I have recently completed one side of the acanthus scrolls for the top of a Philadelphia Highboy carved in mahogany. The photo below is of a Highboy that I carved about 8 years ago. Danny Hinson, of Charleston SC, built 2 of these and I carved the details both of them. He got one, and I […]
New Letter Carving video
I recently finished a job for a church where I carved words for a mahogany memorial bench. The full words – IN MEMORIAM MARY B WILSON. I set up the video camera where I showed how to carve the “ORIAM” in Memoriam. There was enough variety in those letters to show a lot of techniques of […]
Custom-Made Wooden Bench Dogs
Sometimes while I am happily carving along, I need to be cautious and not let my carving gouges “gouge” into my metal bench dogs. I’m pretty sure which one will come out worse in this match – and it’s NOT the bench dogs. There are times when I get very close to hitting these metal bench dogs with […]
What do you do for fun?
I was recently asked the question – “What do you do for fun?”. In other words – “What do you do in your spare time when you’re not working your day job?” I sort of stared at her like a deer in the headlights for a moment – having a kind of mini-panic attack.I should be able […]
Carving a Cross in a Circle
The latest video added this week to my online video school is a sweet little relief carved cross in a circle. This was a project I carved for a memorial bench for local church. There was also a lot of lettering carved in this project and that will be the video lesson for the next […]
Carving a Scroll on a Chair
Last week I put a new video up on my online school on carving a scroll design for the “Angry Swan” chair. I wrote a blog post about this chair back while I was working on it. I now have a video lesson on carving the “angry swan” and also carving the scroll that […]