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Published: 2013-04-21 02:35:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 11313; Favourites: 349; Downloads: 0
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Custom order, this wand is made so to resemble Asian style. White ash wood, 27-28 cm long (10' 6 - 11 inch), hand carved.Ash wood proved incredibly hard for my hands, but even though I say it myself, every blister and cut earned actually paid off in the beauty of final piece. This wood gave me the freedom when working with scales and similar details and even though every night of work ended with fingers in the ice bath, I regret nothing
The stand you see in the background is my sister Sanja's work and there's a carved box that also accompanies this wand: [link]
By then, here's the video of this (blurry, as I couldn't get my camera in the end, so this one had to do): [link]
Btw, if interested in any of my objects or in unique custom orders, you know where to find me
Hope you like this 
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Comments: 52
You are awesome. I'd like to know what tools do you use to make the tiny details ? i'd just bought the tiniest woods carving tools i've found and i'ts still way to big to make little details like yours.
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Thanks
I use the set of tools more or less made by myself, actually. You see, I had the same problem with smallest tools that could be found on the market, so decided to play blacksmith (lol) for a while and converted some miniature screwdrivers and needles into the chisels. Won't lie and tell you it was easy to do, but the effort pays off (and I love working with metal, so it was fun
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Ahah wow. i will tell my father to try that ! What's your favorite wood to work on ?
You're so inspiring.
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Sorry for the late reply and thank you so much!
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This is absolutely beautiful. Wonderful carving. I'm not an advanced whittler myself, but I have to say this is impressive.
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Sorry for a extremely late reply...Thank you so much!
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Thank you! Coming from you, it means a lot!
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This is really incredible! *o* what kind of tools do you use for carving? Small chisels and gouges?
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Thank you so much
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I see! Thank you and keep on your amazing work!
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As a fellow woodcrafter I'm curious about the amount of time you put into this peace. im assuming 80+hrs. by chance do you know how many hours you put into this peace?
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You would be right...it's between 80 and 90, all though I can not tell you the straight number. All by hand, so you can imagine. I'm still in the process of curing
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that is an insane level of detail.... congratulations
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Haha, yeah, maybe...but it works well in the end and that's what's most important.
Thank you very much!
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A very fine piece of work, obviously a tremendous effort.
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Thank you so very much, I appreciate it!
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Yes, that's that dragon. I know I whined about my fingers and pain and all, but it turned out nicely in the end
Glad you like it
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Final result is more than nicely, it's amazing!
Now, is it my mind, or is it just me, but I can't stop thinking about direwolf wand... 
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This is a truly beautiful piece of work, makes me want to get my tools out
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Thank you so much and do, definitely do!
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The things most worth while come from pain and suffering. Sadly it's true 
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I don't mind suffering or pain for a goal, especially when it turns out how I wanted it to be
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I am frankly astonished that I'm not drooling right now.
This is incredible.
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Heh, thanks so much! I appreciate it
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Wow. It's stunning, beyond words. I especially love the detail you put into the scales. The wands I've seen you do are really inspirational and remind me just how beautiful woodcarving has the potential to be. I absolutely love them~ 
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First, thank you very much, truly! I appreciate that you like my wands
As for your question, I use very fine tools for details, chisels from 1 to 2 mm in width of the blade...that helps. Also, I made/smithed some of the tools myself and that helps as well
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Thanks for the info! I'm thinking about investing in some 1mm, 1/8", and 1/16" palm gouges, so I'll see what happens.
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Thank you! I know you've been following the complete process, so it really means much that you find it nicely done in the end
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I'm very impressed. I know how tedious scales can be given I have carved them and are in the process once again.
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They can be VERY tedious, you're right...in the end, I had to smith my own tool for that purpose only and it works semi-well (better on flat surfaces, worse on curved, so this wand's scales were done in mixed way, lol).
Also, thank you very much, again...I'm pretty much stunned by your works too, you know?
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