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<\/a><\/p>\nGetting them to similar sizes and nesting together was an exercise of time and precision, but work that could be done in a warmer part of the house. A piece of 1\/4 inch plywood forms the backing. A rough dab of hide glue holds each. If there is any movement, they might be free to dance around a bit. And Ralph; no mitered corners. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Overall size about 18″ square.<\/p>\n
Design sources:<\/p>\n
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- Most were carved before I took any classes from Mary May<\/a>. In her beginning relief carving class<\/a>\u00a0she ~usually~ teaches the donut<\/a>, simple flowers<\/a>, fan<\/a> and linenfold<\/a>. Grapes<\/a> come a bit later and there’s a big secret to them. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
- The acanthus shapes, c-bar, and coils are from Kurt Koch’s Complete Guide to Architectural Carving: 7 Skill Building Exercises to Master the Techniques<\/a>
. 1<\/sup><\/li>\n
- The stars and rosettes from Rein957’s “Esercizi su legno<\/a>” on YouTube.<\/li>\n
- Others from Frederick Wilbur’s Carving Architectural Detail in Wood: The Classical Tradition<\/a>
. 2\u00a0<\/sup> ANY of Wilbur’s books<\/a>
will satisfy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
1<\/sup> “Complete” is completely inaccurate in the title of Koch’s book. It is a collection of 7 carving exercises. Good, but not “complete” in any sense.
\n2<\/sup> One of 3 similar books, Wilbur covers a much broader range of architectural carvings than Koch. Very highly recommended.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shop is still too cold for what I want to do next; finish the “words box.” So, do something else! \u00a0There’s been a pile of little practice carvings stacked on a window sill for a few years. All were carved in February to April 2012.\u00a0The stack made a nice home for spiders, but even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-woodcarving","category-woodworking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- The acanthus shapes, c-bar, and coils are from Kurt Koch’s Complete Guide to Architectural Carving: 7 Skill Building Exercises to Master the Techniques<\/a>