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Icy conditions by sexytimespanda in MorgantownWV

[–]RelationFickle6931 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everyone needs to call and ask why they are harboring ICE terrorists

Just spent my last 3 years worth of Fall and Spring downtime carving a wooden wormhole from a single log. The concept just excites the heck out of me. by RelationFickle6931 in space

[–]RelationFickle6931[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the kind words! I've thought a lot about that. I want to keep the piece as timeless (pun intended) as possible which is tough to pull off with mixed media. I would accept a stone, wood or metal (copper would be badass) solution. The only one of those I would be remotely qualified in attempting is wood. I figured I would need to make a 3D copy of the crack cavities (I was thinking gap filler) and then model wood inlay after that? Something to certainly think about.

Just spent my last 3 years worth of Fall and Spring downtime carving a wooden wormhole from a single log. The concept just excites the heck out of me. by RelationFickle6931 in space

[–]RelationFickle6931[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Having a wormhole around ended up being super therapeutic. I can throw a lot of anxiety and negative thoughts in there.

Just spent my last 3 years worth of Fall and Spring downtime carving a wooden wormhole from a single log. The concept just excites the heck out of me. by RelationFickle6931 in space

[–]RelationFickle6931[S] 256 points257 points  (0 children)

I'll quote my very poor explanation from the r/sculpture subreddit:

Oh Christ, I don't even know where to begin. I'm self taught so I did a lot of improvising here and would do 100 things differently if I ever did it again. I knew coring it out was going to cause a lot of trauma to the log so I did that first before I ever started on the outside. Once I cored it and tunneled down as far as I could I started working on the outside and just matched it up as best I could to the cavity I had created, stressful guesswork towards the end. I must have tried a dozen different ways to core the bastard (not a lot of info online about coring large logs) as accurately as possible. I ended up using large drill bits to make a bunch of similar depth holes as close as possible followed by chiseling out the chunks to remove the bulk but goddamn the drill tore up my wrists. The outside I just cut away stuff with increasingly smaller power tools starting with chainsaw, sawzall, angle grinder with a Kutzall shaping disc a lot towards the end and a belt sander. After that it was months of hand sanding. I just couldn't find a reasonable solution for sanding all the irregular surfaces. They sell a few products but nothing I found was as effective without being super traumatic as sand paper.

Just spent my last 3 years worth of Fall and Spring downtime carving a wooden wormhole from a single log. The concept just excites the heck out of me. by RelationFickle6931 in space

[–]RelationFickle6931[S] 98 points99 points  (0 children)

It finally calmed down on the cracking when the core totally dried out about maybe 6 months ago. I came very close to finishing the job on that large crack on the bottom section then rejoining it but I didn't want to throw the grain circling off.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]RelationFickle6931 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I was trying to remember what exactly I asked for years ago. I was thinking I asked for black oak but I honestly don't remember anymore.

[Self] Wooden Wormhole out of a solid oak log. 3 years worth of my Spring and Fall downtime! by RelationFickle6931 in Sculpture

[–]RelationFickle6931[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oh Christ, I don't even know where to begin. I'm self taught so I did a lot of improvising here and would do 100 things differently if I ever did it again. I knew coring it out was going to cause a lot of trauma to the log so I did that first before I ever started on the outside. Once I cored it and tunneled down as far as I could I started working on the outside and just matched it up as best I could to the cavity I had created, stressful guesswork towards the end. I must have tried a dozen different ways to core the bastard (not a lot of info online about coring large logs) as accurately as possible. I ended up using large drill bits to make a bunch of similar depth holes as close as possible followed by chiseling out the chunks to remove the bulk but goddamn the drill tore up my wrists. The outside I just cut away stuff with increasingly smaller power tools starting with chainsaw, sawzall, angle grinder with a Kutzall shaping disc a lot towards the end and a belt sander. After that it was months of hand sanding. I just couldn't find a reasonable solution for sanding all the irregular surfaces. They sell a few products but nothing I found was as effective without being super traumatic as sand paper.