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• Playing Around with Carving #10: Best Lighing for Carving - 621 days ago | 14 comments

  So far, I have been carving outside on my patio and the lighting is great. I’m anticipatin...

• Playing Around with Carving #9: Just Kicking Around today - 650 days ago | 18 comments

  I roughed out another spoon today. I was trying a different handle shape to get a feel for it. ...

• Playing Around with Carving #8: Mads Inspired Spoon Horse - 653 days ago | 22 comments

  I’ve been playing with spoon carving and thinking that being able to use a spokeshave and d...

• Playing Around with Carving #7: Putting my carving fixture to work - 657 days ago | 6 comments

  I’m participating in Spoontaneous’s Spoon Carving class and spent some time roughing ...

• Playing Around with Carving #6: Finished my carving fixture - 664 days ago | 10 comments

  I got my carving fixture completed today. Now I should be able to make some more progress on the...

• Shop Tools #13: My Latest Power Tool - 665 days ago | 37 comments

  The power tool for Rodent Control – The Rat Zapper Ultra…. I know, I k...

• Handplane Restoration #30: English Wooden Chamfer Plane - 688 days ago | 24 comments

  This is a recent eBay purchase. I am posting this for Mads. He would like to make one and requ...

• Playing Around with Carving #5: Fixture to hold work for Relief Carving. - 695 days ago | 14 comments

  I am thinking of making a wooden fixture to hold the work piece when doing relief carving. I am ...

• Playing Around with Carving #4: Carving Class - 698 days ago | 22 comments

  Today I took an introduction to relief carving class at the local Woodcraft store. The class was...

• Hand Saws #1: 15" Bow Saw - 703 days ago | 17 comments

  I recieved this saw in the mail today. It is 25” wide overal and about 14” of expos...

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