Carving

Started trying my hand at a bit of wood carving recently,mainly to try and enhance my wood-turning.  Here are two recent attempts at carving signs,  I already posted one for "Old School House" back in September,  that one one incised carving ie the letter cut into the wood.  The two below are relief carving which of course means that the letter are left proud and the background is carved away.

CAVE SENEX  means 'beware of the Old Man'  this is done in Mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni)  actually a piece of the remnant of out old mantle shelf... It will probably finish up on the shed door as a warning!

This one is in Oak  (Quercus Robur)  I finished it by stippling the face of the letters with my Pyrography machine.  It is destined for horse's new stable, which is down a dark corridor, so the light doesn't show the lettering very well hence the pyro work. I'm quite pleased with both of those, but unless I can sell them for around £100 a time I don't think there is much profit in the hobby.