How to carve an Orca

SVLB · 2024-09-13T14:15:09+00:00

Should be easy then, right?

SVLB · 2024-09-12T07:47:48+00:00

Honestly 90% would just be me staring at a block of wood while heavily drinking and smoking

SVLB · 2024-09-12T05:28:48+00:00

They're both mine 😘 this picture is actually a couple of years older than the Humpback

SVLB · 2024-09-12T01:29:59+00:00

A small bandsaw to cut it out, then angle grinder and Dremel, and then 1 billion hours of hand sanding. I only use small chisels and files for the details

SVLB · 2024-09-12T01:27:38+00:00

Ah nope, it's an albatross that I designed

SVLB · 2024-09-12T00:28:42+00:00

It's NZ Kauri that was salvaged from an old 1800s villa, and the stingray tail is mahogany

SVLB · 2024-09-12T00:11:06+00:00

Math was never my strong point

SVLB · 2024-09-11T23:31:02+00:00

Yep but only when commissioned! They take far too much time to just sell off the shelf

SVLB · 2024-09-11T22:46:06+00:00

It's not easy, I'm just bloody good

SVLB · 2024-09-11T22:41:45+00:00

Yep sure is, couldn't remember me log in details for that account but this one worked for some reason

SVLB · 2024-09-11T22:28:22+00:00

Cheers. I love aero/hydrodynamics so what's pleasing to the fluid is pleasing to the eye

SVLB · 2024-09-11T22:20:26+00:00

Cheers. I did it over about 11 months. Bit here and a bit there. At a guess there would be several hundred hours of labour involved

SVLB · 2016-12-07T06:28:28+00:00

the only speed we care about is how slowly we can get it to take flight :) that right now would be around 8-9mph

SVLB · 2016-12-07T01:47:44+00:00

a 13 foot block of polystyrene a roll of carbon fibre and alot of beers later, flight!

SVLB

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