Wood Carving an Isle of Lewis Chess Piece - a pawn

In this video, Paul carves an Isle of Lewis Chesspiece. It is one of the pawns and the images he referenced were from the Musuem of London online catalog. There were several styles of pawns found and Paul is carving one of them from Sycamore wood.

Paul intends to carve a whole Isle of Lewis Chess Set using a variety of pieces (with different styles of pawn, warders, kings etc...) Every piece will be unique, but as close to the original as possible. The light set is going to be Sycamore wood and the dark set is going to be Cherry Wood.

All of these pieces will have a separate YouTube playlist.

The tools used in this video were:

- Flexcut Roughing knife (KN14)
- Flexcut detail knife (KN13)
- Flexcut mini chip knife (KN20)
- unbranded 10mm palm chisel
- unbranded 7mm hand chisel
- Flexcut gouge FR600 - 3 by 3mm
- Flexcut gouge FR601 - 5 by 3mmThanks for taking the time to view our video – if you liked it, we would be truly grateful if you hit the ‘like’ button.

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- On Sunday at 11am we will be uploading a Wood Carving video
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Video recorded on 29th and 31st July on DJI Pocket 2, edited using Shotcut. Music by Epidemic Sound (track - Down by the Barn by Damon Greene)

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