More practice ....

[tsunkasapa]

[Gezzer]

@tsunkasapa  I am going to like this matting tool , Thank you Sir !!!!  It's surprising how it lifts the image . This is the very first practice with it so a little time to get the hang of it and it will  " up my game " as they say 

 

[tsunkasapa]

You are most welcome. 

[PastorBob]

3 hours ago, Gezzer said:

It's surprising how it lifts the image

That looks really good.  May have to add one to my collection, unless I got it in a box from @Ferg

[Gezzer]

2 minutes ago, PastorBob said:

That looks really good.  May have to add one to my collection, unless I got it in a box from @Ferg

Thank you and it amazed me , I tooled this as I always do with the checkered beveller  and then matted .  Really gives the illusion of lift 

[tsunkasapa]

When we do floral carving, we use backgrounders to 'put down' the background. In figure carving there often is no background, and just beveling around our object gives the impression that it is 'down in a hole'. These matting tools help feather the beveling out and give depth to our creation. 

[Burkhardt]

Got a question, does figure carving mean that the stamps are super, super small because I thought I got a bunch of normal stamps off Ebay till I got the surprise when I opened the box? Like 20ish little surprises. 

[tsunkasapa]

Some are small, but some are quite large. If they are Tandy/Craftool they will have an 'F' and a number. And many of them don't make sense until you see how they are used. Can you post pics of what you got?

[Burkhardt]

Best I could get. On the golf ball picture the beveler doesn't have a scratch it's a mistake from the paint thing trying to down size pictures.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Burkhardt
Noticed a mistake

[chuck123wapati]

19 hours ago, Burkhardt said:

Got a question, does figure carving mean that the stamps are super, super small because I thought I got a bunch of normal stamps off Ebay till I got the surprise when I opened the box? Like 20ish little surprises. 

Tandy usually made 3 sizes of most of them or there a bouts if you print the numbers then i can tell you what size you have. or you can go to their site and find out. I ma lucky enough to have kept my old Tandy catalog with life-size pictures of each lol.