Methods of Enhancing

• Enhance is to refine, improve, or enrich the surface of a product
• Decorate is to beautify
• Splint is a broken chip on wood
• Innovative is something new, creative or inventive
• Accessories are something that contributes to the beauty
• Marketability is the ease of selling a product
• Woodturning is a process of using a lathe to make various forms and shapes of wood.
• Lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis
• Hand Carving is a woodcraft in which a sharp object is used to create designs on the wood. Various textures and surfaces can be created using this technique. Chip carving knife, gouge, and chisel are the main tools used in this technique.
• Gouge is a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery
• Pyrography is a technique of art using fire or heat to decorate wood or leather
• Flocking technique is a decoration process that enhances the way a wide variety of products are experienced by making ordinary surfaces seem far more magical and special. It deposits millions of little individual cut fiber particles (''flock") onto the surface of an article for the purpose of increasing the tactile sensation, aesthetics, color and appearance
• Inlaying combines several techniques that involve inserting decorative pieces in to a base object to incorporate new designs on the original product
• Gilding is a decorative technique in which powder is applied on wood or other materials to give a thin coating of gold. Methods of this technique include gluing, chemical gilding, and electroplating
• Staining is used to color wood to give an illusion of texture
• Painting is the simplest way of decorating wood since there is a variety of colors that you can choose from
• Methods of Enhancing and Decorating Metal products: Engraving, Etching, Metal enhancing media, Texturing and Embossing
• Engraving is a method of transferring a design on metal using a hardened steel tool called burin or graver to cut into the surface of the metal
• Etching is a process to make designs or pictures on a metal plate by using acid that produces corrosive action
• Metal Enhancing Media uses various materials such as metal paints, copic markers, and antiquing kits to give color to the metal product
• Texturing and Embossing creates imprints on the metal by using hammers, metal stamps, stencils, and other materials