[Woodcarver] spanish galleon-sylda

[Linehan718 at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/8/2005 8:11:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sylda at kansas.net writes:

Maura, I’m finally going to internet to check out everyone’s work  — Your 
Spanish Galleon relief is really neat.  How thick is your piece of  wood?  How 
deep is the lowest area of the carving?  Will you be  entering it at shows?  If 
so we’ll be seeing it in the mags!!!
Thanks,  for the looksee.
Sylda


the piece of paduak i used was 2" thick, I went down 1 1/8 at the deepest  
part.  I choose the thick piece because i wanted to be able to  carve  out the 
area behind the masts and larger sails.  My pictures truly  don't  do the depth 
of the carving justice, you would need to see it in  person. the only part of 
the main sails which are connected to the  background is the center strip. I 
may enter it into competition if I ever  put the elbow grease in to sand the 
background better.  paduak is  a very hard wood to hand sand and getting in 
under and around the sails was a  formidable task.  I gave up before I had the 
finish i envisioned but may go  back and try to do some more sanding on it in 
the near future  

 
Maura carvin'  in  nyc
http://www.carvinginNYC.com
http://www.picturetrail.com/whiteknight718
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