You make exactly the point that still bothers me too, I don't know why I can't get this changed there either. Perhaps I need to bring up the corners of the upper jaw. I still have that space to do. After that, it belongs on and there is a shortage of wood. There is already more or less a shortage of wood at the mane. The former is not impossible to solve. I can always add a piece of boxwood against it. This was also done in real life. Carving wood is no longer a problem for me. It's quite difficult to get the proportions right.
Thanks, these pictures are always welcome. And these look exactly like the picture in the book. Let's say my lion isn't that bad at all. That lion looks like he was eating a bee hive.
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Hi Stephan,Thanks @Bela for your comment, we will see how far it will come. For the moment I leave it how it is.
Thanks @All for the visit and Likes. I didn't carve for a few days. I was working on the front feet of the lion and the dust was killing me. Even with the room dust collector and my home-made small shop vac.
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That last one is working good but the suction is because of the small opening not strong enough. So I needed something to work on and what takes the dust from below. Because the boxwood dust is lying around everywhere. This looks like flour, so you can imagine what's going on. And living in an apartment with an admiral who wants things to be clean..............
You see them sometimes on YouTube like sanding table/box or something similar. I rebuild my shop vac to a working table with dust sction. I wanted also something to higher up the workspace because of the working attitude and combined this to the machine below.
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That works perfect, the motor is low noise and low energy consumption. And the grid is made with my 3D printer. I used a dust bag from a nail-stylish dust machine.
And an old wine box
(I got a lot of them, all empty and we all know who is responsible. He is on holiday now, drinking a lot of wine on the beach I think
It works perfect, I sit and work in a more upright position and the dust is suck away in the box. So I can get on with my rotary carving of the lion again.
I seen your work Jim, I do believe when you practise rotary carving and you're not afraid to learn from the mistakes and start over. You will carve in a way what is yours. When I look back to all the time I spent in carving, it will be somewhere around the 500 hours to get to this point. And I'm still learning. I can't build that accurate like you do or like Paul (I do model building as long as he does).
Thanks Paul
Thanks Maarten, yes the surface is real smooth, different to carving. But you also need a more steady hand to achieve that. And sometimes you can make a better detail with a chisel. So I use both on some parts.
