WDButler carvings

[willz]

Victorys stern carvings, all done with a stanley blade, totally done without mounting

 

[Chuck]

What is a stanley blade???  Pictures maybe

[cog]

Nice work William, very impressive. Short blade or a snap off blade ... straight or curved?

[willz]

this is a stanley blade, i find it easier to sculptor than a blade fixed in a pencil thingy..

 

 

rules there is no rules

Edited November 12, 2016 by williamDB

[willz]

heres a pic of my Vic stern, all carvings done with a stanley blade except for the band that goes all the way across, think i may still have a tutorial on how i did that if anyone is interested, cheers lads..

 

 

rules there is no rules

Edited November 12, 2016 by williamDB

[mrjimmy]

Very well done, William, and I love your choice of weapons.  Rules? What rules.

 

Jim

[dvm27]

Beautifully done, William. It's certainly easier to do this on a flat surface vs. on the model. Are you going to add the balustrades? That should be challenging.

[druxey]

That is very impressive for such a tool, William. 

[tlevine]

The 3-D definition is lovely.  Please share the tutorial.

[Moxis]

Wonderful work William. Which wood did you use? And how did you make that big carving in the upmost center of the Victory stern? I would also like to see the tutorial of your work.

[willz]

All my carvings are made of boxwood

 

Ok lads n lasses, the stern band. I thought a lot about how to do this, it seemed to me to be very tricky to get right with its symmetrical and fragile shape but when I came up with this idea of how to make it it turned out to be the easiest piece i`ve carved.

 

The band passes under the stern emblem in the centre, this allowed me to make it in two pieces

 

[willz]

I used a dremel in the spindle attachment to get the basic shape

[willz]

to get the gully shape i put a brass rod into some ply and left it sticking up 2mm,, then with rounded type cutter in the dremel I ran my piece down the edge of the brass rod,, (the ply with the brass rod was fixed to my dremel drill attachment)

 

 

[willz]

when happy with the gully I simply marked out the teethy cut outs, started at the marked area in the pic , to emulate the one on the real Vic. Then with my trusty dremel again in the spindle attachment I simply cut out the teethy shapes

 

[willz]

next just kept cutting away at the top side till happy with the thickness then simply drew round my finished piece to make an exact mirror image

[willz]

this is the marked point where i started the teethy things. so when you look at the finished band it looks perfectly symmetrical, and its not bad, but any discrepancy would be at the centre hidden behind the main emblem

 

 

rules there is no rules

Edited November 12, 2016 by williamDB

[willz]

as for the balustrades Greg i have dabbled with them, the problem is that they are not round and they are all cut at different angles. so heres a couple of pics of the different shapes, one is of the centre balustrade next to an ordinary pin for scale the other is of the centre balustrade and the other is the extreme right one

 

 

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[willz]

another one with a match

 

 

 

rules there is no rules

[willz]

hi Moxis, dont have much on the main emblem on the stern, but found a few pics finishing the left hand side as you look at it,  as i go i use a wet toothbrush for cleaning the piece

[mrjimmy]

Sorry, William, I could not find a button that says "Love This".  Very well done.

 

Jim

[cog]

Very, very impressive William

[DavePete]

Very well done.

 

How do you hold the pieces to carve them?

 

How about holding the blade? in a knife or just with your fingers?

[willz]

i hold then very gently DavePete, some pieces you leave a tab to hold on to, but the delicate twirls i hold on a small piece of ply and overhang the bit i`m working on, heres a pic of carvings still with there tabs on

Edited November 13, 2016 by williamDB

[willz]

i have not been carving very long but long enough to know to start thinking outside the box, heres one example of what i mean

[willz]

heres some more

[Chuck]

That is wonderful....but please lets keep the topic at hand focused on relief carving and decorative works.  

 

Thanks

[willz]

ok Chuck, dont have much in the line for leaners. but anything i put on my blog can be of help to beginners, they dont and shouldn`t dive in at my level but they can always look in, this is my free advice, and i know when i was learning i searched everywhere for everything on carving and to be honest there wasn`t much!!. So with no further ado here`s the different stages on my HMS Victory sheild

[willz]

i know this is advanced stuff, but anything is possible.

 

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[WackoWolf]

I love it. Keep the post and pictures coming.

[cog]

And that's done with the Stanley too  ...