woodworking help?
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I really want to get into woodworking/carving, especially carving cool pieces of wood with a dremmel tool. Space is limited in the garage and stuff. any tips on getting started?
Question posted courtesy of: Maureen
I really want to get into woodworking/carving, especially carving cool pieces of wood with a dremmel tool. Space is limited in the garage and stuff. any tips on getting started?
Question posted courtesy of: Maureen
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January 5th, 2008 at 12:29 am
make somthing for all your frends and family and teachers at school if you go to school!!ok!!make it out of wood!!!give them a wood box or somtin with there name on it!!and you will get discovered and if not go to a housse that has construction going on and ask them get there number and youll be on your way!!Lol bye !!!hope it works
January 5th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Go to a local hobby store. They have all kinds of wood carving tools are varying prices. They can suggestion the best wood to start using and probably has classes.
My Dad used to carve soap, which you always have around the house. He just used a pen knife. When he was done we kids had the koolest soap to use or give as gifts.
January 8th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Hi:
You could get one of the newer style stylus dremel tools. Those look great and very easy to use. Think about what you would like to try out - hopefully something fairly simple, and you might try to start with something that is fairly easy to work with. Try to get some scraps to practice on - you might try some of the freecycle groups. My spouse does a lot of woodworking, and I’ve been trying to get him to save the scraps to freecycle for kids for something like blocks or other people who might like to do something with it. Sometimes, he has really nice pieces of riff sawn oak - that is some beautiful wood. If you are in the metropolitan Kansas City area, there is a freecycle group on yahoo groups, and I’ll try to put some wood out there sometime soon.
I would probably also try to get some hand rasps or other hand tools for wood sculpting. There may be some help at the Compleat Sculptor.
Hope this helps.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:28 am
take a 2×2 board 8 feet long, draw on it to look like chain links. remove everything that isn’t part of the chain. whittle the links apart as you go. when you get done you will have a very unique wooden chain. I have seen them sell for a lot. when you get done post again and I will give you instructions on the next step. be patient this is very time consuming