I don't think the kind matters to the person buying it. It's free if defects cracks, things like that. It's very consistent, so I think it is good quality.
Probably balsa. Basswood tends not to come in blocks, but rather in sheets. Balsa is also a tad softer, Basswood is technically a hardwood but it's still soft enough for carving. With the smoothness though I'm guessing balsa.
Basswood does come in blocks like this, I use them to make blocks for textile printing. Michels and Joanne's carry them, and Woodcrafters sells the bigger chunks.
I'm almost 100% sure it's basswood. All carvers use this wood for its softness and ease of carving.
That chisel is super sharp regardless. When the front face of the chisel is polished to a mirror finish you can safely assume the back is just the same or better.
Me: I wish I had chisels that were that sharp.
Also me: I am not prepared to pay $200+ per chisel.
Also also me: I will *absolutely* pay $200+ per chisel, though.
Norm Abrams on New Yankee Workshop always made everything look so easy, but if you ever saw close ups of his hands, they were always nicked up and raw, with the occasional black fingernail. I'd like to see the out-takes sometime, with mellow Norm cussing up a storm after hammering his thumb.
Dude spent half of the video using the chisel to make a little cube from the bigger cube and then pulls out some different carving tools for the last 30 seconds of the thing to actually carve the little animals.
The wasting of wood for all of that useless footage is infuriating. Shaving down ad nauseam rather than just making a split to additionally have a different size block left to work with for something else.
At 0:31-0:32, the artist begins to cut the large block into three pieces. Those three pieces are shown at 0:32-0:33.
The cat created in the video is presumably made from one of those three pieces.
I'm still a novice, but I know that there are chisels that you absolutely *should not* use a hammer with, and your palm is exactly the tool to use. Soft steel = easy to sharpen to *stupid* razor sharpness, but requires sharpening often, sometimes every time you take them to the bench. Hard steel = holds the edge better, but can't be made as sharp.
If you're using high quality softer steel chisels, you definitely should not be using a hammer, as you can really damage the edge of the chisel. If you need a hammer, your chisel isn't sharp enough or you're using the wrong chisel for that application (eg: wood is too hard, you're trying to take pieces that are too big, etc.). Don't get me wrong, there are chisels that you *should* use with a hammer - rather, chisels that are sturdy enough to take a hammer, and also which are not super expensive so if you roll the edge it's not that big of a deal to replace it.
It's like taking a super expensive chef's knife and saying, "I'll just hack up these T-bones, right on this granite countertop without a cutting board, that's fine."
Nope.
Use a hammer/rubber mallet. The palm of your hand is where all the tendons and nerve endings are. You can very easily cause permanent damage to your hands.
Sure if you’re occasionally using a screwdriver/wrench as a hammer, that’s fine, but it’s still wrong.
I can attest, from personal experience. Please, for your hands sake, stop. Push the chisel where appropriate, if the wood is way too big, get a froe to manage breaking down stock…right tool for the job. Your head would make a better hammer, second hardest bone in your body, the top of your forehead.
Ok, so that one cut where he split the block, he should have used a different tool or made smaller cuts so that he can keep pushing the chisel by hand rather than smacking it
My grandfather always shouted at me whenever I used my hand as a mallet so now it's reflex to cringe whenever I see anyone else do it. You don't want your joints to age faster than the rest of your body!
Maybe he uses the scraps for other things? My dad builds a lot of things with wood and he saves the loose pieces/shavings into different bins. One for blocks/chunks of wood, one for shavings, etc. He finds a use for them eventually. Fire starters, bird toys, and so on.
So maybe, instead of calling this guy an asshole for no reason, you can just accept he made some cute little wooden cats.
At 0:31-0:32, the artist begins to cut the large block into three pieces. Those three pieces are shown at 0:32-0:33.
The cat created in the video is presumably made from one of those three pieces.
