Oh yeah,
Smoking gun, agreed.
A real carver would have at least filed down those corners.
Wait i thought i did these on a machine? doesnt that mean the corners would be absolutely perfect? Or could it be that i INTENTIONALLY left them not true round? Might make it harder to replicate that way you think? Wait dumb question, you hypothesize not think.
Okay, I
really want to understand this.
You start work on a piece of wood.
You know that you'll probably be sitting there for hours carving, chiseling, whatever the surface.
But you feel like sparing the
5 minutes it would take to create an at least acceptably smooth blank?
Seriously, I'd be more than happy to be wrong here, because I really like some of your work, but so far, I'm not convinced to the least.