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Thank you for a great video!

Excellent, Mary!
I especially liked the repair.
Minor suggestion: can the camera be a little further back so we can see your wrist motion as you carve. I, for one, would learn a lot from that.

Yet another example of a shell and acanthus design: https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/picture-this-x/

Too garish for my taste, yet shows the idea is pervasive.

About the project itself, thanks!

I see variations of this theme very frequently. Watching the background in a TV program a few evenings ago, I saw the acanthus-shell-acanthus on a fireplace surround. They're everywhere in many different interpretations.

Thanks for showing how to do one of your interpretations. ...and competently doing it quickly because "it needs to be finished this afternoon."

Sometime in the recent past you've added a second camera and improved the lighting. Both changes bring us more light, clarity and detail. Great improvements! Thank you.

Seeing you use a gouge to cut curvatures different than its exact sweep is very helpful. Too often, we think we need a precise size and curvature and don't have that exact tool. Learning how to use other gouges as substitutes really helps keep tool costs reasonable. (But, one can never have too many gouges. Right?)