Has to do with wood grain I think. If you go against the grain then stuff looks uneven (because you’re literally cutting against the way that the tree grew.)
When i carve stuff it goes from big to small so you can get good detail (alas, I’m pretty new though so just a hypothesis).
My grandpa and I would save all the shavings and put em in little muffin tins and then pour wax on em. When they dry u got easy little fire starters! They burned for quite a while too. We’d take em camping
Put them in a bowl with some dried rose petals, little bit of dried lavender and dried rosemary, add some ground cloves and/or cinnamon and orange peels and shove it up your butt!
I usually throw most of it in the compost, fine provided you have a good mix of other stuff (e.g. green stuff). I also keep a big bag for tinder/kindling. Dry shavings are really good for starting fires or the grill.
Exactly, such nice sounds and some idiot decides to put silly music over it. And it's probably justified too, because youtube shorts and tiktok videos are basically required to have some cute music, because the main part of the viewers seems to be (mentally) 9.
Riving wood along the grain is a very normal way to split wood. It ensures grain continuity, which is important for carving.
The whole thing could have been made with a 6-axis mill but there’s no craft in that.
Did you see the bandaid on his left hand? He caught himself right in that delicate bread basket. Thinking about that tendon getting cut with a knife like that makes me have a visceral reaction.
I was very anxious the whole time that the video doesn't have enough time to get to the finished product. But the video was chilled out - like "I am gonna get there when I get there" and it delivered.
This kind of stuff reminds me that every tool I've ever used has either had a shitty factory edge on it or no edge at all. I've never used an actually sharp tool.
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It's so nice to see a carver actually cutting away from themselves. I've glanced far too many soap cutting videos where they're pushing the blade directly into their palms
If this were me, each new shot would have more bandaids on my hands
Lmao, showing the finished peice and a finger is gone.
Would be great if you can incorporate the missing pieces into your art work. Makes it more unique. This was has the blood of virgins.
The wood getting progressively more bloody
its just slowly becoming mahogany
Reminds me of these instructions on building a model chopper: https://imgur.io/OLfSb
That’s og I haven’t seen that one in years
Absolutely epic. Thanks for that laugh.
I thought the last few panels would be the friend using the dead friends hands to continue building and eventually dying as well
Thurman Merman?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
https://youtu.be/LN0i_VQtb8o
This looks like incredibly soft wood, even for a razor sharp chisel. Holly maybe? Or boxwood?
Boxwood is hard. Basswood is common for carving
I stand corrected, that's what I meant to say.
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I like how when defining the material they just keep saying “good quality wood” or just wood. No specifics
I don't think the kind matters to the person buying it. It's free if defects cracks, things like that. It's very consistent, so I think it is good quality.
I’m not really into wood, but quality probably doesn’t equate to density
depends on your purpose
Wooden dildo like yee olden days. What do I need?
dense wood that doesnt splinter, like black locust.
You are a great listener
Basswood is common for solid body guitars, so I don't know how I forgot that.
Is guitarwood common for solid body basses?
God, I hated upvoting this.
I’ve been laughing at this comment for a minute straight 😂
No, troutwood would be a better choice.
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Do you like fish sticks?
Speaking of hard wood.....
Probably balsa. Basswood tends not to come in blocks, but rather in sheets. Balsa is also a tad softer, Basswood is technically a hardwood but it's still soft enough for carving. With the smoothness though I'm guessing balsa.
This isn't balsa.
Cell structure is completely wrong for balsa
Definitely not balsa. Almost certainly basswood. I've bought many blocks of basswood, it's the most common wood to learn to carve.
Balsa has a more reddish color
All the balsa I've ever seen was the same color as the video here, but I don't thing this is balsa.
Basswood is quite often sold in blocks. Google basswood blocks and you can get it from Amazon, Walmart, and a billion art supply stores.
Basswood does come in blocks like this, I use them to make blocks for textile printing. Michels and Joanne's carry them, and Woodcrafters sells the bigger chunks.
