Nice work. Really fine. You are lucky, living in a place where you find out, such as soft wood like this one. In my country, I cant find a wood like this easily. All you have done, is great!!!
Love the carving, really nice indeed, very good tutorial and a great camera view. I'm just over 2 months into carving. I'm in the uk and never seen cotton wood bark, I've seen carvings on FB groups but never in its uncarved state. Excuse my naivety, it looks decent to carve. I also like the use of the V tool, as I struggle sometimes using a knife to cut grooves.
I live in the North East of England, It’s very frustrating to see carvers using not just this cotton wood, which is limited supply in this country, unless anyone can tell me otherwise, but also what I am sure is a better quality of basswood, which is also limited in supply and sizes. I say a better quality only because it seems easier to carve, I appreciate knife quality and sharpness is important but I have Flexcut knives and am knowledgeable in sharpening cutting tools, so although mine may not be quite as honed as the experts I still feel they aren’t capable of cutting the bass wood, available to me, as easily as the experts. I have also tried Lime but I think this is even worse, imo.
@@boblawrence5011 My basswood comes from north central USA and some from the UK, both are good, but the USA variety grain seems to be more "clear" and not having many dark streaks. Also one of my local carving suppliers sells discount bags of "mismatched cut-offs" in a variety of smaller sizes packaged together. In these bags there are softer and harder basswood, as well as some with streaks and clear grain. I also use FlexCut, plus other brands and a few custom sets and sharpen my own. I have not had any trouble with and bass work nor maple or oak. One note for your problem cutting some apparently "not so good quality" basswood is to be sure your knives and chisels are extra sharp when cutting softer wood (which seems contrary to logic). The fact is that softer woods often are not be strong enough to allow a good clean "push-cut" and tend to compress, tare, and bunch-up in front of the blade or chisel edge and make a little wall of resistant... The best way I found to solve this taring and bunching-up problem is to sharpen chisels and knives OFTEN, or use "thinner" blades and take smaller cuts, and if necessary,try to cut more dense pieces/blocks if they are available. I'm not a pro, so my advice might be lame, but this is what has been my experience in working with a large variety of basswood, peach, oak and maple.
I love this video love love when u carve out complete small detailed carvings from start to finish. Longer the vid on these type of carvings the better gives me a more in depth about the online school/courses I been seriously thinking about doing considering I carve mostly small characters, wood spirits and marionettes. 🫵🏼💎💛👊🏼
New to your channel, subscribed. Only the only thing I would have wished for would be if you brushed your work off a little better as you showed us the proper way to use the tool. Which would have granted my old eyes a better “window” of what each step looked like as you completed it. Thank you though for filming this pumpkin dude, I look forward to giving it a go.
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I love the sound of the knife going through this wood lol.
Beautiful well done great camera work
Nice work. Really fine. You are lucky, living in a place where you find out, such as soft wood like this one.
In my country, I cant find a wood like this easily. All you have done, is great!!!
Lame taglienti, bravura indiscutibile, risultato opere di rara bellezza ...sei un GRANDE artista, un saluto dall'Italia
i wish i could have this pumpkin man... it is an unbelievable performance
MAN!!!!! you can carve i learned a lot from you !!!
Love the carving, really nice indeed, very good tutorial and a great camera view. I'm just over 2 months into carving. I'm in the uk and never seen cotton wood bark, I've seen carvings on FB groups but never in its uncarved state. Excuse my naivety, it looks decent to carve. I also like the use of the V tool, as I struggle sometimes using a knife to cut grooves.
you are so good with the faces you carve!
Brilliant carve …that’s my weekend project 🎃
Fantastic video Alec i love watching you work
I am so trying this,. Great video easy to follow too. Just a couple of tools. Thanks Alec.
I wish I could carve one like that
That was fun to watch. I love your little pumpkin man. ❤
Fun project yet mine did not look anything like yours but I like it anyway. Thanks for the tutorial
Another beautiful project from you. Thanks for sharing!
Great whittle
WAAAAAY COOL! You Rock.....
Love it Alec. Your are the master. ❤❤
Thank you! 😃
Really cool man, love it
Brilliant!!
Very nice carve ❤👍
That looks awesome! Neat idea.
Nice carve
Great work! 👍👍👍
I've been seeing a lot of bark carving videos in my feed lately, now I want to order some and give it a go! 🤔💁💁💁
I live in the North East of England, It’s very frustrating to see carvers using not just this cotton wood, which is limited supply in this country, unless anyone can tell me otherwise, but also what I am sure is a better quality of basswood, which is also limited in supply and sizes. I say a better quality only because it seems easier to carve, I appreciate knife quality and sharpness is important but I have Flexcut knives and am knowledgeable in sharpening cutting tools, so although mine may not be quite as honed as the experts I still feel they aren’t capable of cutting the bass wood, available to me, as easily as the experts. I have also tried Lime but I think this is even worse, imo.
@@boblawrence5011
My basswood comes from north central USA and some from the UK, both are good, but the USA variety grain seems to be more "clear" and not having many dark streaks. Also one of my local carving suppliers sells discount bags of "mismatched cut-offs" in a variety of smaller sizes packaged together. In these bags there are softer and harder basswood, as well as some with streaks and clear grain.
I also use FlexCut, plus other brands and a few custom sets and sharpen my own. I have not had any trouble with and bass work nor maple or oak.
One note for your problem cutting some apparently "not so good quality" basswood is to be sure your knives and chisels are extra sharp when cutting softer wood (which seems contrary to logic). The fact is that softer woods often are not be strong enough to allow a good clean "push-cut" and tend to compress, tare, and bunch-up in front of the blade or chisel edge and make a little wall of resistant...
The best way I found to solve this taring and bunching-up problem is to sharpen chisels and knives OFTEN, or use "thinner" blades and take smaller cuts, and if necessary,try to cut more dense pieces/blocks if they are available.
I'm not a pro, so my advice might be lame, but this is what has been my experience in working with a large variety of basswood, peach, oak and maple.
Good job ❤❤❤
Good prodac
Que madera es la que tallas?
Gracias
Cotton wood
I love this video love love when u carve out complete small detailed carvings from start to finish. Longer the vid on these type of carvings the better gives me a more in depth about the online school/courses I been seriously thinking about doing considering I carve mostly small characters, wood spirits and marionettes. 🫵🏼💎💛👊🏼
Where do you get your cotton wood bark? Looks like the face of an Indian. Very nice job. God bless.
👍👍👍
nice paint the face with blood haha trick or treat
Absolutely incredible.. what size v-tool was used for mouth? Considering signing up for your classes
@@shoey64He just gained a ton of followers. When you get 16 million views on a single video, you get more comments per day than you can answer.
@@halflingcarvings
👍 thx.
1/8inch 60 degree V ! Thank you so much!
New to your channel, subscribed. Only the only thing I would have wished for would be if you brushed your work off a little better as you showed us the proper way to use the tool. Which would have granted my old eyes a better “window” of what each step looked like as you completed it. Thank you though for filming this pumpkin dude, I look forward to giving it a go.
Thanks for the heart but where do you get your cotton wood bark? Please
He gets it out west somewhere. Goes to dakotas or Montana to harvest it. If you’re looking to buy, chipping away usually has some in stock.
@@halflingcarvings
Thanks for your help I can't seem to get an answer from him.
Yes sir! I find it near the rivers in Montana, the Dakotas and Wyoming!
@halfingcarvings
You rock!!
Привет, расскажи из какого дерева ты вырезаешь
I got 3 minutes into the video and thought, if I tried to do this, my hand would look like a scene from Child’s Play 😂… love these videos though
LOL thanks man!