what do you use

[Breezly]

Want to know what you use for painting your carving on .I would like to get my carvings off paper and such .

[Whittling]

I don't paint all that often. I like the beauty of wood. Paint can also sometimes cover up carving rather than enhance it. On the occassions I do paint work, I use a heavy plastic sheet as a sort of 'drop cloth' on the kitchen table.

[Claude]

I have a cheap softwood workbench from Home Depot, and I stick a 1/4 inch dowel into a bookshelf at one end of the bench. Since my carvings are generally small, I stick a straight pin in the bottom of the carving, tie a piece of thread to it, and after wrapping the other end of the thread around the dowel a couple of times, secure it with a clothespin. This allows the carving to hang above the workbench. Using acrylics, I rarely get any drips.

For larger carvings, or those I finish with oil-based varnish, I just put a couple of toothpicks on the work bench and set the carving on the toothpicks to dry.

Claude

[Breezly]

thanks claude for the ideas

[tvance124]

I have a piece of dowel with a drywall screw (head cut off) epoxied in end. Then a piece of 2X4 with a hole drilled in that fits the dowel. Works great.