First carved Platters

[Larry Pickering]

Larry, those are beautiful plates. I've never tried using my Harbor Freight Air Descaler. Can you use control it in those tight, small spaces around the fish or did you texture first and then carve the fish?

Cheryl, I outlined with my Proxxon carver, with a v-gouge. The descaler I modified buy cutting off some off the "needles" leaving four, then I sharpened them to a point, and hold them together, as I stipple. Then I use one of the cut off needles to get into the tight spaces, When I first tried the descaler, it did not leave a good pattern, it was clunky and hard to control, careful off the cut off barbs, they bite! Too answer your question, I carve, then texture

[Harvey Ghesser]

Wish I could carve like that...