Wood Sculpture - Ball Cage

創客手札 | Maker's Logbook 37.

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While waiting for the client to review the drawings,

I finished the sculpture that had been sitting around for several days.

In the end, I decided to carve patterns onto the ball

( not on the cage as there was hardly any space to maneuver a knife...😑).

The carving process was quite a struggle,

even with a detail carving knife...

It was quite difficult to maneuver the knife through the small gaps of the cage,

what make it worse was that it's a curved surface...

Also there was no good way to fixate the ball,

the only way was to use my finger to pinch it.

And I had to constantly rotate the ball to expose the uncarved part...

By the time I was done, my fingers were almost cramping....

The man who created

"Ivory balls of nested concentric layers with human figures in openwork relief"

in the National Palace Museum is absolutely a master!