Furniture & Sculpting

Sculpting a long live-edge timber trough with an Arbortech carving attachment

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Go big, carvebolder

Everything you need to take on larger forms — chair seats, slab tables, relief panels and freestanding sculpture — from fast stock removal to the final blended curve.

From slab to statement piece

Furniture and sculpture ask more of your tools than any spoon ever will. You are moving serious material — scooping a seat, flowing an armrest, coaxing a figure out of a slab — and every pass has to stay controllable.

Arbortech attachments turn a standard angle grinder into a sculpting system: aggressive shaping when the blank is square, progressively finer control as the form emerges, and finishing tools that keep the surface honest to the curve you carved.

Technique

Sculpt seats and slabs with the TURBOPlane

The TURBOPlane removes timber fast while leaving a surface you can actually work with — no torn grain, no gouge marks to chase. Scoop chair seats, sculpt slab edges and blend long curves in minutes, then step down to finer tools for the finish.

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Sculpt seats and slabs with the TURBOPlane
Maker insight

The form is already in the slab — carving just takes away the argument.

Big pieces reward decisive roughing and patient blending. Commit early to the silhouette, then slow down as the curves take over.

Kevin InksterFounder, Arbortech

The process

Three moves from slab to sculpture

The same rhythm scales from a carved stool seat to a full sculptural commission.

  1. Step 1

    Rough the silhouette

    Work the blank down fast with the TURBOPlane or Industrial Woodcarver — establish seat depth, slab edges and the overall stance before any refinement.

  2. Step 2

    Sculpt & blend

    Flow one surface into the next with progressively lighter passes, keeping walls and joints thick enough for strength.

  3. Step 3

    Refine & finish

    Fair the curves, sand through the grits and finish with oil or hardwax so the form reads as one continuous gesture.