How to season wood for wood carving. (naturally)
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- How to season wood for wood carving, is a guide to the process we use at our workshop to season hardwood. We only use seasoned timber to work in so we need a constant supply of seasoned hardwood. Getting your wood seasoned correctly is essential to make sure your finished work has the best possible chance of standing up to the test of time. We also explain when is the best time of year to cut logs for wood carving, the best way to store logs and how to speed up the process of seasoning wood naturally. Check out our other videos to see alternative methods of sourcing wood. We source many logs from our own trees and have a tree planting project here on site at The Lovespoon Workshop. A simple guide that anyone can follow to season wood naturally.
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Very interesting and informative video
Thank you, hope it comes in useful. It's the method we have used here at our family workshop for nearly 50 years and it has worked well for us.
Great to hear from you as always, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Great video thank you! 24+ months seems like a long time when you’re 21 years old 🤣. But I appreciate the process and looking forward to getting stuck in!
Hi Theolyn, thanks for the positive feedback. It is indeed a slow process but worth the wait. Once you get a system going you have a constant supply of well seasoned hardwood. It could be worse though, if you do sculpture carving you need to wait one year per inch of thickness, so if you are working on a piece that is 20 inches across the diameter, you will be waiting a lot longer.
Thank you for the positive feedback and supporting our RUclips channel. Great to hear from you, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Excellent video, kind of told me all I needed to know but hasn’t resolved an issue I have relevant to the subject. I was searching to buy some seasoned timber and I wanted to carve a portrait head and or small torso attached, as part of a project I’m working on. Ideally I need a 18cm x 18cm x 28cm block, pre seasoned and I wondered if I could buy something like this pre-seasoned, as I don’t really have the time to season it myself. It can be a British wood preferably and one that can be carved nicely. Please let me know of a possible supplier if you know of one. Thank you kindly Andy B
Hi Andy, thanks for getting in touch, glad to hear that the video was useful. In regards to timber stores there are quite a few throughout the country.
Yandles in Somerset are one we have used previously when looking for a specific piece of wood. Tredegar house is a timber store situated here in Wales. More local to ourselves is Timber man near Carmarthen.
It would also be worth getting in contact with local tree surgeons as they often store, season and sell wood. Another option is getting in contact with local carpentry and joinery companies as they might have offcuts suitable depending upon the type of work they do.
Hope you manage to sort out something suitable. Thanks again for getting in touch and supporting our RUclips channel. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas thanks again, this time for the ideas on sourcing a bespoke piece of timber ready to carve
You're welcome, hope you get what you are looking for.
Thanks again, all the best from us all. 👍👍
I really appreciate your teachings. I do have a question. Is there ever a point on some woods being too dry to hold carving detail? I'm curious on a 12 year old box of pre-cut basswood I have and its ' crumbly' detail.
Hi Marcia, great to hear from you. There can be several factors that have an impact on the wood. For example, has it been put under stress in the form of a heat source (central heating or even the sun) this can dry the wood unnaturally and bring out too much moisture. Additionally, other factors can come into play, has water or fungus had an impact on the wood? If it has it can have an impact on the integrity of the wood too. It can create what is referred to as spalting, this can create additional interest in the wood but also make it more difficult to work with. Other thing that can impact on the wood include wood boring insects and the sharpness of the tools you are using. Variations in individual pieces of wood do occur as well.
Having worked with wood that varies in age from 2 years up to 400 years old I have never experienced any significant problems of wood becoming 'too dry'. In fact I find that old wood from furniture is fantastic to work with.
Hope that helps and gives a little more insight. Thank you again for getting in touch. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Can you help me please with a information? Your Hegner scroll saw is with variable speed? I want to buy one but I don't know if is absolut necessary to be with variable speed. It is a big price diference betwen variable and fixed speed. Thank you!!!
Hi, great to hear from you. Our Hegner multicut 2s is not variable speed but it does all of the work we need to do brilliantly. I
personally do not see the need I would have for variable speed on a scroll saw.
Thank you for getting in touch. Hope it's useful. The Hegner multicut 2s single speed scroll saw we use is a fantastic machine, that is in daily use and has done a great job for us for over ten years. This is my own objective opinion of it because I have no association with the company who make it, other than using the machine to do the scroll saw work I do.
Happy scroll sawing, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas Thank you for your replay! You helped me a lot , I will take a Hegner 2S with fixed speed. You inspire me to work with wood!!
@@catasebi8744 thank you for your kind words, that really means a lot to us. Helping others to enjoy working in wood as we do is the basis that we have built our RUclips channel upon. Let me know if you have any other questions, we would be delighted to help. Remember when setting up the Multicut 2s to bolt the machine to a solid base and bolt the base to the floor. It reduces the vibration on the machine.
Thanks again for getting in touch and supporting our RUclips channel. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Hi I'm from the USA iv got some white Oak my question is can you take dry wood and put it in water and it absorb the water back into it
Hi, great to hear from you. If you put seasoned wood into water it will indeed absorb into the pours of the wood. Putting water on the wood during the finishing process raises the grain. What effect leaving the Oak in water for longer periods of time would have on it is not something that I have tried before because it is likely to result in the wood becoming useless for carving. As I said though, not something I have tried personally so you could always try it with a small piece of Oak and see if you achieve the results you are looking for. It might give a weathered look.
Thanks again for supporting our RUclips channel. All the very best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas thank you again brother
You're very welcome, thanks again for supporting our RUclips channel. All the very best from us all. 👍👍