Carving Your Second Shell P. Michael Henderson January 1, 2009
get enough practice with the Simple Shell, it's time to try a
more difficult shell. This shell builds on the Simple Shell but
adds the complexity of curved flutes (which have to be drawn by
hand) and very close spacing of cuts at the bottom. If you find
this tutorial useful, I'd really appreciate if you would send me
an e-mail with the subject line of "Second Shell" so I can get
some indication of how many people are reading it. Here's a
picture of the finished shell you'll be carving in this
tutorial. I'm not going to start from basics here - you need to
review the Simple Shell Tutorial to see how to prepare the
carving blank and mount it. Note that I use the Swiss system
when describing carving tools in all of my I had prepared this
blank long ago and just pulled it out for this tutorial. Note
the red marker on the top. I usually do this when I want to
remind myself that there's something unusual about this blank -
maybe the wood has streaks in