How to carve a figure from wood

First, find simple in design, the model on which you are going to cut. Then you can use your imagination and cut the original pieces. If it is an animal, study its anatomy. Draw a few sketches of different angles of the future figurine and select the most successful variant of each view. If you want to cut the really existing object, just take a picture of the prototype figures at different angles.

Select wood for carving. Please note coloring of wood of various species of trees. Alder is a soft wood reddish or reddish-pink color. Birch - wood is white, with a yellow or reddish shade, easy to cut. Hawthorn wood is reddish or pinkish, easy to be processed. Aspen - the wood is soft, white, lightweight.

Since the figure is a volume product, it is often necessary to turn and explore in the process. Attach the billet bottom screws to the mounting block. The ends of the screws should not be visible from the finished product! All four corners of the mounting block cut to have more possibilities of rotation of the workpiece. Clamp the block in a vise.

If you want to cut an animal, don't start a thread from the head. Just mark its location on the workpiece with a marker or chisel. Along the top edges of the workpiece with a step of 25 mm make a few shallow cuts. It must be that the wood is not cracked. The chisel give the workpiece the basic shape, cutting the wood only at the same depth.

The excision of the parts necessary to start only when cut the basic shape of the product. First cut the head in General, then hair or wool, then mark the line of the eyes, ears, mouth. Start to cut out facial features, but eyes and ears should be cut last. Hands, legs or feet first mark without fingers, clothes, and claws. Just cut out the basic outline, proceed to a more detailed cut of clothes, shoes, fingers and other parts. Paint and cover with varnish the finished figure.