Post #290995 by Tamapoutini on Sat, Mar 10, 2007 10:43 PM

On 2007-03-09 10:37, flynny wrote:
GMan
Don't know about you but I really struggle with some pieces sanding the fine detail. I've tried diamond bits on low revs and one or two diamond inpregnated silicone bits which I tend to eat as they usually wear real quick, but I still seem to struggle, I'm talking fine detail. On occasions I've gone back to Tungsten Gravers. You got any tips.
Regards
Flynny

Hi Flynny

Its been a long time since Ive done any, buy I did make my start with bone carving. My approach was to trim with an electric 'scroll-saw' & then remove any large areas of external waste with a very heavily diamond coated disc/grinding wheel (dry). I then did the internals & tricky bits with an electric handpiece using tungstan carbide burrs. I then smoothed all the shaping out with ordinary steel files ( I seem to remember experimenting with diamond riffler files but with limited success), & a final crisp-up with handheld gravers before sanding.

Hope this is of some help (although I never made any sort of name for my bone carving & am certainly no expert)

Tama :)