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Rock Art => Carvings and Sculptures => Topic started by: auscarver on March 14, 2021, 12:17:20 AM
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My latest carving in progress, I used a fine grain pink rather than imperial red rhodonite as this is a test carving to work out my procedure, its working so far, very challenging piece, currently sanding on 240 grit.
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Very impressive, and beautiful.
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That is a really incredible piece.
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Very nice. :icon_thumleft: I have carved wooden chains in the past and toyed with the idea of attempting a couple links in stone. Its a challenge.
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Lovely piece! I so enjoy seeing your work when you have time to share.
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The lighter material on these is interesting, looks more translucent than I would expect for pink rhodonite.
How do you deal with heat in these thin links? I tried some thin sillouette carvings a while ago but I couldn't prevent it from shattering on the higher grits.
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Thanks for the great comments. I get very little heat when I Smooth and polish, I use diamond expanding drum belts on areas I can get to easily and diamond paper on the internal s by hand or soft diamond points, heaps of water used. The first steps of smoothing after rough carving I use silicon carbide sticks by hand wet, 220, 400, 600 carbide hand sanding then I change to diamond.
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Nice work!!!
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Thanks, all finished, I used a jade background for the photo, made the colour pop, no photo shop just good contrast.
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Luscious !
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Beautiful!