Stone Carving: Q&A + Gallery... - Tiki Carving

T Tamapoutini Member Aotearoa (New Zealand) Joined: Aug 30, 2006 Posts: 1530	T Tamapoutini Posted posted on Fri, Feb 16, 2007 12:28 AM On 2007-02-15 23:31, flynny wrote: the VW logo was hard with so many internal surfaces. My question is, after using burrs at a faster speed for cutting followed by reducing the speed for sanding, how the hell do you continue to sand and polish in the tighter spots. I tried using wet and dry paper, but because I couldn't get any pressure I didn't get anywhere Yay for Flynny - Thanks for sharing this. The old "how the Hell do I get in and clean that up" problem, eh..? If only you could astral-travel over to my workshop young Jadi... One way to tackle the problem of tight-spots is to avoid them right from the design stage (I dont think Mr Volks or Mr Wagon had considered how well their new logo might translate into jade :lol: ) The only problem is that you wont really know what can or cant be done until you've had a go at making a few. Time & experience will hone this one. I would advise using 'diamond cloth' in between carving & sanding stages. This can be utilised in a number of ways (which I think have been discussed earlier?) & a good trick for getting into those holes is to hold the work in a small bench vice & feed a strip of diamond cloth (and later folded strips of wet n dry paper) through the holes & work back and forth with a little water. With me? Generally rounded/curvilinear forms are easier to clean up also; geometric shapes & tight corners are just asking for trouble... Hope this helps - and thanks for helping to rescue the Stoners thread, man... -- Tama :)

On 2007-02-15 23:31, flynny wrote:
the VW logo was hard with so many internal surfaces. My question is, after using burrs at a faster speed for cutting followed by reducing the speed for sanding, how the hell do you continue to sand and polish in the tighter spots. I tried using wet and dry paper, but because I couldn't get any pressure I didn't get anywhere

Yay for Flynny - Thanks for sharing this.

The old "how the Hell do I get in and clean that up" problem, eh..? If only you could astral-travel over to my workshop young Jadi...

One way to tackle the problem of tight-spots is to avoid them right from the design stage (I dont think Mr Volks or Mr Wagon had considered how well their new logo might translate into jade :lol: ) The only problem is that you wont really know what can or cant be done until you've had a go at making a few. Time & experience will hone this one.

I would advise using 'diamond cloth' in between carving & sanding stages. This can be utilised in a number of ways (which I think have been discussed earlier?) & a good trick for getting into those holes is to hold the work in a small bench vice & feed a strip of diamond cloth (and later folded strips of wet n dry paper) through the holes & work back and forth with a little water. With me?

Generally rounded/curvilinear forms are easier to clean up also; geometric shapes & tight corners are just asking for trouble...

Hope this helps - and thanks for helping to rescue the Stoners thread, man...

Tama :)

Post #286008 by Tamapoutini on Fri, Feb 16, 2007 12:28 AM