Last year I spent several days at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks in beautiful Warren, Maine filming for a basic woodcarving video. It is now available on their web site and will soon be available on mine.
This DVD starts from the very beginning – showing how to sharpen tools, how to transfer designs to wood, tool identification, safe use of tools, and the entire process of carving 2 shallow relief carving projects – a celtic knot (photo above) and a Phlox flower (photo below) modeled from a flower that was picked out of the garden that day. This is a video that covers the basics to help you get started in woodcarving with a minimal set of carving gouges.
Several months ago we filmed another more advanced carving DVD at Lie-Nielsen. The lessons are much deeper relief carving projects of carving a Lily and a Rose (see photo below) and should be available within the next few months.