I am experiencing the lull after the storm. A wonderful and energetic weekend at WIA in Winston-Salem – seeing a lot of friends and meeting new ones. And now I’m trying to settle in again. It’s sad that I probably won’t see many of these people again until next WIA. I drove the 5 hour […]
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WIA – Winston-Salem, NC
Woodworking in America, 2014, has come to a close (at least for me). Tomorrow several tours are scheduled, which I won’t be able to attend – MESDA (Museum of Southern Decorative Arts) , the Blum house, and the Single Brother’s House – all part of Old Salem, a beautiful traditional Moravian village. I’ll be heading home tomorrow […]
Woodworking in America – Ready or Not!
Tomorrow I head off to Winsten-Salem, NC for the yearly festivities of Woodworking in America. I will not be teaching workshops as I have for the last 2 years, but will have a booth set up in their marketplace. Come by to visit and see how to get a 15% WIA discount for my online school […]
New Video on Carving a Simple Leaf
I recently added another video to the FREE part of my online school (Beginning Carving Projects) and also on my Youtube channel. It is on carving and shaping a basic leaf in mahogany. The video is a beginning video, discussing how to hold tools, how to make basic cuts, how to work with the grain, and how […]
Fun with grain… Carving a fleur-de-lis, again
I still continue to learn every time I pick up a carving gouge … and this time is no exception. I recently made another video lesson for my online school. It is a much simpler Fleur-de-Lis. What is interesting about this lesson is that I ended up carving 2 of them – with the grain going in […]
Adventures in Maine
Last weekend I taught a very busy and successful weekend workshop at Lie-Nielsen Toolworks in beautiful Warren, Maine. It was a beginning class and we covered a lot of basic instruction. We carved an apple in relief as a beginning carving project that focuses on working in the correct grain direction. I try to vary that […]