How to rate small ornaments craft wood

Wood carving crafts small ornaments there are many, such as figures, animals, Buddha beads, Buddha, Buddha cards, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., crafts are also divided into machine carving, artificial crafts.

Wooden small crafts through the wood carving process, the production of the general operating steps are: selection of material sketching, sawing outline (perspective carving), chiseling, shoveling, carving.

1. Selection of materials and sketches: selection of the required boards, the appropriate size, and leave room for mortise and tenon combination, the surface should also be flat and smooth. If you need to widen the seam, but also have to be bonded tightly to use. Put the drawn pattern on the board surface, left, right, up and down to the right position. If there are defects in the wood, such as knots and holes, try to avoid the carved parts and leave the carved parts. Patterns are usually placed on top of the processed board, and then printed on the wood with multi-writing paper. You can also draw the outline of the first rough blank, with the drawing with the carving.

2. Rough blanks: the painting sample printed on the board, with saws, planes, shovels and other tools to rectify the general outline, that is, into a rough blank.

3. Saw outline: if it is carved through the pattern, should be drilled with a wood drill, penetrate the wire saw in the saw outlines before chiseling.

4. chiseling: chiseling process generally use a mallet to hit the round shovel, chiseling fixed curves and contours, digging out the largest part of the process.

5. Shoveling: fixed curve chiseling, contour sawing can be shoveling, flat shovel shoveling requires shoveling the wood surface to leave traces of prongs, to keep flat, smooth lines. Because of the shovel shoveling petals, cloud pattern, back to the pattern should be based on the size of the backhoe, layer by layer shovel out. Skeleton through penetrating carving with a counter shovel or a round shovel head for shovel carving, the process must prevent damage to the carving.

6. carving: carving out lines with a carving knife, with varying widths of flat mouth spatula, round mouth spatula fine carving, flowers and leaves on the pattern, clothing patterns, animal body pattern, dragon's whiskers, can be combined with the fat whisker knife and other special tools for carving.

The following wood can be used for carving, the best is rosewood.

1, rosewood: valuable wood, produced in tropical Asia, brownish purple. Solid and delicate, commonly known as "mahogany", after carving by highly polished wax was black jade color, extremely beautiful. Suitable for fine carving, mostly used for high-grade crafts and practical crafts.

2, ebony: valuable wood. Produced in Hainan, China, solid texture, color black and grain, commonly known as ebony. There are true and false points, the water is sunk is true, the water is not sunk is false. Suitable for fine carving is used for high-grade handicrafts.

3, mahogany: valuable imported wood, produced in the southeast subtropical region. The texture is interlaced beautiful, solid and slightly rough material, the initial color yellowish red, long time to become purple-red, highly polished waxed extremely beautiful, suitable for doing all kinds of exquisite small pieces of crafts carvings and mahogany furniture carving.

4, sandalwood: valuable imported wood, produced in Southeast Asia, gray and yellow color, tougher texture, fine grain, there is a very good fragrance, suitable for carving all kinds of high-grade crafts.

5, rosewood: valuable wood. Is a specialty of Hainan Island, China, sapwood color pale, slightly loose, heart forest color reddish brown, hard, texture exquisite beautiful, suitable for carving all kinds of high-grade handicrafts and traditional furniture carving.

6, teak: valuable wood. Produced in southeast Asia and the southern region of China, the wood is hard and durable, slightly coarse structure, gray with waves and straight two kinds of texture, not easy to deform, extremely beautiful, but the carving requires a high degree of skill. Due to the teak diameter sewing larger, can produce large wood carvings.

7, nanmu: precious wood, produced in the south, the material is fine, fluffy, gray-brown and green color, there are wavy wood grain is gold luster, commonly known as "Jinshinan". It is suitable for carving simple and generalized and antique works, and has the beauty of ancient simplicity.

8, balsam camphor wood: produced in the southern region of China, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan and Guangdong for the most. Fragrant, yellow to gray-brown color, reddish brown. Material rough, strong durability. Interlaced texture is obvious, and the luster is beautiful. Since ancient times as a wood carving industry as the top materials, mostly used for antique wood carving and furniture wood carving, not easy to worm.

9, cypress: produced in China's Yangtze River Basin and Jiangnan region. Color yellowish to long dark yellow-brown. The material is fine and solid, straight grain but slightly brittle, suitable for carving relatively large and rough works.

10, linden: produced in the northern region of China, similar to the ginkgo wood, color yellowish white (also known as white wood), the material is light and soft and dense, straight and even grain, silky luster, very easy to carve. There is no deformation and no cracking characteristics, but not wear-resistant knock. Suitable for fine carving, mostly used for various types of relief wall decorations and general handicrafts.

11, boxwood: valuable wood, produced in the south of China, is a yellow hardwood, ivory effect. The material is tough and fine, the texture is meticulous and even, after carving by highly polished wax is extremely beautiful, most suitable for doing fine carving of small round figures.

12, birch: produced in the northern region of China, yellow-white slightly brown, pure fine texture uniformity, there are beautiful spots. Material hard, fine and bright, slightly heavy and easy to crack, suitable for carving small works and practical crafts.

13, color wood: similar to birch wood, produced in the northeast of China. Wood grain is more obvious with a strange sense of three-dimensional, after dyeing can replace the mahogany, suitable for carving small works and practical crafts.

14, tulip wood: produced in the northeast of China, the color gray and white, light brown gray-green brown or light reddish brown, wood weight and hardness of moderate, slightly coarse structure, more lax. The grain is ripple-shaped, after dyeing can replace the nanmu effect, not easy to deformation warping, especially suitable for large relief, or simple generalized round carving works.

15, yellow Polo: material characteristics slightly inferior to rowan wood, produced in the southern region of China, the wood grain is beautiful, delicate and bright, the first color bright yellow.

16, mountain poplar: produced in the south of China, the growth of less, fine grain. Wood in the soft, a hundred years into the wood. Mostly used in the production of screen screen hanging and other craft carvings.

17, water willow: similar to the flower of willow, produced in the northeast of China, the material is hard, straight grain, beautiful wood grain. Radial section was a beautiful parallel stripe pattern, half chord to the section was obvious varied band wreath. Because the wood is prone to warping and cracking, it is only suitable for carving simple generalizations or larger abstract round carvings, and it is famous for its special wood grain interest (picture right: ash).

18, Liu An wood: produced in Southeast Asia. Sub-white willow Ann and red willow Ann. White willow Ann structure coarse, texture flagon, easy to dry and processing; red willow Ann structure and texture with the above, radial cut surface pattern is beautiful, but drying and processing is more difficult, the two are suitable for carving simple and abstract works.

19, pine: produced in northeastern China, the Yangtze River basin south of the provinces and Taiwan. Pine larch, red pine, ponytail pine. Red pine is yellow-brown slightly fleshy red; horsetail pine dark yellow-brown slightly red; larch color yellow-white slightly brown. Pine due to the obvious demarcation of the annual cycle, resin road, and appear to be bold and beautiful wood grain, there is a strong decorative interest, but it is not easy to process, only suitable for carving simple generalization, abstract works. Coloring can play resin stripes for special treatment, such as contrasting colors, in order to strengthen the decorative wood grain.

20, ginkgo biloba wood: also known as white fruit wood, is also the production of wood carving of superior materials, produced in China's north and south of the Yangtze River. The wood is light yellow, texture soft and dense texture, poplar appearance, not easy to deform, long time when the color is deeper, suitable for relief and generalized round carving. But because of its medicinal value, belongs to the national protection of plants, currently used for carving materials are very few.