Rob Keeble
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With this warm spell we having one could easily be duped into thinking its mid spring in Ontario right now, so i was not going to let the opportunity go by without at least a couple of hours of shop time.
So i wanted to try out my new scorp and make something small.
Well tool a small block of basswood and set about carving a teaspoon size spoon.
While bass is easy to carve heck the stuff i have is fury and splits so that was a total fail near end. Sorry no pic of that.
But some time ago Ryan suggested i try Cherry.
Oh boy, its the other extreme at least for stuff i have.
I like a carving that shows it was hand carved, not all perfectly sanded, this is not complete by any stretch of imagination, it really was just a small test.
Certainly works ones hands and tool edges to cut this wood but the cuts are cleaner.
Now if there was only a nice in between wood.....
I think the bass wood i have is a questionable slab dunno.
The new scorp ....well i had to knock off some seriously sharp corners at the point the handle meets the tool. I am not delighted with it. But that could be me. Got a strong feeling i got sent a left hand one instead of right. Oh well as scorps go it was seriously cheap so no harm done.
So i wanted to try out my new scorp and make something small.
Well tool a small block of basswood and set about carving a teaspoon size spoon.
While bass is easy to carve heck the stuff i have is fury and splits so that was a total fail near end. Sorry no pic of that.
But some time ago Ryan suggested i try Cherry.
Oh boy, its the other extreme at least for stuff i have.
I like a carving that shows it was hand carved, not all perfectly sanded, this is not complete by any stretch of imagination, it really was just a small test.
Certainly works ones hands and tool edges to cut this wood but the cuts are cleaner.
Now if there was only a nice in between wood.....
I think the bass wood i have is a questionable slab dunno.
The new scorp ....well i had to knock off some seriously sharp corners at the point the handle meets the tool. I am not delighted with it. But that could be me. Got a strong feeling i got sent a left hand one instead of right. Oh well as scorps go it was seriously cheap so no harm done.