Tutorial An easy introduction to making wood ornaments by Stephan Kertész (Steef66)

Jimsky said:
Alright, folks, I've made some progress on my carving journey and wanted to share where I’m at. I’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts and guidance, especially if you can spot areas where I’ve gone off course (unless, of course, the whole thing is one glorious mistake!).
Constructive feedback is most welcome, I'm here to learn and improve.

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This is great JImsky! If I could make a few suggestions...
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Yellow highlight - don't pass over or through branches, instead stop before the intersection and come back with a rifler file and create a sharp corner. Then you can round that area with a file or the edge of an xacto knife by scraping. I like using an xacto knife to round edges on inside corners because it has a fine sharp tip and I can access the inside of a corner. Hope that helps. Don't limit yourself to one tool. I use all kinds of dremel bits, files, and an xacto knife on each piece I work on. I throw everything but the kitchen sink at it...ROTF
 
How big is that branch? If it is so "big" as I made it. Keep away other tools then the rotary. It will break. Mine was around 1,5 mm or smaller on these spots.
The flame burs like in post #51 or this one
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are perfect to create these sharp edges without the use of other tools that use 'force' to scrape the wood of. The use of the small rotary drill make it possible to gently take little parts of wood without bending the wood on very small parts.
Sometime a X-acto works faster, I use it to make a little scratch in the wood. That gives the bur a direction to go and not wandering around. But when the part have a diameter of 2 or less mm. You have to be careful not to break the wood.
 
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