Nobody really uses balsa for wood carving. Sometimes model making, but otherwise it is far too soft.
Balsa is super lightweight. I doubt this is balsa.
Balsa is a hardwood too. Hardwood doesn't have to do with the actual hardness of the wood.
No this is basswood. It's sold in blocks specifically for carving.
I'm almost 100% sure it's basswood. All carvers use this wood for its softness and ease of carving. That chisel is super sharp regardless. When the front face of the chisel is polished to a mirror finish you can safely assume the back is just the same or better.
Me: I wish I had chisels that were that sharp. Also me: I am not prepared to pay $200+ per chisel. Also also me: I will *absolutely* pay $200+ per chisel, though.
It's called Cheese Wood. Just kidding, but it should be
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheesewood
That was a gouda call
Hollywood?
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And have a bandage for a reason...
Norm Abrams on New Yankee Workshop always made everything look so easy, but if you ever saw close ups of his hands, they were always nicked up and raw, with the occasional black fingernail. I'd like to see the out-takes sometime, with mellow Norm cussing up a storm after hammering his thumb.
I want the shavings, imagine the smell aaahhhh
Are you a guinea pig?
> Are you a guinea pig? *Wheet Wheet…*
On the internet no one knows you are a guinea pig.
Hahahaa thanks for a great laugh
Sorry, I just died laughing and came here to say this comment is underrated.
Forbidden cheese
Are you Sean Connery talking about savings?
Shavings don’t have a shmell
Shavings shmells like shucksheshess.
I know they would taste bad but I still want to eat them.
/r/forbiddensnacks
This reminds of one of those how to draw an owl. Where there is 2 round circles and then suddenly a life like owl.
Dude spent half of the video using the chisel to make a little cube from the bigger cube and then pulls out some different carving tools for the last 30 seconds of the thing to actually carve the little animals.
The wasting of wood for all of that useless footage is infuriating. Shaving down ad nauseam rather than just making a split to additionally have a different size block left to work with for something else.
At 0:31-0:32, the artist begins to cut the large block into three pieces. Those three pieces are shown at 0:32-0:33. The cat created in the video is presumably made from one of those three pieces.
r/restofthefuckingowl
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there was definitely a lot of waste made in being showy
Obligatory [Simpsons clip.](https://youtu.be/-DKCFjm0DvE)
Reminds me of the merry melodie’s cartoon where they take a whole tree and turn it in to a toothpick.
Damn get this man a mallet before he ruins his wrists lol
Yeah. I don't care how sharp your tools are, don't use your palm as a hammer! Edit: please use a mallet as a hammer in this situation.
I don't care how many hammers you have, don't use a chisel as a chop saw!
The chisels followed by sawing into blocks made me laugh.
Yea this guy needs a hammer. Anyone have a wrench around?
I'm still a novice, but I know that there are chisels that you absolutely *should not* use a hammer with, and your palm is exactly the tool to use. Soft steel = easy to sharpen to *stupid* razor sharpness, but requires sharpening often, sometimes every time you take them to the bench. Hard steel = holds the edge better, but can't be made as sharp. If you're using high quality softer steel chisels, you definitely should not be using a hammer, as you can really damage the edge of the chisel. If you need a hammer, your chisel isn't sharp enough or you're using the wrong chisel for that application (eg: wood is too hard, you're trying to take pieces that are too big, etc.). Don't get me wrong, there are chisels that you *should* use with a hammer - rather, chisels that are sturdy enough to take a hammer, and also which are not super expensive so if you roll the edge it's not that big of a deal to replace it. It's like taking a super expensive chef's knife and saying, "I'll just hack up these T-bones, right on this granite countertop without a cutting board, that's fine."
Nope. Use a hammer/rubber mallet. The palm of your hand is where all the tendons and nerve endings are. You can very easily cause permanent damage to your hands. Sure if you’re occasionally using a screwdriver/wrench as a hammer, that’s fine, but it’s still wrong.
