more stone carving
Jul. 14th, 2024 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareina Yesterday was "Barnensdag" in Vallen, a pretty village 20 km from were we live in Lövånger. As they have done for many years, they asked Keldor to please come do stuff in the smithy as part of the general atmosphere of the day's activities, and I came along and worked on my cooking pot in progress. The smithy has mounted on display on the wall an older set of bellows, which was made in 1766, so it is at least that old.
We were there five hours, which was enough time to use my pointy chisel to carve 48 in curved lines from the edge to the middle, then use a broader chisel to remove much of the ridges between, and then start using the curved axe to begin turning the high spots of the new surface (which is at least 0.5 cm deeper than the last, and might be as much as 1 cm deeper) into powder before I start the next set of lines. This time he made a short film of my carving, if you are curious to see how it is coming along, take a look.
When I carve in such a public setting people always ask how long it takes to make a pot. I didn't know, so we tried guestmating yesterday, and came up with a guess of around 50 hours. Today I went through the various logs on my phone (one past me set up a subcategory "soapstone carving" under exercise logs, and another set up a top level category "soapstone carving" with sub headings for the various projects I have worked on, so it took a bit of effort to consolidate the info and calculate totals. And, of course, I can't guarantee that I logged all of my carving sessions at all, and some of them I never clocked out of, so I gave those end times of 15 to 30 minutes later, which at least gives a number that is reasonable.
So, the pot in the video is, by that count, up to 87.9 hours, spread over 41 days during the past seven years (ranging from 2 to 14 days a year of recorded rock carving time for this project).
The forge stone I made for Lofotr took 50.6 hours over 12 days working at their visitor center.
I have a total of 170 recorded hours stone carving on those two big projects, plus various small projects I have done over the past seven years (66 days during which I did stone carving).
We were there five hours, which was enough time to use my pointy chisel to carve 48 in curved lines from the edge to the middle, then use a broader chisel to remove much of the ridges between, and then start using the curved axe to begin turning the high spots of the new surface (which is at least 0.5 cm deeper than the last, and might be as much as 1 cm deeper) into powder before I start the next set of lines. This time he made a short film of my carving, if you are curious to see how it is coming along, take a look.
When I carve in such a public setting people always ask how long it takes to make a pot. I didn't know, so we tried guestmating yesterday, and came up with a guess of around 50 hours. Today I went through the various logs on my phone (one past me set up a subcategory "soapstone carving" under exercise logs, and another set up a top level category "soapstone carving" with sub headings for the various projects I have worked on, so it took a bit of effort to consolidate the info and calculate totals. And, of course, I can't guarantee that I logged all of my carving sessions at all, and some of them I never clocked out of, so I gave those end times of 15 to 30 minutes later, which at least gives a number that is reasonable.
So, the pot in the video is, by that count, up to 87.9 hours, spread over 41 days during the past seven years (ranging from 2 to 14 days a year of recorded rock carving time for this project).
The forge stone I made for Lofotr took 50.6 hours over 12 days working at their visitor center.
I have a total of 170 recorded hours stone carving on those two big projects, plus various small projects I have done over the past seven years (66 days during which I did stone carving).