[Woodcarver] Carving basswood egg question

[Joe Dillett]

Rod said in part......
That was good advice, I am never quite sure how to do orientation before I
start carving.  Come to find out, I've been doing it wrong (surprise). Any
other advice on layout.  Is the most detailed part of the carving ideally
endgrain?
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Hi Rod,

Not the endgrain... The edge-grain, also known as the side-grain . There is
a difference. The endgrain is looking at the end of the log with all the
grain coming out straight toward you. It is not easy to carve endgrain.

Side-grain (or edge-grain) [quartersawn] is where Alex was telling you to
look for the front of your face. That is where the grain is the tightest and
not structured in layers like you would be seeing when looking at the
flat-grain [plainsawn]. The side-grain is like looking at the edge of a
stack of plates where the flat-grain is looking at the face of the plates.

Alex was saying that you carve into the edge-grain the structure of your
noise is stronger than the flat-grain because the grain in not stacked up
like plates. Also, as several said, the grain is tighter, when carving into
the side-grain, and looks much better.

Joe Dillett
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod TerMaat" <rtermaat at ameritas.com>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Carving basswood egg question


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> That was good advice, I am never quite sure how to do orientation before I

> start carving.  Come to find out, I've been doing it wrong (surprise). Any
> other advice on layout.  Is the most detailed part of the carving ideally
> endgrain?
>
> Incidentally, I attended my first carving club meeting in Omaha, Ne over
> the weekend.  Wow, there must of been 50+ people there.  I have never
> thought too much of relief carving, but one gentleman was carving a
> butternut portrait that was beautiful - it really opened my mind.
>
> I was only there 3 hours and doubled what little carving knowledge I have.
>  Everyone was quite a bit older than me so there should be a lot of
> knowledge available for transfer to my small brain.  I saw everything from
> beginning classes, caricature, lovespoons, pyro - something.
>
> nebraska rod
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> "Alex Bisso" <albisso at bresnan.net>
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> 02/20/2005 12:02 AM
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> It is best to put the front of the face on the edge of the grain.  That
> makes the nose stronger and less likely for the tip to flake off and also
> avoid target-like grain effects on the cheeks, etc.
> ALEX
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