How To Make Wood Carvings Shine

Step 3 Once a year move your carving to a flat covered surface clean it with your dry brush and apply two coats of polyurethane spray.

How to make wood carvings shine. Always work in the wood grain direction to avoid scratches and damage and use as little liquid and apply as. Use a large soft paperhangers brush or hogs hairbrush on the sculpture s particularly if the piece is old fragile and shows signs of deterioration. Not on your carving take a piece of wood make few cuts in it in different directions and different depth and stainpaint it.

Take your 60-grit sandpaper and sand down all the carvings surfaces by hand. Spray the tips of your brush with a nonwax furniture polish and brush the polish onto your wood carving. Take clear pore filler and with a paint sponge.

Wipe it onto the surface to fill in any pores in the wood. Follow the damp cloth with a dry one to remove any remaining moisture. Take care not to sand away any fine details.

Not on your carving take a piece of wood make few cuts in it in different directions and different depth and stainpaint it. Take your 60-grit sandpaper and sand down all the carvings surfaces by hand. It should lose roughness to the eye but a slight roughness will remain to the hand.

For the many people who dont have woodworking workshops and are not in a place where they can have one wood carving is a great way of getting immersed int. You have put a lot of work into a wood carving. Leave it to rest for about half an hour or come back to it after youve done anything else you need to do you cannot over-rest it.

Dab a small amount of beeswax or linseed walnut or tung oil onto a clean cloth and rub it over the completed ring inside and out. Dampen a rag with mineral spirits and then wipe the surface of the wood to remove all the dust and oils from the pores if there is any left to be left with a clean surface. For wax-polishing carved work benzine wax is preferred to turpentine wax because it does not clog the tine lines and notches so much.