It is now easier than ever to join my online School of Traditional Woodcarving. Your starting point is a FREE membership that you can use as long as you please. That membership includes viewing access to a dozen (currently) lessons about beginning to carve and how to sharpen tools. From there it is easy to upgrade […]
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Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Open House
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks will be having their open house this Friday and Saturday, July 12 & 13 in Warren, Maine. I will be demonstrating carving, sharpening, and whatever else people want to know. What an incredibly beautiful area! I have never been to Maine before and I spent several hours driving down Highway 1 from Bangor to […]
Dastra Tools Now For Sale
I just got a large shipment of gouges and have them available for sale on my school store on my main web site. The company that makes them is a German company – Dastra (also called Frank Mittermeier who first started importing them in 1936). These are the tools I started out with over 20 years ago and they have been […]
Popular Woodworking Article on Linenfold Carving
If you don’t already have a subscription, pick up the latest issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine. I’ve got an article on carving the Linenfold Panels that are often seen in door and wall panels in English manor homes and cathedrals. There are some great articles this month – including one by George Walker on techniques of achieving good proportion […]
Concave Newport Shell Lesson on the Video Site
I just got the latest video up on my video school site – the Concave Newport Shell – finally! It’s been sitting there staring at me for a long time – taunting me – teasing me. I had enough and gave in. One hour and 40 minutes of crazy carving excitement – so much fun […]
My carving journey…
It has been over 20 years since I fell in love with European decorative carving. I was absolutely mesmerized by the carvings that I saw while traveling in Europe – the cathedrals and castles, the stone carvings on the outsides of buildings, the wooden carved details on the insides of the cathedrals. I was the […]