{"id":168,"date":"2007-10-29T22:10:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=170"},"modified":"2007-10-29T22:10:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:10:31","slug":"wood-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Wood Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Santa Carving by Dan\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-171\" href=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?attachment_id=171\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/santa-1.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Carving by Dan\" \/><\/a>Whoa! I really got into the wood carving this weekend. In fact I kind of over did it. I think I spent two eight hour plus days doing nothing but carving a Santa. It is like a big cookie, high relief in a small 4 x 6 x \u00be inch slab of Basswood. My arms (not so much my hands) are telling me that was a bit much for just getting started. I think that means I am using the correct arm muscles and not just my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few drops of blood were shed when the very sharp knife point (like a pin prick) touched the back of my left middle finger. That doesn&#8217;t count so no real cuts! I have done the same or worse with a #11 X-acto blade building model airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of that time honing the bench knife and trying to get every tool extremely sharp. That is the secret to easy carving.<\/p>\n<p>The project looks very good IMHO. A little more clean up and I will be finished with this first carving. Then I have to paint.<\/p>\n<p>I like the totally free creativity in carving, so this is already habit forming. There are lots of subjects I want to carve. I have discovered another art form I enjoy. Soon every piece of wood I own is going to look like it needs a carving on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa! I really got into the wood carving this weekend. In fact I kind of over did it. I think I spent two eight hour plus days doing nothing but carving a Santa. It is like a big cookie, high relief in a small 4 x 6 x \u00be inch slab of Basswood. My arms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[13,21],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood-carving","tag-carving","tag-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}