"In the style of..."

[rraposo]

Hi folks,... if you remember i had tried my hand at Doolittle's piece (from this post - https://forum.woodcarvingillustrated...elses-carvings )... i then decided to, as suggested, finish it and keep it for my own pleasure. Unfortunately i managed to break the ****ed thing while working on it. So... fast forward to present day and i've decided to try and have another go but this time make it bigger and in a different wood... By the way i have another piece on the works and this one is also in his style but totally different from whatever he has made so far. Can't wait to start posting pics of it. On the first picture i have it next to a can of redbull just to give an idea of it's size. In the back you can see the first one i made... It is glued up though.

PS: Just a quick note. This is not to be sold. Just for my own pleasure.

[pallin]

The wood in your project looks very much like sycamore, with a significant area of core wood. I found the core wood to be very different and difficult in this chip carving:

[rraposo]

The wood in your project looks very much like sycamore, with a significant area of core wood. I found the core wood to be very different and difficult in this chip carving:

I'm using acacia wood. I have been trying to find it's translation into english but just keeps saying that it's the same name. Here is it's latin designation (i think) Acacia heterophylla. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_heterophylla

[woodburner807]

Beautiful wood and can't wait for the final piece.

[Glenn Jennings]

Love the design. you manage to find some most interesting pattern to work from. Look forward to watching the development of the piece.

We have acacia in New Zealand as well. The type we have is unusual in that it burns well in the fire when just having been cut and is relatively soft and easy to cut. But when it dries it is like steel. I cooked a chainsaw blade trying to cut the dry stuff once . The type we have has a quite yellow look to it. Almost lemon in colour. Just the useless piece of information for the day hehehe. I find the properties of different woods interesting so thought others might be interested.

[rraposo]

This wood takes the word dense and elevates it into a whole new level. ****... this thing is hard lol.

[Claude]

The Wood Database doesn't list A. heterophylla, but has numerous others. Supposedly over 1000 species in Australia!!

https://www.wood-database.com/hardwo...baceae/acacia/

[rraposo]

Hey all.... Yh. Extremely hard this wood is... However it does look gorgeous in some parts. I think this might be derived from some African variety, i say this because we (the portuguese) brought a lot of stuff from there. Here's how it is atm.

[rraposo]

Quick update... It's been going very slow this one.

[Glenn Jennings]

Hi Rraposo
I can see how that will take a lot of time to do. A lot of wood to be removed from some very confined spaces. Looking good on the rough out. Will be watching with interest on this piece. is going to be tricky to carve the leaf patterns on the outside edge without cracking the ring going around it all. That will take a light touch. Best of luck buddy!!! Look forward to seeing this piece evolve.

[woodburner807]

Nice progress and you'll be able to do rock carving when done...

[rraposo]

Glenn Jennings before actually doing any work on the ring i'm going to do the leafs (that ring is going to become a rounded off wood branch (flower stem?? don't know the name lol) imitation. So i need to calculate where exactly the leaf goes since the branch won't be straight. But i think might be the only way to do it without breaking stuff..
woodburner807 Oh god yes. Never worked on such a hard piece of wood before. Keep having to resharpen the gouges.

[sappy]

Very interesting design, this is going to be beautiful! You must like challenges!

[rraposo]

Very interesting design, this is going to be beautiful! You must like challenges!

I do like a good chalenge indeed. I'm just hoping that it won't be too much...

[rraposo]

Little update. Before and then after some holes.