To make a bamboo pen container, you need to prepare: a bamboo tube (about 15 cm in length and about 10 cm in diameter), a plane, a knife, coarse sandpaper, fine sandpaper, a meat cutter and oil.
Production steps:
1, don't be busy carving. There is still a lot of work to be done before the official carving. The first thing is cooking. This step is mainly to prevent corrosion, insects and cracks in the future. Use a large-caliber pot and fill it with water. Water overflows the bamboo tube, and it is advisable to add a little edible salt. Bring it to a boil with high fire, and then cook it with medium fire for at least 1 hour.
2. When cooking, dry the bamboo tube with a dry towel immediately, and then put it in a cool and ventilated place to dry for about a week.
3. plane the skin with a plane. If you want to carve bamboo, you should keep the bamboo skin. Then, if you like bamboo, you can keep it. If you don't like bamboo joints, you can also shave them off with a plane.
4. If it is wet, continue to dry. After drying, polish it with coarse sandpaper. It must be very powerful. All uneven places should be polished off, and the opening of the pen container should be polished smoothly. Then change the fine sandpaper and continue to polish it carefully. At this time, the grinding should follow the texture of bamboo as much as possible. In half an hour to an hour, a blank pen container will be finished.
5. Confirm again whether the bamboo tube is really dry. If it is dry, consider carving. First of all, we must choose a good theme. This process will be very long and belongs to the process of artistic creation. Choose a good theme, but also design the layout and font size. You can use word for typesetting and then print it out, then put a carbon paper on the printed manuscript and stick it on the pen holder, then print the words on the pen holder like a red pen, and then dig out the words bit by bit with a meat cleaver.
6, and then continue to use fine sandpaper to polish the whole again, and carefully modify the defects with a carving knife.
7. The last process is oiling. If possible, cover the whole pen container directly with pure olive oil, both inside and outside. After a few hours, the grease will be completely absorbed, and the whole pen container will look more textured and crack-proof.
Extended data:
Bamboo plane carving:
1, bas-relief:
Mainly plane sculpture, with a slight three-dimensional level, also known as thin relief, just like the thin sculpture in printed button sculpture.
2, stay green sculpture:
Also known as leather carving, it is a convex carving method in leather carving. The pictures and texts are left on the bamboo skin (green), and the rest are shoveled off as the bottom (ground). If the pictures and texts are layered by shallow carving, there will be a different ink and wash effect, which will be the best for green carving. Commonly used in pen containers, handrails and fan bones. Its characteristic is to express calligraphy and painting with pen and ink.
3. profound:
The notch is so deep that you can see it clearly without the help of highlights. Suitable for carving calligraphy works and sketch painting, with the charm of inscriptions, mostly used in handrails, fan bones, pen holders and flip springs. It is a common method of bamboo crafts.
4. Shallow carving:
The incision is very shallow, and you often need strong light to see the knife marks. This is the shallowest incision. Mostly used for handrails and fan bones, mainly to express the interest of painting.
5, leather carving:
That is, it is rare to make concave carvings on bamboo. The combination of shallow engraving and deep engraving is suitable for engraving and painting, and the painting and calligraphy are expressive.
6. Double springs:
Also known as sticky spring, it is the name of a bamboo product. It can be embossed, shallowly carved and deeply engraved on the bamboo spring. Bamboo springs are mostly made into utensils, which are often general commodities, with a large number and few good structures. With depth as the main carving method, notches are often embedded with colors such as azurite and turquoise.
7. Fine carving:
Also known as Mao Diao, it is mainly carved lines, mostly carved with one knife, and the notch has burrs.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Bamboo Crafts