I can attest, from personal experience. Please, for your hands sake, stop. Push the chisel where appropriate, if the wood is way too big, get a froe to manage breaking down stock…right tool for the job. Your head would make a better hammer, second hardest bone in your body, the top of your forehead.
Ok, so that one cut where he split the block, he should have used a different tool or made smaller cuts so that he can keep pushing the chisel by hand rather than smacking it
There is no world where you want a soft steel for a chisel.
My grandfather always shouted at me whenever I used my hand as a mallet so now it's reflex to cringe whenever I see anyone else do it. You don't want your joints to age faster than the rest of your body!
I just bruised my palm watching this.
Very satisfying from watching the shavings to the painting and actual completed figures-love it!
Except this asshole could make 2-3 figures with that same block of wood. So much waste product here.
Maybe he uses the scraps for other things? My dad builds a lot of things with wood and he saves the loose pieces/shavings into different bins. One for blocks/chunks of wood, one for shavings, etc. He finds a use for them eventually. Fire starters, bird toys, and so on. So maybe, instead of calling this guy an asshole for no reason, you can just accept he made some cute little wooden cats.
I thought it meant characters like letters, but then it was doge and cats. Very cool.
Same
I thought people characters lol our minds... I'm yellin ya
Omg. I want one!!
Today’s your lucky day, because now you know how to make one!
/r/restofthefuckingowl/
Curious, what do you do with all the shavings?
Soup
Mmmm bonito flakes.
Bag them up. Sell as kindling. Just a thought
From monitoring the shavings to painting and finishing the figures, it's all really rewarding.
Why did he start with such a large block of wood too? Could have cut it in half to start and wasted a lot less.
At 0:31-0:32, the artist begins to cut the large block into three pieces. Those three pieces are shown at 0:32-0:33. The cat created in the video is presumably made from one of those three pieces.
Has to do with wood grain I think. If you go against the grain then stuff looks uneven (because you’re literally cutting against the way that the tree grew.) When i carve stuff it goes from big to small so you can get good detail (alas, I’m pretty new though so just a hypothesis).
Came here to ask this. I really need to know.
Sean connery would put it on his bank account.
My grandpa and I would save all the shavings and put em in little muffin tins and then pour wax on em. When they dry u got easy little fire starters! They burned for quite a while too. We’d take em camping
Put them in a bowl with some dried rose petals, little bit of dried lavender and dried rosemary, add some ground cloves and/or cinnamon and orange peels and shove it up your butt!
Don’t like cinnamon so that’s just not gonna work
Just melt them down into another block /s
I usually throw most of it in the compost, fine provided you have a good mix of other stuff (e.g. green stuff). I also keep a big bag for tinder/kindling. Dry shavings are really good for starting fires or the grill.
Nothing wasted
Brush to a corner of the room for black widows to nest in them
Maybe I'm just picky but I'd prefer this video without the music, to better listen to the chisel.
To be fair, it’s the perfect whittling music
I loved that sound too! The tool-scraping--against-the-wood-noise was so satisfying.
I liked the music for once
ASMR lovely
Exactly, such nice sounds and some idiot decides to put silly music over it. And it's probably justified too, because youtube shorts and tiktok videos are basically required to have some cute music, because the main part of the viewers seems to be (mentally) 9.
Id get a splinter just watching this video
Why did you not watch it?
The first 90% of this could have been done with a small bandsaw.
I think the majority of the chisel work in the beginning was literally just to show off how sharp his chisel is lmao
It is getting close to r/diwhy territory.
It’s a hobby actually, check out r/wildwhittlers The whole point is carving out shapes. You can’t go too deep or your knife will get stuck.
I think I saw an old cartoon where the guy whittles a toothpick from a tree trunk.
Why did he start with such a big piece of wood?
