Learning wood carving online
Hi Freinds I’ve had some long-term projects that have been sitting on a shelf for a long time and I decided to get them down and try and complete them.The reason I’ve put off completing these projects is they have lots of carving on them and...
New Carving Tools
With Christmas arriving and the new year imminent i have received a £20 gift that I am thinking of spending on improving my carving kit ready to kick off the new year. My current kit is a bit hit and miss with some gouges, chisels and V tools...
New To Woodwork
Hi, I’m new to wood work and I’m currently learning all about wood carving. I have been out and done a little bit of hedgelaying and I my start to wood carving was sparked by a friend offering to teach me how to use a set of chisels I rescued...
New member intro
Been woodworking of some kind or another for 50 or more years, since Juniour high school wood shop. After retiring, spend way too much time in my shop everyday, enjoying every minute. Keeps me out of my wife’s hair. Bought my CNC router as a...
Gloating, Again
I live well away from civilization, so garage sales are rare. Usually, what we do have aren’t worth hitting, though you do come across the occasional gem. Last week, a family was clearing out their pop’s garage, in anticipation of moving him...
New to site
I’m a paper maker by trade. I’ve just turned 50 and have started woodworking again after a 20 year break while raising my 3 children. I hope to gain some useful information from this site. My main interest are shaker style furniture and...
new to site
Hi. Ive just joined on here the other day. Im a former marine and volunteer firefighter/emt. I got started carving a few years ago. Gun carving got me started and i keep expanding out of multiple interests. I now do to many different types of...
History: Capturing the Culture of the Times
Doing a scan of images for woodworking in history, I came across this one posted on wiki (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wood_carving) … and I thought about how not only sculptures but furnishings and all things that we...
New to me tools from Bali
My sister went on a trip to Singapore & Bali and she went to a carving market in Bali and bought these beautiful tools from a craftsman on the street. #mysisteristhebest👍🏾🤓
Introduction
My fascination with wood started about 65 year back with my great grandmother’s lion head rocking chair. I love a challenge and have been turning now on my ShopSmith for just over two years. Our 30+ year old house I built all the cabinets and...
leather chaps?
Does anybody wear leather chaps for carving? Biker or western, just to save some wear and tear on jeans and maybe a little protection from tools of the trade and moving logs around? What are your thoughts?
Been 5+ years....
Just received Martin’s note the other day. I haven’t posted in a long time… Business has never slowed down, and I was trapped in making the chess sets for so long I never had the chance to keep up on any of the wood sites. To say I was burned...
workshop decor/showroom
Im building a 30×25 pole building workshop soon. It will have a dirt floor for now but im thinking of adding a small spray booth and possibly a little desk area. I do chainsaw carvings. A lot of log names signs and getting into statues and log...
Guinevere versus foredom
I have a foredom flex shaft carving tool that is 25 years old and needs to be updated. I have been very satisfied with it. I saw an ad online for a Guinevere flex finisher that looked interesting. Anybody have an opinion?
Need pointers on tools
Hi folks! My name is Doug (although it says Ronnie). I am a noob to all this save for whittling when I was in boy scouts (yes, I got my eagle scout badge). Anyway, I’m looking for advice on chisel and carvers. I also want a rotary tool. I am...
[Finally] Made My Caver Portable and Storable
I bought this caver on a maple butcher block counter top, which weighed in at around one hundred pounds or so. Add the carver and a base and the entire thing weighed in around a couple hundred pounds. Obviously, it wasn’t very portable. I...
One in a thousand
Hiya all. This is such a great site. It’s so easy to post your work, discuss things in a forum, or create a blog of a project you are working on. The best part is being able to view others work and make comments ask questions, or offer help. This...
Introduction
Hello everyone, my name is Suzanne and I own and operate a small woodworking business from home in Cornwall, ON Canada. I design and create complete projects for CNC routers and the Carvewright machine that include all the patterns, photos and...
