From your description, I assume that you have tried and discarded as not helpful the pyrography technique of using heat to transfer the laser printer toner to your surface. If my guesstimation is incorrect, then this technique may be worthy of some investigation / experimentation. Benefit would be no nasty fumes, risk is that you might end up "burning" the surface.
Looks fantastic! I have one I’m wanting to do similar to this but use either leaves or flowers. It may be to thin but may try it just for practice.
Thanks David? Got a maple leaf piece in progress as well.
Looking forward to this one.
Hughie, the second picture is very beautiful. How did you carve those curved lines—did you use a bent chisel? I have a book by Liam Flynn, and he made pieces like that using exactly that kind of tool. You have to calculate everything perfectly. I imagine it must be frustrating when the last curve doesn’t line up and you have to squeeze it in so it doesn't stand out too much.Well the budget may effect the outcome some. But I have a selection files both engineering and rifler files. I generally buy the low end of the market Chinese files as wood kill files. OK if you want real quality the Swiss make needle files at around $200AUD per set 6-8 or so. Plus I have several Dremel's with a wide variety of burrs. carbide,HSS diamond etc. Ideally high speed is the way to go if you're doing small intricate stuff 100,000+ Oh and patience, soft wood has different characteristics to hard wood , the idea is to mess around till you find a species you like . My avatar is fairly common to what I do, Solomon Island Queen Ebony or Tubi around 4" square
Hope you have a quick recovery, Ted. We can't go too long without seeing some of your new work!
