Siberian elm
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Some recent carving work I did to my Siberian elm that I found in a local garden Center here in Spain a year ago.
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Looks good, thanks for sharing.
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good start there.
As a tip: Take a look at carving bits like the bonsai nibbler. It looks like you did this work with a fairly small gentle carving bit. Lots of hours. If you take a nibbler, you can take away more volume and more easily create the general pattern in the wood, and use the smaller ones for detailing.
Hard to tell from your pictures: The lines you are carving; they do follow the direction of the woodfibres?
As a tip: Take a look at carving bits like the bonsai nibbler. It looks like you did this work with a fairly small gentle carving bit. Lots of hours. If you take a nibbler, you can take away more volume and more easily create the general pattern in the wood, and use the smaller ones for detailing.
Hard to tell from your pictures: The lines you are carving; they do follow the direction of the woodfibres?
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