How to Make Wooden Gifts: Cut & Carve Cute Little Mushrooms

In this blog post we are going to teach you a lot of techniques for sharpening wooden gifts. We'll continue with the example of the cute mushroom wooden figurine from the previous post.

In the previous post we have pretty much sharpened the mushroom tip, this time we will make another small adjustment or change the position of the mushroom umbrella according to the above, and then we notice that two parts of the mushroom are cocked up, we can slightly draw the auxiliary lines with a pencil. We want it to be cocked this high first and shorter on the other side.

After drawing the auxiliary line, you realize it's a sloping line, right? We just need to draw it roughly and then we can cut down, we should be very careful when cutting and leave room for error.

Now we've identified the second problem, which is the end face. We are now cutting the end face, it's not the same as the direction we were going with the grain, it's cutting across the grain, and you can obviously feel the resistance of the knife getting bigger because it's getting denser, which is quite normal.

Don't be in too much of a hurry in this step, make thin cuts, flatten the bottom, and slowly make it look the way you want it to.

Be careful with your hands every time you cut, especially when you take back your hands, you can see that we wear gloves throughout the whole process of cutting wooden gifts, but still don't dare to let the knife make direct contact with your thumb.

Flatten the point below, including some of the marks left behind when you used the sentence, and smooth it out.

Many problems encountered in the process of cutting may also be encountered by everyone, encounter problems we can solve the problem accordingly.

Earlier mentioned many of the theoretical knowledge of carving wooden gifts, you can find a book to learn, but the experience is the book will not give you. These real encountered small problems will not be written in the book.

We can see that the sides of the front of the mushroom are warped, but still not warped enough. What is the exact slope to be warped up? We can look at the original picture again, the highest point of the cocking is basically half of the mushroom umbrella and a little bit up, well, let's mark it a little bit, we can mark the highest place of the mushroom umbrella, from the highest place to half of the position of the mushroom umbrella inward, the upper umbrella convex slightly tilted, it is not vertically downward, it is to one side of the tilt.

But look, now we're not sure exactly where it is, it's the highest point and the rest of it is going to be tucked inwards. Let's look at the plan, the top of the mushroom is not right in the center, we'll just draw a circle roughly off to the side.

Next, take your knife, take the drawn auxiliary line as a guide to close in, these places can be cut off, this stage you just boldly cut, even if you cut bad can start again, do not be particularly timid and cautious, cut bad is not a big deal. Bold and serious at the same time, while chipping and observing.