neighborhood trees, a California buckeye, was cut down a month or so ago and I wanted to make her a little fetish out of the salvaged wood to memorialize it. buckeye, it turns out, is very fibrous and hard to work with, but I am pretty happy with this jackrabbit.

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a small carved jackrabbit, sitting on its haunches, on a mossy railing in the woods.

carved jackrabbit facing away and to the left, showing a horizontal heartwood scar across its back

#woodcarving #whittling #art #sculpture #Schnitzen #Holz #wood #whittle #Nordstadtwichtel #Northcityimp #woodwork #carving

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