very interesting video, clear an concise narration

@MattCarves

16 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it! Cheers Dave. 👍

Nice video Matt

@MattCarves

17 күн бұрын

Thanks Dean 👍

👌👌Looks awesome Matt ❤you did it despite being a hard wood you put a lot of time in this and the final result - beautiful!! 🙏thank you 😊

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Yes I got there in the end. Thank-you for your kind comments. 😊😊😊

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom! It has helped me a lot to learn how to get started in the world of carving.🎉

@MattCarves

5 ай бұрын

No problem. Happy that you are finding the videos useful

Thank you for such a wonderful video!! You really do amazing work,cant wait till i get there to that point!!

@MattCarves

5 ай бұрын

Cheers, Larry. It's all just practice and patience. 👍

Wow I can see the time difference. You persevere

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was a long time 🙂

Keep cool till after school

@MattCarves

4 ай бұрын

Cheers 👍

Thanks monthly coffees.❤

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Thank you John. It's much appreciated.

Awesome. Am going to try. Thanks

@MattCarves

6 ай бұрын

Cheers. 👍

Great commentary, much appreciated . New subscriber .👍🇬🇧

@MattCarves

8 ай бұрын

Cheers and welcome to the channel 👍

This is amazing

@MattCarves

8 ай бұрын

Thank-you 👍

SHOW 👏 👏 👏

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

👍🍻

Will look good when finished with tight grain

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Cheers Paul 🍻

This reminds me alot of a wood species found in my neck of the woods. We call it ironwood, or hop hornbeam. Ostrya virginiana is the real name. Its hard to work with if it gets a chance to dry out for sure. Green work isn't as bad, but that's another type of carving. It is so full of resin and silicates that it dulls tools fast. Its easy to forget that New Zealand is an island, and has a limited variety of tree species. It sure looks nice in pictures, though.

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Cheers William. Yes I have heard of that ironwood. 👍

@danielmilliken8903

4 ай бұрын

I’m new here guys but needed to know does green wood have any draw backs ? Also what’s the best green wood to carve ?

@williamfawkes8379

4 ай бұрын

@danielmilliken8903 hard woods carve much easier when they are green. The drawback to green wood, is that it will quickly gum up almost any dremel bit. The kutzall extreme burrs and the like are still able to do good work though. Most green wood carving would be done with knife or chisel, or a lathe. So if you want to power carve, stick to dried wood. Good luck.

very great

@MattCarves

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

Cool wood spirit and like how he turned out. Can you repeat what type of wood that you prefer to power carve? I think you mentioned a wood from California?

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Cheers. It's Macrocarpa, it might be called something else over in California.

😮😎👍

Hopefully be there.

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

That's too early for you 😊

@oldncarvingJohn

9 ай бұрын

Couldn't sleep and got up just after you finished. Carving looks fantastic. ❤❤

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

​@oldncarvingJohn cheers John. Hope your carvings are going well. I haven't seen any more videos.

@oldncarvingJohn

9 ай бұрын

@MattCarves life getting in the way at the moment. Hope to have one up this week.

Might be a branch from your peach tree

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Actually I think it might be Matai

I’m a beginner, how can I tell if the wood I found is hard or soft? Also do you have a video that shows how you carved the regular face (not wood spirit) that you also use in this video? I would like to do some sweet fairy or girl faces . Thanks, you are a wonderful teacher!

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

one of the first tests is Hard wood just feels heavy compared to softwoods (If both dry). Another test is to see if you can dent it with your fingernail. If you know what the wood is - Google its properties. Hard and soft woods are on a spectrum thus you can have really soft through to really hard and everything inbetween. Generally though just give it a go try carving it if its hardwood you will know. Cheers

Lol, ive just done 2 of those.... do you have spy cams in my shed? We seem to do similar things. It looks good, way better than mine. Nicely done Matt 👍👍👍

@MattCarves

9 ай бұрын

Ha ha, someone else asked me if I got spy cams as well. Hope your enjoying all this wind.

@markanthony559

9 ай бұрын

@@MattCarves yip, the winds are awesome lol, it's keeping me well stocked in wood. After the last wind storm I scored some bottle brush tree bits, a 8 foot branch ( bout as round as my head ) of Pohutukawa and so much Mac bits. I also scored a job doing 50 of those carved phone holder's I do. Busy busy.

@danielmilliken8903

4 ай бұрын

@@markanthony559where can I view phone holders ? I didint know you could do that. Are they cases or stands ? Cool !

@markanthony559

4 ай бұрын

@@danielmilliken8903 above is the link to my pintrest page. The phone holder's are stands for beside the bed, my stepdaughter uses hers to hold the phone while doing tic tok videos

Can you please tell us what bits you recommend.

@MattCarves

8 ай бұрын

For kutzall I recommend the extreme flame, and fine taper burr, there are also links in the description for others

@user-nl9yi8jy6r

8 ай бұрын

@MattCarves Thank you for your wisdom on the bits. I, too, use the dremmel tool. I carve walking sticks and make faces. I love seeing other works of art. I really enjoy what you do. Thank you very much.

@MattCarves

8 ай бұрын

@@user-nl9yi8jy6r no problem 😊

I hope I don’t miss this 🫠