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Thanks a million Mary! The part finishing the center with the little fuzzy 's sticking up and coming in from the side cleared a big problem up that I've been experiencing.
Thanks again
Dave Richardson

The linen fold project is by far the most conceptual challange I have faced so far. Visualizing the turns and curves are difficult for me at this time. I am taking in slow and reviewing your video often.

As a beginning carver I really appreciate your attention to detail and the patience of your showing each step with no skipping ahead. Great video!

Very cool project, I've been waiting to see this one ever since you first blogged about it!

I had thought these first stages would be less instructive than I found them to be, I actually learned quite a bit. I am starting to 'get' this whole carving thing, even though my attempts at it still carry the look of the rank amateur, and I find when I really pay attention to what you are doing, I see you really pack a lot of teaching just in showing how you go about the carving. Issues of grain direction and tool usage, but, even more, subtle things like leaving wood to later have the leaf exposed over the neck, and even in roughing out how you leave layers so that they appear to connect 'through' the wood to look so much like they meet up on the other side.

It's the insights you silently show in your deft tool handling, as much as or even more than the points you talk about, that make your videos such a great learning experience.

Thank you so much, can't wait to see further chapters on this project!

Perfect timing on this - I'm doing more sign work these days, and this is really nice to see done rather than reading about it.