Period Furniture Carving

Acanthus Leaf and Shell Design

February 4, 2013 MaryMay Period Furniture Carving

I have been working on a project that is a very classical design – a center shell with scrolling acanthus leaves going down each side. This will go on the top of a square mirror. This is carved in basswood. I filmed this process and the video will be part of an online class offered through the Popular Woodworking [...]

Turned Pedestal Table with Diagonal Reeds

January 28, 2013 MaryMay Period Furniture Carving

The latest carving work I have been doing has been details for several period reproduction pieces for Greg Guenther in Savannah, GA. I will have to get the specifics from Greg of where the original came from. I was just focusing on the designs based on photographs. One is a corner design for a table with delicate little [...]

Carving a Classical Rosette

November 24, 2012 MaryMay Period Furniture Carving

I recently added another video to the school website on how to carve a beautifully swirling rosette. I recently carved a pair of these (in reverse spin) for a repair of a Charleston Bookcase from around 1770. They were fun little rosettes to carve, and I was kind of amazed that when I was finished [...]

Convex Newport Shell video up on the video site

October 31, 2012 MaryMay Newport Shell

I just put on my woodcarving school website a 2 hour long video on carving the Convex Newport Shell. This is the same video as the DVD with some slight variations in editing. It is broken down into 6 chapters: Chapter 1: Carving down the area under the shell Chapter 2: Shaping the shell Chapter [...]