Wonderful online school you've got here! I was wondering if you've ever heard of two cherries brand tools and what your thoughts are about them? The reviews are hit and miss but the price is in line with that of Pfeil so I thought I would try here. This question really goes out to anyone who may have purchased or used this brand.
Hello Thomas,
I am familiar with "two cherries" tools, but I do not have many. When I have had a chance to use them (students bring them to class on occasion), they seemed like good quality tools, and have not heard anything negative.
Hope this helps. Glad you're enjoying the online school!
Thanks so much for making these videos! Clamping something seems rather obvious until you actually try to do it; especially with your examples of the odd shapes. The creative clamping ideas are a tremendous help. One of the main points that came across to me with this video was to take time to plan ahead.
I am one of those people who doesn't have a "real" vise or bench at the moment. When I was young, the electronic guts were removed from two old wooden Television cabinets, and these cabinets became "desks" for my brother and I - our version of a "PlayStation". 🙂 Now they serve as the base for my bench and are topped by a 5' x 5' piece of 1-1/2" thick "core" board (particle board) with a heavy white oak veneer (from a local furniture company) as a work surface.
The particle board overhangs the cabinets, and I use that to best advantage by laying scrap 2x or 4x lumber along an edge and clamping it to the overhang. That way, I can lay workpieces alongside the scrap and clamp them to either side of the lumber so that the work piece can rest on the "benchtop" or hang alongside it. More creatively, multiple or shaped pieces of lumber can be used, or the lumber can extend off the end of the benchtop at one of the corners as long the lumber used is stiff enough to keep the workpiece solid.
Hi William,
I first started carving with a workbench in my bedroom - just a plain bench-top with no fancy vices. You become VERY creative in how to hold your work safely so it does not slip.
I think that really shows how much you love your craft!
Although, sleeping and waking up to the smell of freshly cut wood... that sounds like a great idea! It makes me think about camping, but with the luxuries of home. I might have to try that, if I can get away with it... I don't know, I may wind up sleeping out in the wood shop. lol
Mary, is there a name for carving the rays like this, where the line between the rays is the high point, and the type of carving where the high point is the middle of the ray and the lines between them are the low point?
I refer to them as "concave" (hollowed or scooped rays) rays and "convex" (raised or rounded over) rays. I'm not sure of the "official" name, however. Works for me!
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