This is an "in progress" version of the basswood practice. I actually kind of like the jacket-y feel it has? Might be fun to have one side like this and the other like the first image in the post above.

#woodcarving #adhd

Carving update! 🪵

I have a plan (sort of) for my Brandubh pawns: smooth / human(ish) upper torso with a shield-like head. I've been practicing using basswood and just had a try at using one of the oak blanks my father in law has prepared for me. So far so good I think! But I'll need to get the size of the bases down a little bit I suspect, otherwise the board is going to have to be massive...

#woodcarving #adhd

Bonsoir, il fait chaud, trop pour un breton

J'ai pas la motivation pour faire des sculptures très travaillées, alors voici un petit oiseau

#sculpture #WoodCarving #bird

Nouveau locataire pour la maison noisette. Il paye son loyer en mignonitude

#squirrel #sculpture #hazelnut #noisette #WoodCarving #miniatures

More carving this morning. A eight-pointed pinwheel in oak. This will be a brace on one of the two legs on the bench, and almost never seen, but I figure the braces are some of the last carving I’ll do before assembling and finishing the bench, so I can try more new things… This should “pop” a lot more once I get some finish on it. #woodworking #woodcarving

Je remercie chaleureusement le papillon pour sa coopération

#sculpture #WoodCarving #hedgehog #papillon #butterfly

Un petit #hérisson 🦔

#sculpture #WoodCarving #hedgehog

Je suis en avance pour #caturday

#sculpture #WoodCarving #MastoArt

Still hoping to make the Brandubh set but my attempt at making the geometric pawn shape in the image in the first post didn't go so well...turns carving neat geometric shapes from natural materials is actually kind of tricky. Who'd have thought!

Not me. Or at least, I didn't before I started. If I had stopped for a bit it probably should have been a little more obvious 😅

Sooo...I need to find another pawn design I guess? Or make half size little races for the pawns maybe.

#adhd #woodcarving

Wood carving update! I had a go at doing the classic "old man's face" and I think it turned out pretty well!

Picked up some cheap little chisels and gouges from a hardware shop in town and they seem to do the trick nicely. I don't think I'm getting a sharp enough cutting edge on my pocket knife yet which is probably a factor in why I'm finding removing larger sections of material pretty tricky...

For now at least I have another two foxes to make at the request of my kids!

#adhd #woodcarving

In "ADHD brain doing it's thing" news, I've taken up whittling as a hobby. I made a little fox! 🦊

I also can't feel my thumbs at the moment thanks to this and have been down a rabbit hole of looking into Tafl games ("viking chess") because making a full chess set sounded too ambitious...

Which has of course got me thinking about coding up a bot to play against bringing me back full circle to software which I'm pretty sure I was trying to get away from in the first place 😅

#adhd #woodcarving

Oldest Decoratively Carved Wood in Britain Found During Building Project | Historic England

#history #WoodCarving

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/oldest-decoratively-carved-wood-in-britain-boxford-timber/

Mini poussin 🐥

#sculpture #miniature #woodcarving #poule #chicken

Un #crapaud calamite

#toad #sculpture #WoodCarving

Ähre Schwesta, Ähre Bruda

Auftragsarbeit beim Bäcka

#woodcarving

Un exemple de différence de rendu de l'acétate de fer suivant le bois

Le grand chat, ça devient marron, les petits, ça noircit

#cat #fox #renard #sculpture #WoodCarving

Un petit #kitsune / #renard à trois queues

#fox #sculpture #WoodCarving

In Gedanken versunken...

#fensterfreitag #windowfriday #Holz #geschnitzt #woodcarving #mastoart

Just made a sheath for my Morakniv 120 whittling knife. It’s all wobbly and wonky but I’m so proud!

#leatherworking #whittling #woodcarving

Le #ragondin vous a plu ? il a maintenant un petit frère ^^

#sculpture #MastoArt #WoodCarving #miniatures