keith Plummer Posted March 17, 2013 Report Share Posted March 17, 2013 Hello My name is Keith and have been carving wood and making jewlery for the last 3 years and have moved into working antler and bone this past winter and just love working with this medium and exploring my voice with it. Hope to upgrade my tools and was looking at a turbo carver but read some bad reviews,so now I am looking into a paragrave system .Any suggestions as to what a reliable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony N Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 pleased to meet you check out these threads hope they help check out tools and technical i use a air comprsser and air tools as well as a dremel with a flexi shaft i find the miro die grinder works the best with small bur bits from a company like regal jellery check them out www.regal.co.nz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Ho Keith, Welcome arround. What's the wood on the first picture? As for turbo carver, I do remember that Billy did a review about some on his blog (http://toi-rongomau.tumblr.com/archive) you might find it useful, especially because it is done by someone who's talented Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith Plummer Posted March 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Thanks for the tip and websites ,just waking up to a blizzard Hmmm !spring takes a long time to happen here. The wood I have been using is spaulted whjte oak limbs, end grain is really tough to keep from splitting ,so I heat and immerse in wood hardener Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janel Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Hi Keith, Wood cross sections that contain the pith or central growing point tends to split when drying. I don't know the trick to keep it from splitting. Some of the boxwood that I have acquired over the years has some smaller diameters that did not split. Perhaps very slow drying with the ends sealed, over many years might be why.. Janel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith Plummer Posted March 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Yes the end grain is tough to work and I think spaulting helps with weakning the grain but is real interesting to use and the pith in oak is always in the form of a 5 point star and this occurs also when a new limb forms ,nature is so awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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