Last week I taught a 5-day Introduction to Relief Carving class at Marc Adams School of Woodworking. It was a full class of 18 students, and we worked through several beginning projects and progressing to quite challenging carvings. Everyone persevered and really did an amazing job. As one student commented “You really brought me out […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Marc Adams Fundamentals of Woodworking Class
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 […]
Class space still available!
I have several beginning carving classes coming up that still have spaces available. Come join us! May 2 – 4, Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking I will be teaching a class on the Fundamentals of Furniture Carving. This is a beginning class where I will go over the basics of relief carving – acanthus leaf, shell […]