Читать книгу Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 71 Summer 2015 - Группа авторов - Страница 25

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Cut the blank.

Cut the blank to size and trace the inner lines

of the pattern onto it. Drill 3/8" (10mm)-diameter blade-entry holes

in the top two corners. Insert a scroll saw blade or coping saw blade

into a hole and cut the cross and inside of the chain. Keep the waste

wood; you will need it in Step 3.

Rough out the inside of the chain.

Set a router with a

" (6mm)-diameter straight bit to remove one-third the thickness

of the blank—in this case, " (6mm). Attach four " (19mm)-thick

wood scraps along the outside of the blank; the scraps will support

the router. Use the router to remove the wood on the inside of the

links. Do not remove wood from the edges of the cross.

Clean out the rounded corners.

Use a pencil and ruler to

mark the square corners. Use a straight-bladed knife, a curved knife

sharpened on the inside of the curve, and a curved knife sharpened

on the outside of the curve to clean out the sharp corners. Do not

carve into the links. Use the pattern as a guide to draw the links

onto the blank. Shade the areas to remove.

Rough out the outside of the chain.

Place the waste wood

from Step 1 back into the center of the blank and screw it down.

Using the router, bit, and depth setting from Step 2, remove the

excess wood from the perimeter of the blank. Turn the blank over

and repeat Steps 2 and 3 on the other side to give the chain a cross-

shaped cross section.

Define the links.

Use an X-Acto #15 keyhole saw blade to cut

one-third of the way through each vertical link (down to just above

the horizontal link) on the front and back. Be careful not to cut the

horizontal link. Start with the fragile links on the two short ends of

the blank.

CROSS & CHAIN: PREPARING THE BLANK

Separate the links.

Use a 3/64" (1.5mm) #11 micro gouge and

a #11 hobby knife to carve away the center of each link, defined

by red lines on the pattern. Work carefully on the fragile end links;

you are carving across the grain. Finally, use the micro saw to finish

separating the links.

CROSS & CHAIN: CARVING THE CHAIN