How to Carve a Cube in Relief | Wood Carving for Beginners | Easy Carving Projects with Schaaf Tools

In this video you will learn how to carve a cube in relief. This is an exciting tutorial, because beginner woodcarvers will be able to carve all sorts of things - dice, buildings and more - with the skills learned from this woodcarving tutorial. Follow along with professional relief carver Randall 'Madcarver' Stoner.
Tools used:
Schaaf Tools 12-pc Foundation Set - Starter Wood Carving Set for Beginners
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Transfer your artwork to your carving surface.
- Secure your artwork to the wood block, then trace your pattern with a metal stylus (or pencil if you are using transfer paper)
- Pencil in your design directly onto the wooden block
- Save the paper with your artwork, you'll need it again later
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- Using your Skew Chisel, outline your design, just to the outside of your pencil lines
- Remember, only outline the outer lines of the cube
- This creates your initial stop cut
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Now we will use the 5-8mm gouge to create depth around your design
- Carve away the outside areas to raise the cube above its background
- Continue to use your skew chisel to create deeper stop cuts as you take away more and more of the surrounding wood
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- You should be left with a deep, good-sized trough around your design
- Now we can start to form the Cube
- As you begin to angle the sides, the artwork for the top is going to disappear, and you'll need to redraw it on
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- You should now have a depth at one corner that is slightly lower than the depth at the corner of the other edge
- Even this out with your 5-8mm gouge
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- Draw back in the line of the top edge of your cube that has been carved away
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- Begin to think about the perspective of your cube
- Now you will carve the top panel
- Draw in the artwork of the top edges again
- Carve in the angle with your 5-8mm woodcarving gouge
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Put the finishing touches on your cube
- When you're done, the last step is to cut off a little bit into the cube on its sides to give it more shadow
- Carve a small diagonal on the bottom of the cube as well

[@stephenwhittier6439]

Thanks ! 👍

[@ImeldaFagin]

It was helpful that you showed the process.

[@user-sq3lh3tc3u]

👍👍👍

[@abdalazizguiliana328]

Hy what is the type of the wood

[@ozzie8821]

I really want to get good at this whatever it takes, I’m intimidated by the techniques in sharpening tho, I’ve had bad luck in that, suggestions plz

[@qutub-ul-walikhan2459]

Dear brother is softness or certain types of woods required for carving ?

[@MrMNRichardWright]

I’m learning lots of technique from these videos. What should we be doing to keep the tools sharp?

[@SchaafTools]

If you're tools are already sharpened, get yourself a strop to keep them sharp!

[@MrMNRichardWright]

@@SchaafTools that might be good to show in the videos. Or at least mention to remind people that these things need to be maintained.

[@SchaafTools]

@@MrMNRichardWright That's the next video we're working on!

[@SchaafTools]

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[@alickdunbar]

AS A BEGINNER HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO DO THIS JUST LIKE YOU HAVE DONE LET ME KNOW PLEASE THANKS

[@daveproctor6389]

I have been told to clamp the wood and have 2 hands on the gouge.is your way safer?

[@elipearlman8549]

From Randall: "The technique is important and meant to achieve the shaping wanted but in a way that keeps the user safe. I use what I have coined the "dominant / non-dominant hand" method. You cannot hurt yourself or anyone around you with it's use.
My method has both hands on the chisel at all times as they provide power/thrust (dominant hand) & steering/guidance (non-dominant hand).
As for clamping, I never clamp anything unless I am glueing blocks together. My rubber mat holds the work in place which negates the need to ever clamp."

[@elipearlman8549]

Hope that helps!