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Jade Carving
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[url]http://www.petridish.net/pics/24947/jl01.jpg[/url]
[url]http://www.petridish.net/pics/24947/jl04.jpg[/url]
My first real attempt at Jade Carving.
I've carved a little soapstone in high school, a little sandstone in college, but never something like jade.
It's a hard, HARD stone. I started with a 4" angle grinder with a diamond wheel and thats the only thing that shifted it with any sort of rapidity and even then, it almost tore and chipped it off the block more than carved it.
I then moved onto some diamond coated dremel burrs and then it was down to making super fine dust and barely scratching it. It's hardness is not all curse, it's a small blessing for a guy like me who has trouble slowing down long enough for the hands to make what my mind sees. Being so hard, I have to take off less with each pass, with each flick of the tool, which means I'm not trapped by the 'only subtractive' nature of carving.
I am actually taking away all the parts of the stone which aren't the lizard and very very little of the parts that are.
First pic is sharp and tidy. second isn't, my apologies, its mostly just a chroniciling image. I used a carborundum cutoff wheel which goes through high speed, high carbon steel very quickly... all it did on this lil guy was burnish and polish it. That was the intention, but it gives you another indication of how hard this stone is. If you cut it into very thin sheets, it actually rings like crystal glass.
Anyways, the actual lizard is a sort of amalgam of all the hundreds of lizards I've caught throughout my life, but mostly, blue tougues and bearded dragons, both of which you can see elements of. I don't plan my work, I just do what Michaelangelo did and cut away all that isn't the sculpture. Incidentally, I make aboslutely no claim to his ability, merely his prescribed method of working.
[url]http://www.petridish.net/pics/24947/jl04.jpg[/url]
My first real attempt at Jade Carving.
I've carved a little soapstone in high school, a little sandstone in college, but never something like jade.
It's a hard, HARD stone. I started with a 4" angle grinder with a diamond wheel and thats the only thing that shifted it with any sort of rapidity and even then, it almost tore and chipped it off the block more than carved it.
I then moved onto some diamond coated dremel burrs and then it was down to making super fine dust and barely scratching it. It's hardness is not all curse, it's a small blessing for a guy like me who has trouble slowing down long enough for the hands to make what my mind sees. Being so hard, I have to take off less with each pass, with each flick of the tool, which means I'm not trapped by the 'only subtractive' nature of carving.
I am actually taking away all the parts of the stone which aren't the lizard and very very little of the parts that are.
First pic is sharp and tidy. second isn't, my apologies, its mostly just a chroniciling image. I used a carborundum cutoff wheel which goes through high speed, high carbon steel very quickly... all it did on this lil guy was burnish and polish it. That was the intention, but it gives you another indication of how hard this stone is. If you cut it into very thin sheets, it actually rings like crystal glass.
Anyways, the actual lizard is a sort of amalgam of all the hundreds of lizards I've caught throughout my life, but mostly, blue tougues and bearded dragons, both of which you can see elements of. I don't plan my work, I just do what Michaelangelo did and cut away all that isn't the sculpture. Incidentally, I make aboslutely no claim to his ability, merely his prescribed method of working.
Comments
I'm always insanely jealous of people who have artistic ability. :)
And Biggles: Dremel tools most likely..
[B]I agree, great work!
I'm always insanely jealous of people who have artistic ability. :) [/B][/QUOTE]
i agree, on both points! Nice work :D
why do you ask ?
I would assume you have a jadeite elephant, Jadeite being the very close cousin to true Jade. It is as you correctly assume, passed off as Jade frequently.
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I want one.
:p