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I'm undecided whether it's a coaster or a paperweight

This is the result of a lot of stubbornness.
An attempt at carving a knotwork pattern on a "slice" of oak (this wood was hard, argh...).
I made the pattern rather simple in the hope it won't be too difficult to carve. Single-line pattern btw.

This looks wonky, but heh, for a 1st time, and without the right tools, I'm happy (and stubborn).

I started with a simple cutter... didn't work well on oak. Then I found an old chisel among my father tools (at first it was as blunt as a screwdriver, I tried my best to sharpen it but I guess a woodworker would still have called that blunt) and that was a bit better. I used a dremel-like rotary tool to try deepen the part between the lines, as the chisel was too wide for that.

Not a single finger was cut, that too makes me happy

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Now, maybe I should think of finding some proper tools, or even better, a training workshop somewhere...

Description
I'm undecided whether it's a coaster or a paperweight

This is the result of a lot of stubbornness.
An attempt at carving a knotwork pattern on a "slice" of oak (this wood was hard, argh...).
I made the pattern rather simple in the hope it won't be too difficult to carve. Single-line pattern btw.

This looks wonky, but heh, for a 1st time, and without the right tools, I'm happy (and stubborn).

I started with a simple cutter... didn't work well on oak. Then I found an old chisel among my father tools (at first it was as blunt as a screwdriver, I tried my best to sharpen it but I guess a woodworker would still have called that blunt) and that was a bit better. I used a dremel-like rotary tool to try deepen the part between the lines, as the chisel was too wide for that.

Not a single finger was cut, that too makes me happy

---
Now, maybe I should think of finding some proper tools, or even better, a training workshop somewhere...