Guinness World Record for Longest Continuous Wood Carving

[Administrator_JSVN]

While we doubt any Festool was used in this amazing feat of carving, check out the new Guinness World Record for Longest Continuous Wood Carving. Zheng Chunhui, a famous wood carver, spent four years creating the artwork which is over 40ft long and made from a single tree trunk.

Read more about it and view detailed photos here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509367/Guinness-Book-Records-creating-worlds-longest-wooden-carving.html

 

[semenza]

WOW!  [eek]  [cool]

Seth

 

[SittingElf]

Woulda been easier with a CNC machine!  OK... a BIG one! [tongue]

 

[RC]

And I'd love to understand how to map a 3D scan of the tree trunk as the non-flat dynamic surface to the somehow project the carving image onto it in a curved 3D space.

 

[Wooden Skye]

That is absolutely amazing!!

 

[andyman]

Ye seen this the other day amazing

 

[Administrator_JSVN]

If it were me, assuming that I had those skills which I don't, I would have gotten done to the very end and wanted to chisel away one last little imperfection and the whole thing would have busted apart and fallen in the floor.  [scared]