Hi Mary,
I enjoyed the discription of tools and thier uses. Being new to carving and not having put metal to wood as yet for a project to be proud of, I am glad that I found your web site. Do you offer classes at your location or just on a circuit around the country? The on-line classes will be great I'm sure, just looking for a bit of encouragement as I go.
Thanks
Jeff
Yes I offer individual classes at my workshop in Charleston, SC. Quite a few people come to Charleston for a vacation (let their significant other go shopping) and they spend a day or 2 in my shop going over a few projects and refining their carving techniques. Contact me in the "contact" form and we can set up a time.
Hi Mary,
I enjoyed the discription of tools and thier uses. Being new to carving and not having put metal to wood as yet for a project to be proud of, I am glad that I found your web site. Do you offer classes at your location or just on a circuit around the country? The on-line classes will be great I'm sure, just looking for a bit of encouragement as I go.
Thanks
Jeff
Yes I offer individual classes at my workshop in Charleston, SC. Quite a few people come to Charleston for a vacation (let their significant other go shopping) and they spend a day or 2 in my shop going over a few projects and refining their carving techniques. Contact me in the "contact" form and we can set up a time.
I'm starting it today. I'm using a different pattern but will follow Mary's techniques because I am using all my carvings from this site for pine needle basket starts. I'll post the first finished one--the camellia--in the gallery today.
We live near forest lands. Driving through the lands in early spring often finds the dogwoods absolutely enchanting. The limbs of dogwood trees are so thin and wispy that they almost disappear into the busy background of all the rest of the forest. That leaves hundreds upon hundreds of white flowers seemingly floating in space.
Go closer and find that every flower is similar but unique, curling and twisting in its own way.
THANKS for showing how to carve some of those variations!
Bob, I'm sure you will enjoy the challenge of carving a dogwood flower. There are no rules! They can go any direction and any shape. Just have fun with it and see where it goes!
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