Next week, June 1 – 5, I will be teaching “The Joy of Woodcarving” Class at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking. The weather is going to be a lot nicer than when I was there earlier this year 🙂 There are still a few spaces available. Time is running out to sign up! […]
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Transferring Patterns onto Light and Dark Wood
Have you ever had trouble seeing the lines of your design on the wood? Often with lighter colored wood such as basswood, pencil lines show up clearly. If you have transferred a template to your wood with carbon paper, this also shows up well on lighter colored wood. The carbon paper can be purchased at office supply […]
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 […]
New Letter Carving Video – “R” and “S”

There have been quite a few requests for a video on letter carving to be included in my online woodcarving school. I am happy to announce that I finally have this completed and it is up on the site. I also have a fancy new camera so I can film from 2 camera angles so […]