How To Carve Eggs With A Dremel
6 minute spirit carving anyone can do with a dremel Wood spirits are his specialty and his tutorials on making them dont have much preparation before starting.
How to carve eggs with a dremel. Dremel wood carving is a great way to make engraved wood art. Even you can use dremel wood carving letters for making anything. A Dremel can be found at any hardware store and you can mix and match the tips to carve rocks wood and other mediums.
While started craving you need to give time. You can use both drill bits and smoothening tools to get this done. You will learn how to place your pattern pieces onto the egg and then score the pattern onto it after which you will learn how to connect your design in the open spaces.
You might try dipping them in wax or spraying them with an acrylic sealer to toughen them up a bit. If it dried first it might be flake out better but it might also be harder to clear out since it would probably break off in bits. For those of you that might not know a Dremel is a hand powered tool with different tips that is mostly used for craft purposes such as carving etching and sanding small items.
April 22 2011 at 2055. Do this very slowly and I have found that turning the egg while holding the Dremel in one place you have a little more control over the speed that way. Set the highest rpm that is 35000 on the Dremel multi tool.
Then you can start using dremel to bring the design in shape. Gently but securely hold the egg shell in one hand the rotary tool in the other and slowly carve away the design you drew on the egg. You can obtain beautiful results that look like you used a higher speed drill.
Details include how to use a Dremel to carve wood and stain and give it a unique shine. In this one hes able to pick up what looks like a branch you would find on the ground and make a wood spirit in 6 minutes. Ideal for beveling countersinking carving shaping counterboring chamfering and for getting into acute angled areas of glass stone ceramic composites and hard woods.