Post #306758 by Babalu on Wed, May 16, 2007 12:47 PM

Hey,

Thought I would touch base with a little progress (might be a little premature really), but I had a question to pose to you all.....

First, I guess I should explain what I'm doing. I had read in a post somewhere, where Tiki Diablo was mentioning to a new carver to start with sketches, or a clay model before diving into the carving....this made great since to me to do a clay sketch as I feel it will help me to achieve a far more complicated design than I could if I was to just dive in.

This clay sketch that you are seeing below (though not completed) is to scale. I added an additional step to this sketch by building a wire guide to fit around it. The wire guide is to scale to the log that I will be carving on. I will scale up and transfer the line work on to the log to mimic the wire guide once the clay sketch it completed.

The clay sketch will be cut in sections then hollowed out and reassembled before firing. The clay will shrink a little in the first firing so I will use the clay sketch prior to firing in it's dry and fragile stage to sculpt the log from.

The scaled wire guide I made is just some common building sheet that I picked up at Home Depot.

Ok, as to the question.....Should Bubba here come equipped with "package"...

or without package?

Thanks for looking.