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Basswood Sheets and Carving Blocks: Log Sawn, Air-Dried and Planed
Basswood is light, soft and fine-grained, free of knots, and planes, glues and carves easily: the carver's and model-maker's wood. It does not split easily, so saw the log into boards, dry them, then rip thin sheets and cut carving blocks.
The picture: our diagram, log to stickered boards to sheets and a block.
Intermediate
Months of drying, then a day
Instructions
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Saw into boards
Saw into boards
Crosscut the log to length and rip it into boards about 25 mm thick, plus some thick pieces for blocks. Seal the ends.
Materials for this step:
Basswood Log (Tilia americana)1 pieceTools needed:
Crosscut Saw
Rip Saw
Tape Measure
Straightedge
End Sealer (paraffin wax)
Leather Work Gloves2
2
Air-dry
Air-dry
Stack the boards flat under cover with stickers between every layer and leave them until dry.
Tools needed:
Wooden Sticker (drying spacer)3
3
Rip and plane sheets
Rip and plane sheets
Gauge lines along the edge, rip thin sheets from the dry boards, and plane each to an even thickness.
Tools needed:
Marking GaugeRip Saw
Bench Vise
Hand Plane4
4
Cut blocks
Cut blocks
Saw the thick pieces into square carving blocks and plane their faces true.
Tools needed:
Hand SawHand PlaneTape Measure5
5
Sheets from a board
Sheets from a board
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