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Commercial construction superintendent. Woodworker, wantabe full time woodcarver.
-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"
| commented on | Large chip carving | 9 hours ago |
| commented on | Shop Skills #7: Cutting Small Pieces on the Compound Miter Saw | 2 days ago |
| commented on | Classic Smoothing Plane | 28 days ago |
| commented on | I Am NOT Ready For This | 30 days ago |
| commented on | Wedding plate | 33 days ago |
| commented on | 17 Foot Dining Room Table #2: Pedestals done | 76 days ago |
| commented on | Large chip carving | 88 days ago |
| commented on | A Sam Maloof Inspired Rocking Chair; Walnut Rocker #2 by Mark A. DeCou | 93 days ago |
| commented on | Large chip carving | 94 days ago |
| commented on | Large chip carving | 95 days ago |
| commented on | Large chip carving | 96 days ago |
| added project | Large chip carving | 96 days ago |
| commented on | Decorated Plate | 110 days ago |
| commented on | Coasters | 110 days ago |
| commented on | 2009 large chip carving #1: First phase of the carving | 115 days ago |
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Some of you may have remembered me from the past, I do chip carving on woodworking items. Every year I try and make one large chip carving for the carving shows and this year is no exception. I started this project in Apr and am just finishing the...
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Well it has been a long road but I finally can see the end. Now all that is left is meeting up with the picture owner and installing the picture at his place. I will try and get pictures of the picture in the frame. Sometimes the cu...
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This weekend I managed to finish the chip carving on the frame. I dry fitted the frame to make sure the corners carvings would all line up together. As you can see I carved the frame unassembled because of its overall size. ...
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Finally back with the next steps in this project. Chip carving relies heavily on shadows so when designing the frame profile I had to make sure that the angle of the frame wasn’t to much or to little other wise the carvings won’t show ...
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In this blog I thought you lumberjocks would be interested in seeing the whole process that I go thru when doing this picture frame commission. This is the picture that the owner wanted a carved frame for. As you can see by the photo the pictur...
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Karson
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25274 posts in 1279 days
posted 1003 days ago
CarverRog. Congratulations on your first place.
-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †
Bill
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2562 posts in 1040 days
posted 980 days ago
Welcome Aboard Carver. Keep up the good work.
-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com
Obi
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2191 posts in 1115 days
posted 977 days ago
Quit your day job. Step out in faith. Your work is good enough that you can do it full time. YOU ARE MICHELANGELO!
Michelangelo did NOT paint houses for a living
-- http://ye-olde-cabinet-shoppe.com/
Roger Strautman
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534 posts in 1012 days
posted 977 days ago
Thank you Obi. I would really like to and I am starting to do some work for a cabinet company.
-- " All Things At First Appear Difficult"
oscorner
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posted 967 days ago
You do excellent work. Have any shop pictures you care to share?
-- Jesus is Lord!