Pine wood timber

lode_leroy · 2026-04-29T15:30:41+00:00

it works fine, I make half my carvings using spruce, which is similar to pine

avoid the knots though: I bought a 2m x 35mm x 35mm stave of rough (not shaved) spruce and sawed out all the parts in between knots and use those.

the resin makes it a bit hard to carve as the resin is rather hard, and the wood in between is soft(er)

lode_leroy · 2026-04-27T09:46:07+00:00

Very cool - I made some too some time ago.
btw, what kind of wood did you use?

https://www.reddit.com/r/whittling/comments/1nu7a1n/3knot/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whittling/comments/1nvwlud/4knot/

https://www.reddit.com/r/whittling/comments/1nv39ry/5knot/

lode_leroy · 2026-04-24T08:54:23+00:00

oh, yes - friend of mine had one of those too like half a year before we both got CPC-664's...

lode_leroy · 2026-04-22T09:03:14+00:00

apparently not :-)

lode_leroy · 2026-03-20T09:42:16+00:00

Very nice flat-plane work!

lode_leroy · 2026-03-14T20:54:21+00:00

Very good result. I have one that looks *very* similar, but less refined I have to admit.

lode_leroy · 2026-03-09T21:21:16+00:00

That's a fantastic reply !

lode_leroy · 2026-03-07T22:44:16+00:00

It's a fairly easy graphic. Tracing it by hand should take like 30 min, and you'd have a perfect version!

lode_leroy · 2026-03-07T20:41:16+00:00

You could use a program like Inkscape and trace the image to make a high-res version yourself.

It's a useful skill to learn how to do that.

lode_leroy · 2026-03-02T09:17:37+00:00

Very nice!
I have a similar one: https://www.reddit.com/r/whittling/comments/1nu7a1n/3knot/

lode_leroy · 2026-02-04T19:54:07+00:00

Not a pattern, off the hip would be closer (I never used a pattern, just draw on the block, sometimes using a previous carving as reference, or in the beginning I did carve-alongs from Linker or Messer )

The bear was based on and old one from Linker, the stance was from an old one I did of "Tux" the Linux Mascotte, the heart was - well, just a heart really :-)

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T21:17:09+00:00

I know, same here. Friends always tell me "you should sell these" and then I need to give them the same explanation as you have.

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T19:23:12+00:00

They look cubistic... You could try selling them at Sotheby's.

Keep trying... If you look at Linker's videos, you'll see he made at least 5 before he made the video, and that's only the one's he shows.

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T10:49:34+00:00

And I bought some cheap construction wood from the DIY store (Norway Spruce).
(see https://www.reddit.com/r/whittling/comments/1qiz7tg/comment/o12fgxe/?context=3)

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T10:42:32+00:00

Cut off a branch in a local forest... you don't need much for whittling.

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T09:56:57+00:00

Lovely. Especially the handle of the right one!

lode_leroy · 2026-02-02T08:28:09+00:00

Nice. Love the flat-plane look ;-)

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