How to Set Up Work Area for Wood Carving

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Husain Abdul Alim and I am here to tell you all about wood carving. Yeah we like to work outdoors. You know in the sunshine and the fresh air. Cold weather, warm weather, we put a jacket on cause we don't like to clean up. And the easiest clean up is outside, the wood chips can go all in my garden. You know back in Philly I use to find opportunities to go to the park, you know and just sit out in the sun in the afternoon and just dream about being here in the sunny Arizona chipping my heart's desire. But I will always be outdoors pretty much, although the mentor I learned from loved to work at night. When it got you know, eight o'clock, nine o'clock, he worked till one, two in the morning and he worked inside on a bench. So I mean whatever you are most comfortable with. For me I am an outdoor person and I love my gardens and I enjoy to hear the birds and to feel the sunshine. Of course, we like the shade out in Arizona because it gets a little bit too hot, but working outdoors and occasionally I work on my bench. But mostly I work here on my waist and we will set up a platform like this, but it will safe the waist. But if I am outdoors and I don't have all of this, I am chipping like this; sitting on the ground chipping, everybody says, watch yourself don't cut up anything, but as of yet I haven't cut off a thing, it still there trust me. But the wood carving becomes really easier when you can set up a platform and it is not moving. On the bench we will put a vice on it sometimes if the piece is moving too much or we will get somebody to hold it, hold the piece for us. But outdoors, we enjoy the outdoors working. Well with the work bench here we got enough stability with the four legs, three legs, you know so when I can hammer, it is not going anywhere. It is sitting right there not going anywhere. You don't want your piece riding or moving and having a mind of its own. The chips fly in every place, it is preferable to be outdoors."