Hand Carving a Viking Valknut

[@saramulry]

Great first video & great music!

[@stuffbyneilsmith]

Thanks Sara, I don't go for that other style of music that you hear all of the time 😁

[@tom314]

Well done making your first video and first piece of carving! That's a lot of material to hog out by hand and especially well done for not accidentally removing a big chip from your valknut. I'm sure you're style will develop with time but one suggestion, please normalise the sound levels a bit, I have to turn it right up to hear you speak then a few seconds later when the music kicks in my children are asking me to turn it down... I do like your music choice though :) I liked a piece of advice Jimmy DiResta gave, trust your viewer, show them something once then trust they can assume you've used the same technique to finish the next steps. (might be slightly paraphrased)

[@stuffbyneilsmith]

Cheers Tom, yeah the sound thing is something I definitely need to work on, I'll need to find that happy medium of volume from speech, which at time I do talk quietly to letting the music rock on.

[@gregmislick1117]

First off - KUDOS - you’ve dive j to the deep end and come up first another go. Carry on. B) The Val Knut came out quite well, as noted above well done to not split off a chunk. 3) Audio levels also as noted. You got better in the last 3rd, but I believe that was due to speaking louder rather than improved levels balance between clips. Steady on, the outlook is for clear skies and following seas.

[@stuffbyneilsmith]

I have to admit the sound was all voice over and never recorded with the software I have. I'll have to do some tests and trials.

[@briangustin3745]

Not bad for a first. May be helpful down the road to explain techniques (I.E. tool control, etc.) and perhaps you'll eventually do a piece on how you hold down your work securely, if you get it figured out.. :)

[@stuffbyneilsmith]

Thanks for your comment Brian, I was thinking sometime down the line to do a video that's broken into down into different parts, to almost become a series, showing the techniques I use or I'm learning in more detail.