I managed to sneak in a few hours of work after my kids went to sleep. I started by filing and sanding around half of the top rectangles just to see how everything was looking so far.
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Then, I switched over to the safe end cylinder bit in the previous post and started really defining the borders and overlaps. This sets everything up so that you can start adding a lot of relief.
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Following this, I switched my bit to a ball nose bit (pictured in a previous post), and started carving away material. This is where the relief really begins to take shape. The exterior is starting to feel very nice in the hands.
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The next step will be to continue carving away material in the two remaining rows. Then, I will go over the bowl and refine the borders/overlaps as needed with carving chisels. After that, I will smooth the contours with riffler files, and then begin sanding. Following the sanding, I will start the next phase of the pyrography work. The bowl still looks rough, but is slowly getting there. A lot of work left to do!