Jade Carvers » Hand carved jade Tendril http://jade-carvers.com Carving Jade, Jade Sculpture, Jade Art & Hard Stone Sculpture Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:20:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Inanga Tendril http://jade-carvers.com/2008/04/inanga-tendril/ http://jade-carvers.com/2008/04/inanga-tendril/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:53:48 +0000 Donn http://jade-carvers.com/?p=14 PROGRESSION ILLUSTRATING THE HAND CARVING OF A JADE TENDRIL

Drawn up

From a cored out disc to the initial grinding…. and the start of hand tooling with an electric micro-motor hand piece.

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1 Inanga Tendril

Drawn up

2 Inanga Tendril

From a cored out disc to the initial grinding…. and the start of hand tooling with an electric micro-motor hand piece.

3 Inanga Tendril

4 Inanga Tendril

5 Inanga Tendril

6 Inanga Tendril

Halfway there and into hand finishing…

7 Inanga Tendril

8 Inanga Tendril

There is a small, suspension hole concealed under the tendril

to prevent the cord from slipping along the tapering tendril causing the piece to hang out of balance.

finished Inanga Tendril

FINISHED

oblique Inanga Tendril


 

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