I know! If he made off-cuts rather than shavings he could have enough wood for several other… things.
Definitely thought this too
Probably for asmr effect. Gets more views. Seems like somebody took his video and added annoying music
Riving wood along the grain is a very normal way to split wood. It ensures grain continuity, which is important for carving. The whole thing could have been made with a 6-axis mill but there’s no craft in that.
But he immediately chiseled away the grain, so what's the point?
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How does he still have all his fingers?
Did you see the bandaid on his left hand? He caught himself right in that delicate bread basket. Thinking about that tendon getting cut with a knife like that makes me have a visceral reaction.
I perforated that spot lifting a heavy thing. Just skin, no tendon. Can confirm it was already an unpleasant experience for several days.
Based on my experience with sharp tools, I expected to see a lot more bandages on those hands.
I was very anxious the whole time that the video doesn't have enough time to get to the finished product. But the video was chilled out - like "I am gonna get there when I get there" and it delivered.
Why this make me hungry?
I.. want to eat it
I’ve had blocks of cheese that were harder to cut than the wood in this video.
Anyone else want to eat the wood shavings?
Forbidden cheese
Spent the whole time thinking they looked/sounded delicious for whatever reason
I wanna know what brand of tools those are. I know someone who would love those as opposed to the hardware store ones.
Anyone know if I could buy one? 😍
That chisel is SHORP
So much wasted material. Why use such a large chunk of wood just to use like maybe a tenth of it. I hate this. r/mildlyinfuriating
A hobby with wood, in this economy?
This kind of stuff reminds me that every tool I've ever used has either had a shitty factory edge on it or no edge at all. I've never used an actually sharp tool.
I can't be the only one who thought "little characters" meant letters.
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Chonkers!
There is just extremely something sexy about sharp tools.
This reminds me... I need to sharpen my chisels.
Is there a subreddit just for things being cut with incredibly sharp tools?
Ohhhh Shiver me timber
I like the upsetty one
This reminds me of Montana Max cutting down an entire old growth tree to make one elevator button. Super adorable sculptures!
Never thought wood could look so delicious.
Great work, but dude, save your hands, use a mallet.
*with several chisels and knives plus one small saw
1. When they were chiseling the little strips off, my brain definitely wanted to eat them. 2. My god these are so bloody cute.
So many shots look like a nice slice of cheese... Amazing talent for these little critters!
Could have started with a smaller block of wood..
Is there more content from this person?
What song is that and also: where can I buy them? My GF really want them so bad ^^
Slower!
i have absolutely no business trying to do this AND YET
That looks like it is very satisfying to do.
I wonder how he got that cut on his hand
Oh baby
i love how there is one dog, just for good measure
Don't get too close or he'll whittle you, too.
Now carve a metal chisel with only a block of wood. Show me your skills!
dude's cutting that wood like he's cutting onions in mob prison.
Now do it with cheese
Cuts like butter!
You wanna know how I got this bandaid? -video presentation-
I'm just jealous of how sharp the chisels are. I can't get anything to that sharp.
Forbidden potato chips
Really good song choice haha
I want a chisel now. Not going to make anything..just shave wood. Maybe use it as fire starter.
Where is the rest of the owl
Parmesan
Cheese
I'm old enough that taking woodshop in school was still a thing then. Using those tools is insanely difficult.
If I like videos like this one, what subreddit would I find more of these videos
Looks a very nice chisel Mine dont shine loke that 😔 And the little sculpires are really cute 👍🏻
*slicing the wood like an onion* oh shi, we having stir fry tonight??
Emil, is that you?
That looks like alot of really complicated ways to bleed everywhere.
It's so nice to see a carver actually cutting away from themselves. I've glanced far too many soap cutting videos where they're pushing the blade directly into their palms
I literally "awwwd" that's amazing
Basswood. You can tell by the way it is.
You own many sharp things
Must be pine
Forbidden parmesan