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We starting on the 'big picture': bosting, which means finding the overall shape and sense of bramble reaching over from the back. If we get this right, everything else follows...
| 23 October 2024 08:53
Tony - I get asked that a lot. Mostly, it seems I'm exploring the wood and not thinking too much, rather than visualising from the start. Rather like a painter: they have an idea of a landscape they want to paint but the painting itself is not the same, arriving through the actual process of painting.
One of the best things you can do to get a sense of your 3D work is to model in clay. You get to add, remove, tweak, bend etc in a way you can't with wood, and gradually work on your vision.
| 22 October 2024 14:54
Good morning Chris. Have you always been able to visualize objects three dimensionally? Might you have any suggestions/resources that might help the novice learn this skill? While I can 'hear' in 3 dimensions (spent my career as a choir director), 'seeing' is a different ball game! Thanks and hope your day was grand.
| 23 May 2016 12:41
Caerlynn - I use the same gouges across the types of wood I normally use (Lime to Oak). If the wood was much harder I'd increase the amount of inside bevel, thus keeping my low cutting angle as I bolster the strength of the edge.
| 21 May 2016 20:09
Hi Chris,
I would like to know if you use other sets of chisels when you're working hard wood?
thanks!
| 15 June 2013 02:45
Joe - That's a very good question and I do appreciate the point. The best thing I can think of is to play the video full screen, pause it where you want and print a 'screen shot'. Here's a website that tells you how to do this for most computers: http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/
| 12 June 2013 17:51
Chris - would it be possible to "print" a picture from the video? I do not have a drawing, photograph or otherwise still shot of you working. So when I leave the computer and go to the shop, I can't remember what it looked like! Maybe it's a right brain thing but a snap shot would really help.
thanks
joe clark
