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Colin Ventura
Colin Ventura
@ColinWoodArt@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

Work in progress. Tiny tree of life in a heart. Carved from boxwood.

#woodcarving #carving #treeoflife #miniature #woodworking

A tiny wooden carved heart, with a tree with multiple branches carved jnto it, right to the edge. Gaps between branches (and around the trunk) are completely cut away, to reveal whatever is behind it. Which in this case are the tips of two fingers. Behind (out of focus) is the top of a wooden workbench and two carving tools.
A tiny wooden carved heart, with a tree with multiple branches carved jnto it, right to the edge. Gaps between branches (and around the trunk) are completely cut away, to reveal whatever is behind it. Which in this case are the tips of two fingers. Behind (out of focus) is the top of a wooden workbench and two carving tools.
A tiny wooden carved heart, with a tree with multiple branches carved jnto it, right to the edge. Gaps between branches (and around the trunk) are completely cut away, to reveal whatever is behind it. Which in this case are the tips of two fingers. Behind (out of focus) is the top of a wooden workbench and two carving tools.
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Abhijit Menon-Sen
Abhijit Menon-Sen
@amenonsen@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

@ColinWoodArt How lovely! How do you hold something delicate like this while working on it? Or do you do the initial carving on a clamp-able block and cut out the heart afterwards? 🤔

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Colin Ventura
Colin Ventura
@ColinWoodArt@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 18 hours ago

@amenonsen No, I cut out the heart first, and then drill lots of little holes in the places where there will be gaps. And then just carve away, holding it in my hand.

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Simon Brooke
Simon Brooke
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 1 hour ago

@ColinWoodArt @amenonsen That's astonishingly fine work! I had assumed that you worked on a larger piece of wood which could be held in a vice or on a bench, and then cut the heart free when all the internal carving was complete.

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