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3D Tai Fish

General info

3D_tai_fish 1 3D_tai_fish 2 3D_tai_fish 3
  • Great gift for your friends and family
  • Can be used as soap for bathing or washing (remove the paper eye)
  • Difficulty: Easy

What you will need

supplies
  • Soap
  • Carving or Exacto knife
  • Toothpick
  • Needle
  • Tai Fish Template (download here )
  • Clear self-adhesive tape
  • Double-sided self-adhesive tape

Soap info

Ichigo Milk soap

Used in tutorial

ichigo milk soap
  • Available
  • Milk and strawberry scented
  • Diameter: 6.8 cm (2-3/4")
  • Thickness: 2.8 cm (1-1/8")
  • Weight: 80g (3 oz)

Cherry blossom mild soap

pink soap
  • Not available
  • Pink colour
  • Cherry blossom scented
  • Size: 7.5 cm (3") x 5.5 cm (2-1/8") x 2.3 cm (7/8")
  • Weight: 80 g (3 oz)

Açaí soap

acai soap
  • Not available
  • Purple color
  • Size: 7 cm (2-3/4") x 5.2 cm (2-1/8") x 2.5 cm (1")
  • Weight: 80 g (5 oz)

Nodoka rice bran soap

nodoka yellow soap
  • Not available
  • Yellow colour
  • Floral scented
  • Weight: 75 g (2.65 oz)

Instruction video

Instructions

1. Choose your favourite template type and cut it out.
step 1
2. Slice off the top of your soap. Soap should have the thickness of 15 mm.
step 2
3. Trace the template with a toothpick.
step 3
4. Poke holes using a needle along the template as shown.
step 4
5. Draw lines along the holes.
step 5
6. Cut a fish shape deeply.
step 6
7. Cut out the fish shape.
step 7
8. Carve a dorsal fin.
step 8
9. Make the fin wavy.
step 9
10. Carve bottom fins the same way as the previous.
step 10
11. Carve a mouth.
step 11
12. Trim the edge of the fish.
step 12
13. Make the tail fin wavy.
step 13
14. Carve a pectoral fin.
step 14
15. Divide the soap between the two fins into 3 equal parts as shown.
step 15
16. Carve the scales.
step 16
17. Smooth the soap that you'll carve the next row.
step 17
18. Repeat steps 17-18 for next three rows.
step 18
19. Carve 2 scales below the pectoral fin.
step 19
20. Carve the rows 5-11 repeating steps 17-18.
step 20
21. Carve the other scales.
step 21
22. Glue the self-adhesive tape on fish eye on the template.
step 22
23. Glue the double-sided self-adhesive tape on the underside of fish eye on the template.
step 23
24. Cut out the fish eye from the template.
step 24
25. Glue the eye on the soap.
step 25
26. Done!
step 26

Did you know?

festive tai fish
This fish, called "Tai" in Japanese, is regarded as the symbol of good luck in Japan.