A new video has just been added to my online school. It is a relief carving of a grape leaf and grape design. The video shows how to lower the entire background flat. This one has a real nasty area in the wood where there is a knot and I show the technique of tackling it by cutting across the grain. The lowering the background took 1 hour of video, and carving the design took the same amount. Quite often, lowering the background takes longer than the carving itself. Sometimes a router is tempting 🙂