Summer-long project in stone. This was a lot of fun. If you liked this format of video, please check out Frank Howarth on RU-vid at / urbantrash . His videos are fantastic and were a huge inspiration for this one.
dont know why this doesnt have more views. the world needs more videos like this, literally just a guy sculpting and explaining the process; every other video is either really low quality and messy or theyre really all over the place and boring, idk, ur vid kinda struck a chord with me, its simple and to the point. great job dude hopefully youll make more vids in the future
A little trick my grandfather taught me was use a sponge as the backing of the sandpapers.. You can also use a glue to shape the sponge (to slightly harden it) and then glue sand directly to it...some finishes require you to screen the sand for size...and when you do this use (olive oil) to wet sand....given a little time it will polish to a mirror finish...good work though...👍 much impressed 12th generation stone mason
Hi! Christian, Excellent your diorite stone sculpture. The diorite is too hard for calving, but beautiful black stone for sculpture a Pharaoh. Thanks for job carving sculpture on RU-vid channel.
As we all know the one thing that will be around in 20,000 years is this stone sculpture well unless it's smashed. The one material that stands the test of time for several Millenia
This is really cool. I've been wanting to stone sculpt for a while, but I live in an apartment complex, so I can't. There're very few videos on stone sculping here, so this was nice to see.
This is nice to see something taking shape from a block. I can't help but think how they did this is the time of the Egyptians working without power tools.
you don't have to go back that far. Many homes built from stone prior to electricity with elaborate stone carvings and detailed woodwork like curved staircases/railings.
Excellent work. I came here because I was curious how egyptians were able to carve such hard stone into such perfectly smooth surfaces, possibly just with hand tools, and it made me realize that they most likely had some kind of way of sanding for the final finish or else how else would they ever have gotten things so incredibly perfectly smooth in such hard rock that was carved?
Abraisive like silicon and alumina oxides occure naturally and were the go too until the introduction of diamond abrasives in early 20th century. The speed it can be done with today is the only real change.
i got some carbide chisels at harbor freight. work way better than i thought they would for 13 dollars. and a lifetime warrantee. if it breaks or bends you get new ones. and i just went to a bridge, got a big peice of GRAVEL limestone rock thing....and started carving it...thanks for this tips.. oh but i do have some more expensive chisels... tungsten.
Like the video and the explanation; but it is the first time I see a sculpting video using a dremel to be honest; and of course it is a lot of work; that is the fun part of sculpting :)
Now do it without power tools! Make sure it’s a perfect mirror image and accurate to a couple thousandths overall. Then polish it to a mirror finish, don’t forget the small details like fingernails.
Duuud this video is great! The comments the cammera the angle the light now, imagine a jean paul gaultier le male bottle made of stone That would be amazing I'm subscribing to your channer hoping more vids like this maby small things whatever would be great Sorry for my bad english Saludos de Perú
the cut the work with flint, and use a simple string tool to meause a level to within 1/10th of a mm. :Scientists against myths" channel carves granite using only tool found in egypt.
Thank you for sharing this project, I admire your tenacity to see it through. It makes me think of how much work the Egyptians took on. I understand what you mean about getting fatigued and just wanting to finish it. That mindset change is the hardest to move past, I find. It’s almost like the true test of life is to continue on and keep shaping and never resting or being completely satisfied. Even if someone spent 50 years shaping a massive obelisk, I can’t imagine it’s easy to just lay down the tools and say “well I’m finished with this one.” So much time invested into perfecting a masterpiece, I think it would be almost impossible to not see a tiny surface you want to just touch up a little. Lol 😂Awesome work man 👍👌🇨🇦😎🍻
👍🏆 I'M SURPRISED, you're not working with a solid foundation. (Shaking table) ??? That dust gets into your pores. (wear gloves and the proper clothing). How many hours did it take ?
Just imagine how hard it was for the Egyptians to me this is proof that they had high technology power tools or something because their sculptures are so perfect there is one sculpture and it may be many more that are perfectly symmetrical on both sides I don't know it just makes me think that they definitely were smarter than we thought all ancient builders
Idea: Paint or draw your outlines on a tablet, then project the results onto your model. You can even use full 3D models to project even more accurate side views
The footage skips from having a blocky outline of a statue directly to there being a figure carved into it and you showed none of the process of getting there.
Great documentary !!! leads into Zecharia Sitchin work on Anunaki, cuneiform tablets and the flood story of gilgamesh & creation of man, the book, 12th planet. his theory's are interesting.
I dont think there is anyway around it, they had to have power tools that had same properties as our current day modern tools or better !! to archive the splendor and magnificent the statues and temples provide I want to see a modern day carver do this, on the harder diorite / basalt stone with our current tools and bits, if they cant do it, that means ancient alien tech was employed period..........
@@roninnovastar1321 The base stones of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem which are under the ground built during the time of king Solomon, are the same size but only way 300 tons but how did they move them. There is a mobile Russian crane today that may be just about heavy enough to lift the stones at Baalbek but I say ‘may”.
