• From Gary Renfroe on All About Gouges

    Mary
    Some years ago I aquired a box of chisels at a estate sale. My primary interest was the Japanese woodworking chisels but I had to buy the whole box which contained 40 carving chisels most which still had red wax on the cutting edge. They were german made with a picture of a screw on them and were not polished. I believe they are Dastra (sp?). I have had them for numerous years and only used a few of them for texturing. Now the question is now that I have found a carving teacher that I can afford I plan to try your program - However the numbers for the sweeps on these tools do not correspond to your descriptions. The number close to a 3 is like 17 and the fishtails with similar sweeps have different number. I tried matching the sweeps to you chart and nothing is quite the same. Is there some sort of math conversion? -
    By the way I paid $60.00 for the box which included four woodworking chisels and a few chip carving knives.

    Thanks for what you do.

    Gary

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    2014/04/22 at 3:10 pm
    • From Mary May on All About Gouges

      $60 for the box of 40 Dastra carving chisels? Since they now run about $40 to $60 each, I'd say you got the deal of a lifetime. I am jealous! I am not sure how Dastra used to number their tools, but sometimes the older tools have the first number refer to the actual tool shape (such as straight, fishtail, spoon bent, backbent, etc), so the "1" in the "17" may refer to that, and the second number would most likely refer to the curvature - probably NOT the width. Then you might find that another number (let's say "2" for example) might refer to fishtails (so it would be labelled #27 for a #7 fishtail). Not sure why something that looks like a #3 has a number 7 on it, however. It looks like you're going to just have to play around with them and match the curvatures to the chart.

      Enjoy learning how to use your "new" tools.

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      2014/04/22 at 7:57 pm
      • From Gary Renfroe on All About Gouges

        Thanks for the information. I guess I will have to adjust = or in the famous words of Mary May = Make do with with you got.

        Gary

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        2014/04/22 at 8:21 pm
  • From Gary Renfroe on All About Gouges - Beginner Lesson #3

    Mary
    Some years ago I aquired a box of chisels at a estate sale. My primary interest was the Japanese woodworking chisels but I had to buy the whole box which contained 40 carving chisels most which still had red wax on the cutting edge. They were german made with a picture of a screw on them and were not polished. I believe they are Dastra (sp?). I have had them for numerous years and only used a few of them for texturing. Now the question is now that I have found a carving teacher that I can afford I plan to try your program - However the numbers for the sweeps on these tools do not correspond to your descriptions. The number close to a 3 is like 17 and the fishtails with similar sweeps have different number. I tried matching the sweeps to you chart and nothing is quite the same. Is there some sort of math conversion? -
    By the way I paid $60.00 for the box which included four woodworking chisels and a few chip carving knives.

    Thanks for what you do.

    Gary

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    2014/04/22 at 3:10 pm
    • From Mary May on All About Gouges - Beginner Lesson #3

      $60 for the box of 40 Dastra carving chisels? Since they now run about $40 to $60 each, I'd say you got the deal of a lifetime. I am jealous! I am not sure how Dastra used to number their tools, but sometimes the older tools have the first number refer to the actual tool shape (such as straight, fishtail, spoon bent, backbent, etc), so the "1" in the "17" may refer to that, and the second number would most likely refer to the curvature - probably NOT the width. Then you might find that another number (let's say "2" for example) might refer to fishtails (so it would be labelled #27 for a #7 fishtail). Not sure why something that looks like a #3 has a number 7 on it, however. It looks like you're going to just have to play around with them and match the curvatures to the chart.

      Enjoy learning how to use your "new" tools.

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      2014/04/22 at 7:57 pm
  • From Neill Graham on Carving a Cardinal "In the Round" - Episode 1

    It took me 20 minutes to download 1.435 GB in three files called Cardinal-ep1-hd.mp4 (525MB), Cardinal-ep2-hd.mp4 (555MB) and Cardinal-ep3-hd.mp4 (355MB). I used the right click, save target as... and save method to download each file to my computer. Plays well on RealPlayer Cloud.

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    2014/04/18 at 2:25 pm
  • From Gwyl Blaser on Carving a Cardinal "In the Round" - Episode 1

    I have been able to watch the complete video with no problems.

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    2014/04/10 at 8:35 am
    • From Bob Easton on Carving a Cardinal "In the Round" - Episode 1

      Thanks for the update Gwyl.

      Michael's difficulty was his service comes through a satellite in a remote part of the world. The service was too slow for the HD versions of the videos. He dropped back to the SD versions and all is working.

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      2014/04/10 at 12:10 pm
  • From James Wilson on Workshop Tour - Beginner Lesson #16

    Hi Mary,

    After seeing your appearance on The Woodwright's Shop, I had to check out your videos. Love them, thanks! I lived in Chareston also for about 7 years, not too long ago, when I was in the Navy. I just wish I'd have become interestedn carving then, I would definitely have loved a day at your shop! Not to mention the Lie-Nielson event last week.

    Thanks again,
    Ryan

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    2014/04/06 at 5:30 am