Hobbit Hole Relief – Online Instructional Videos

Description

This is an online instructional video series that will teach you how to carve a relief scene featuring a hobbit hole and surrounding landscape.  You will receive unlimited access to the videos.  Watch them at your own pace, as many times as you need and whenever you want.

There are approximately 16.5 hours of videos.

You will provide your own wood.

The carving that Dylan will be making as he demonstrates will actually be a slightly different version of the pictured design. This is because the carving that he’ll be doing is part of a commission project and as such he was limited in some ways as to what he could do.  Limits that didn’t apply when he formatted it into the version that you’ll be carving. Almost all of the elements that Dylan will be carving are present in the pattern that you’ll receive, though some in different places and for the few things that are not present in Dylan’s version he will demonstrate those specifically.  Dylan specifically forbids you from directly coping the version that he’ll be doing so that he can provide a measure of exclusivity to his customer.  Plus the version Dylan has drawn for you is a better composition anyway.

This is going to be a fun project to carve as it will not have to be nearly as precise as Dylan’s normal relief scenes that include buildings and has great potential for personalizing.

Here’s a link to a short video explaining how you will login and access the videos after you have purchased them.  Login Instruction Video

Below is a suggested tool list.

• A Plunge Router (optional, but will save you a good bit of time if starting from scratch.)
• #2 gouges: 12mm, 3/4″ (19mm),
1″ (25mm)
• #5 gouges: 5/16″ (8mm),
12mm, 1″ (25mm)
• #7 gouge: 3/8″ (10mm)
• #9 gouges: 3/16″ (5mm), 18mm
• #11 gouge: 1/8″ (3mm)
• V-tools: 1/16″ (2mm), 5/16″ (8mm)
• Spoon-bent skew chisels: 1/8″
(3mm) left, 1/8″ (3mm) right
• Woodburner with tips: skew or
Guge, micro skew
• Rotary tool with bits: needle shaped
stump cutter, 1/16″-dia.
cylinder-shaped diamond,
1/32″-dia. inverted cone-shaped
flute cutter
• 3M radial bristle discs: 80 grit
(yellow), 220 grit (red), 400 grit (blue)