Post #343197 by sar1 on Sat, Nov 10, 2007 3:37 PM

Ok, here's my first bone carving and what I thought was going to be a simple Koru pendent. I created the design on paper and since I'm not very good at drawing by hand I used Adobe Illustrator to make a cleaner drawing. I printed out the design and tack glued it to a small piece of bone. I used a scroll saw to rough out the inner and outer shape and found it has been a long time since I have used a scroll saw. For clean up and final shaping I used a Dremel flex tool and experimented with carbide and diamond points ball, cylinder, and fine tipped cones. I was having a hard time getting a good round shape and I was also having trouble with cutting the curves. The solution was I went out and purchased a jewelers saw and extra fine thin blades and a small swivel vise, very good investment as it made things a lot easier. It's not as good as I would like but, hey it's my first time carving anything.

I forgot to mention that my needle file set that I have had for years and never used came in very handy while working this piece.
[ Edited by: sar1 2007-11-10 15:37 ]

[ Edited by: sar1 2007-11-11 14:23 ]