Ball in a Box Pics?

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Willieboy

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Hi guys,

I'm trying to carve a ball in a box. So far, it looks like an egg in a crate. If anyone has pictures of completed ball in a box, I'd sure appreciate seeing them.

Thanks in advance.
 
Thanks for your response and picture. This carving is my first effort and the wook I'm working with is 1 3/4 inches square and about 8 inches long. I think maybe I should have bought a larger piece of wood. Yours appears to be about 3 inches square.

Have you ever carved a chain?
 
http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k...urrent=DSCF0907.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

http://s86.photobucket.com/albums/k...urrent=DSCF0906.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

That one was while the ball was still attached.

That's a call in cage I carved last year. Haven't tried a chain yet, I started as can be seen in the first pic. but totally messed up the initial outline for the chain. I'm working on one right now on a 1X1"X12" piece, I'll post pictures of that later.

It's a lot of fun to see the puzzled look on people's faces when they handle it!

Good luck, Jeff
 
Nice work!
I was just thinking it would be cool to stain the ball and the box different colors. That would really mess with peoples' heads.

<How did you get that ball in there?> :rolleyes:
 
Wow great pics! I am just getting started on whittling and was wondering if you did those with just a knife like a case, opinel, SAK or you also have special carving tools? I don't mean to hijack the thread just would like to know your choice of tools. Thank you.
 
Lurp, Are you a former LURP? Vietnam?

I bought a little set of carving knives at Michael's along with my wood, that are essentially little chisels. I have also used an Old Timer stockman pattern when I could. As I said earlier, the piece of wood I'm working on is pretty small so my tools must be small too.

Boy, those pics are very helpful. It sure is tough getting the ball carved. Yesterday, mine looked like an egg. Today, it looks like a wheel from the Flintstones show. Tomorrow, maybe I'll have a boob. Hmmm. If I achieve that, maybe I'll stop.

When carving your projects guys, have you eschewed the use of power tools like a Dremel tool?
 
Lurp, Are you a former LURP? Vietnam?
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That would be LRRP , not LURP :) (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol)


How in the hell did you guys do those balls in a cage ? I mean I'm no luddite but I cannot grasp how you could do that with a pocket knife....
Way cool :thumbup:
 
I knew "LURP" was inconsistent with Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol. However, I've seen Lurp used and often as LRRP to denote the same thing. I guess a lot of folks just spell it the way it sounds. A guy used to work with was did that in Vietnam and he used LRP. Not to put too fine a point on it, if I'm not mistaken, the Marines used an acronym different that the Army to describe the same thing. What do you suppose a lurp is? Got me wondering now.
 
Hey Rebel, I can't speak for the others but my plan to to cut away everything that doesn't look like a ball. Seriously, for me so far, it's been quite a challenge. Cutting across the grain is a bitch and I don't want to use any power tools. I certainly congratulate those who have been successful.
 
Yeah, the opinel in that picture was only used for taking away larger amounts of wood. I use an exacto knife set for all the detail work, and most of the wood removal. I just liked to see what the opinel could do. If it were a larger project, I'd use the opinel in a heartbeat because it cuts even better than new exacto blades. However, it's too big and unwieldly for the smaller projects. I might cut the blade down a few inches...

Anyway, hope that helps.

Jeff
 
Haha. No i'm no LRRP but I sure do love to read about MACVSOG and LRRP and has been an intrest of mine for a while. I dont know what made me choose the name Lurp but I just decided to make a name that spells like LRRP sounds a couple of years ago on another forum and it just stuck for most of my user names.

I'll have to pick up some carving tools this weekend because all I have been using is a small 3 bladed Boker which gets the job done but is a real pain when it comes to small details. Thank you.
 
You can cheat at making these by using a chisel, only problem is it's really easy to slip when making the smaller boxes, be careful trust me I had to get stitches cause of it :D :thumbup:
 
Thats really cool. Is it easy to carve one of these? Any website that has some info? I would like to try one
 
JeffLesniak said:
Yeah, the opinel in that picture was only used for taking away larger amounts of wood. I use an exacto knife set for all the detail work, and most of the wood removal. I just liked to see what the opinel could do. If it were a larger project, I'd use the opinel in a heartbeat because it cuts even better than new exacto blades. However, it's too big and unwieldly for the smaller projects. I might cut the blade down a few inches...

Anyway, hope that helps.

Jeff
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I'm currently working on taking down a #8 by an inch or so and making it a wharncliffe. I'll let you know how it preforms when I do.
 
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