Oh Canada!

[holmqer]

Carved a Maple Leaf into a Goose Egg then airbrushed the inside of the egg red to create a Canadian Flag look.

 

[Padre]

Looks good Eric.

 

[Jim15]

Awesome work.

 

[holmqer]

Thanks all.

Charlie - With the right techniques, there is not a lot of risk of breaking the egg while carving. The big risk is cutting through a planned filgree rib and having holes that are bigger then planned.

 

[rjwolfe3]

Wow that is gorgeous!

 

[snyiper]

What do you carve that with? Man that takes a steady hand!!! That is a awesome egg right there nice job.

 

[wolftat]

Looks good, but I would have made an omelet.

 

[holmqer]

What do you carve that with? Man that takes a steady hand!!! That is a awesome egg right there nice job.

Egg carving is typically done with a microturbine air tool, with the two most common products being the Turbo Carver or the NSK Presto.

http://www.turbocarver.com

http://www.nskamericacorp.com/prod_handTools_presto.aspx

Both of these use 1/16" shank dental burrs.

I used the NSK Presto with a 699L burr for this piece

These types of tools are also used for pierced wood turnings

Examples from some of the absolute masters of the technique are

Bihn Pho
http://www.binhpho.com/gallery.html

Joey Richardson
http://www.joeyrichardson.com/

Gary LeMaster
http://theeggshellsculptor.com/

 

[wood-of-1kind]

Beauty, eh:biggrin: