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Old 06-11-2008, 01:01 PM
Phil Coggan Phil Coggan is offline
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Default Re: Carving

The shaping of the leaves is done with standard flat chisels, you then refine the shapes with finer push flat chisels, scrapers and burnishers are used for the final smooth finish.

Ken,
To achieve black you have to make sure your tool really sharp, cut a series of lines and then cut over these lines only in a different direction, do this about four or five times, make sure your lines are very close to each other and not too deep. There's no magical formular.On the last pass, cut from right to left with diagonal lines, very light and close together.

Phil
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