{"id":175,"date":"2016-02-23T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/?p=175"},"modified":"2016-02-23T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:52:08","slug":"the-joy-of-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/2016\/02\/23\/the-joy-of-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am realizing that carving has phases for me. I start of really reluctant to dig in. It seems impossible that the large chunk of wood could ever be what I want it to, so I’d rather go play the fiddle thanks. After I’ve done some work, I move on to disgust. The initial wood removal is ugly and I want to mess with it even less. That’s basically the state I left the top at yesterday in that photo. Then something magical happens. There’s a moment when I can just faintly see the form begin to emerge, and then the tide turns. Instead of not wanting to look at the block of wood, I can’t stop thinking about it and how great it’s going to be to draw that shape out. I hit that moment today when one corner began to emerge.<\/p>\n

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Look at that corner peeking out!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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And a closer view after I switched to the gouge<\/p>\n

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The sound of the roughing gouge cutting cross grain like that makes a mesmerizing sound. It’s something between a cat purring and a zipper slowly opening. But you don’t have puzzle that out because I recorded it for you:<\/p>\n

I am realizing that carving has phases for me. I start of really reluctant to dig in. It seems impossible that the large chunk of wood could ever be what I want it to, so I’d rather go play the fiddle thanks. After I’ve done some work, I move on to disgust. The initial wood … Continue reading “The Joy of Carving”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietglow.com\/fiddlenumberone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}