| This blog is written by Roger Strautman | 26 entries so far |
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2009 large chip carving #1: First phase of the carving
Some of you may have remembered me from the past, I do chip carving on woodworking items. Every y...
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Large picture frame commission #3: Completed
Well it has been a long road but I finally can see the end. Now all that is left is meeting up wi...
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Large picture frame commission #2: Carving completed
This weekend I managed to finish the chip carving on the frame. I dry fitted the frame to make su...
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Large picture frame commission #1: Making carving samples and the frame.
Finally back with the next steps in this project. Chip carving relies heavily on shadows so when ...
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Large picture frame commission.
In this blog I thought you lumberjocks would be interested in seeing the whole process that I go ...
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Final pictures of remodel
Sorry about being so late with the remainder of the pictures. I just had to show y...
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Acanthus carvings #3: Acanthus carving completed.
Push goes to shove and then you have a completed project!!!! If you look closely you can see t...
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Acanthus carvings #2: Getting closer with 11 hours down.
I’m getting closer with this project. These pictures are between the 5 hrs. and 11 hrs. tim...
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Acanthus carvings #1: First 5 hours.
There was some interest in me bloging another carving and it happens to be a couple of acanthus c...
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Coat of Arms commission #4: Another fine job completed!!
I finally completed the carving. I talked the customer into leaving the carving marks instead of ...
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The strom is over now lets see if we can put it together!
Day two was a little left over framing and then day three was a total roof job on both new and ex...
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The Storm has arrived!
Well, MsDebbi was right I’m raising the roof line up 2’ in the living area. I was...
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The calm before the remodeling storm!
Ok, I think this is going to be a real eye opener for those of you who have never lived in a hous...
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Coat of Arms commission #3: 21 hours of carving.
I never gave it the thought of showing you what they gave me to carve from. This picture was as m...
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Coat of Arms commission #2: 10 Hours now.
These pictures are of a few stages in the next 6 hours of carving. Because the map...
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Coat of Arms commission #1: 4 hours of work.
My 2007 big carving project was put on hold due to and Coat of Arms commission so I’m going...
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Kitchen cabinet columns
I had a local cabinet company that wanted me to make them 58”L. columns to match the ones t...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #1 #4: Completed!!!
As you can see by the new projects I made it to the end of a very satisfying project.. I thoug...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #1 #3: Getting closer!
I’m now down the home stretch and getting ever closer to the finish line. I will say this I...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #1 #2: Metamorphosis #1 completed.
Well, I’m in the final stages of this challenge finally. As you can see this table did make...
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My 2007 large carving project. #2: Roughout and Pictures.
After I get the idea from a picture and the drawings are done it’s time for the roughtout o...
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My 2007 large carving project. #1: Getting an idea.
I thought that some of you LJs might be interested in seeing a carving project come together from...
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Thorsen Side Table Challenge #1 #1: Metamorphosis to come.
This past week I was able to get a good start on this wonderful challenge of creativity and woodw...
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What names do you call your workshop or a specail tool?
OK, I think it is pretty safe to say that most of us at one time or another have named our worksh...
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Thank you to all!
I was just as surprised as Mark was to get a Lumberjocks tee shirt but with Best Creativity Winne...
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Add a little decoration to your woodworking project.
As you can tell by my screen name I’m a woodcarver but not just any kind of woodcarver, a c...
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