Making Wooden Buddha
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I began to make a wooden Buddha while seeing a manual book.This is the 6th works. I think that I make a lot of wooden Buddha and that I want to dedicate them to the temple.

Dec. 9/2007
The material is a cherry tree and camphor tree.ø60-80mm.
I cut down the center of the bottom a little. Then, stability improves.
I press with the paper pattern as the material, and mark it with the pen.
I cut out the part of the skin that had marked it by the graver.
I marks it with a paper pattern of the Buddha.
The position of the nose and the mouth is marked by using Scribing block.
It roughly cuts the outline.
It has become considerably three-dimensional.
I mark it again by using Scribing block.
finish. It is difficult to carve the mouth.
I paint its eyes and lip with a pencil.
I bond the glass bead to the forehead of the Buddha. It is completion.