Granitehead
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So apropos my Theremin - I decided I didn't like that case I made, so I left it at a stage where it looks pretty finished (though ugly), but not very functional.I found a piece of linden wood which seemed acceptable (I think it still is), but it turns out we don't actually have any carving knices. Where did you get those carving knifes and what does "cheap" mean?
We have two gouges, both of which need to be sharpened properly. I really need to search the internet for a guide on how the tip of those gouges actually is supposed to look, then I can probably sharpen them properly. We have got the suitable machine, my father uses it for sharpening his wood turning tools (however those are called in English).
I'm really lacking quite some experience in this area, having only carved some stuff in school, and that probably only because I went to a private school the first six years, where stuff like this was done much more often than in the usual public school (we also had gardening class. That was not something I liked, but whatever. It never hurts to have done something like this, I guess the usual kid doesn't ever get to do something like this. They even had some sheep, and in retrospect it's actually really a nice garden, if you like to work yourself to death just to get some vegetables from your own garden. I don't).
But sometimes I just want to /make/ something, so this is something I want to do more. It's just really not rewarding at all, going to school, don't really doing anything. I just sit there, pay attention (more or less), sometimes write a test - that's no proper full time occupation (no, I don't spend time on school at home - I don't need to, usually, just sometime some longer assignment which I can't {actually: shouldn't} skip, but those are rare).
