Wood Magazine 52 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1992-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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finer detail, if necessary. The level of detail put into a blank depends on who's going to be using the completed roughout—an amateur or a professional.

"Professional carvers don't like a blank that's cut too close; they want to have enough room to give each carving some personality," Ron comments. "Roughouts for general sale are usually cut closer to the finished carving."

A pair of hydraulically operated high-speed duplicating lathes in

the shop came from the shoemak-ing industry, where they carved shoe lasts. Ron has carved shoe trees, decoy bodies, and rolling pins, among other things, on the Italian-made machines.

A legacy of their shoemaking origins, they can create proportionally enlarged or reduced copies of three-dimensional patterns. So, a small carving pattern can be made quickly into something much bigger—just like the roughout business itself.

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