How to learn carpentry carving?

Tools: knives, carving knives, electric mills, pencils, gloves, masks, translucent paper, blue paper, sandpaper, polishing oil, olive oil, etc.

Raw materials: radish, wood block, peach or peach pit, olive pit, etc.

1. At first, it was suggested to practice carving something simple with radish, such as gourd. You can find a gourd to observe carefully, and then carve the radish into a gourd with a knife according to the outline of the gourd! Be sure to practice more.

When it is easy to carve the toys or ornaments you want with radish, you should first find out the pictures and texts you want to carve on the carving, or directly search online, and you can easily find the patterns you like. Practice more on radish!

2. Below you can buy a set of carving knives suitable for you, which are generally not difficult to buy, and are sold in flower and bird markets. If you have enough RMB, you can buy an electric mill, which is much faster than a meat cleaver! Remember to use a woodworking drill!

First, carve small pieces of wood, peach wood or practice peach stone into the required shape, then draw the required pattern on transparent paper, and then draw it on the carved chess pieces with blue paper. If the art foundation is good, you can draw directly. Then slowly carve according to the grain. (Generally, convex and concave lines are easy to distinguish between online and offline drawings. )

3. Grinding: firstly, grind with coarse sandpaper, and then grind with fine sandpaper after carving is smooth. If it is peach wood, peach stone and olive stone, it is better to add some oil. Olive oil is the best, if there is no other salad oil. )

Matters needing attention

When carving, you must pay attention to safety, do a good job of safety protection, and prepare gloves and masks. Finally, transparent paint can be used when oiling, and the effect is the best.