Recently I have had several discussions about how wonderful a particular double-sided duct tape is for attaching your carvings to a temporary backer board. The one I have been using is Shurtape which is a type of double-sided duct tape. Chales Neil introduced it to me last year. It can be purchased in the duct-tape section […]
I’m working on a letter carving project for a memorial bench for Grace Episcopal Church here in Charleston, SC. The priest provided me a font that he wanted the letters carved in and I simply enlarged the small printed font on a photo copier to the size they wanted in the bench (2-1/2″ tall). I then laid […]
The latest video lesson that I have added to my online school is how to carve a Fleur De Lis. It will be a total of 2 episodes, and so far the first episode has been added to the school. But WAIT! There’s more! This first episode can also be watched as a “sample” lesson for FREE […]
I’ve gone into quite a few different workshops and am always fascinated with what people listen to on the radio while they are working. Probably most often is classic rock. Then the next favorite is classical music (usually NPR). Country Western on occasion. Then there is talk radio that shows up here and there. There are […]
I just finished teaching a challenging but very fun class on the Fundamentals of Woodcarving at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Indianapolis, Indiana. These classes at Marc’s can be pretty intense because of the size (18 students) and the length of class (5 days). It was a great group of students and they tackled some […]
Highland Woodworker has just published an interview with me on their “Web TV for Woodworkers” site – Episode 12. There are several other things happening on that particular show – You can also see Luthier Kipp Krosa and his beautiful musical instruments, Glen Huey talking about how to buy shellac that is not too old […]
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