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 […]
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SAPFM Talk/Demo on Carving an Acanthus Leaf on a Cabriole Leg
Last weekend while I was in Manchester, CT teaching a beginning class at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. While I was there, I also did a demo/talk for the Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM) on Saturday evening. About 25 people were there. The talk was filmed with a camera that sort of had a […]
Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking Class
Last weekend I taught a 3-day beginning carving class at Bob Van Dyck’s school in Manchester, CT – Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. It was a fun class and everybody did great. Here are some photos… I’m scheduled to teach another class there in November (sounds like a great time of year to go to […]
Adventures with Solvents and Double-Sided Tape
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 […]
Letter carving for a memorial sign
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 […]
New FREE Video on Carving a Fleur De Lis
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 […]