Relief Carving of Killarney, Georgian Bay - SANDING and COATING and CUTTING our most recent sculpted painting | Claustro

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• After completing the carving, Stu spends hours and hours of fine sanding the work using several tools and techniques. Here, Stu is using one of his larger sanders.
• The sky on this piece however requires patience and skill in fine sanding with a much smaller tool. It's crazy hard!
• Closeup of how Stu uses this smaller sanding tool carefully in each crevice.
• Stu applying the final coating before priming and cutting to size.
• Stu brushing on epoxy left to right to seal the surface of the wood.
• Stu pooring and brushing the epoxy onto the wood surface ensuring the epoxy is soaked into every crevice.
• Closeup of Stu applying the second coat of marine quality epoxy to seal the wood surface.
• Getting ready to cut the panel into a triptych.
• Laying the lines to make the rough cuts to size.
• The panel is flipped on its back and clamped to the table to allow an accurate straight cut with the handsaw. HERE WE GO!
• No turning back now! Stu is making his second cut.
• And that's a *thumb's up*! The single panel is now a rough sized triptych.
• Stu suiting up to use the heavy handtools. He's very safety oriented. yah think?
• Once the template is placed on the panel, Stu uses a handsaw to make a closer cut before using the router.
• Stu using the router to get the accurate cut alongside the template.
• Closeup of the wood panel on the bottom and the template clamped on top ... the router created the perfect final cut.
• Carol measuring the spacing between panels to ensure accuracy of composition.
• And there it is ... the final triptych. Now Stu will coat the freshly cut edges and put the final coatings on the piece before it goes to Carol's studio.