945 days ago
by Ethan |
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When I first started getting into woodworking, Pops showed me his two carving mallets. One was made from Osage Orange and one was a heavier, denser, more oily wood. He didn’t know what it was, but he said if I ever came across one to pick it up because they were pretty hard to come by.
It didn’t take me much research to figure out Pops had a Lignum Vitae mallet in his possession. So I started looking into finding one. An extensive search found very few places that sold them...
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960 days ago
by Roger Strautman |
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I thought that some of you LJs might be interested in seeing a carving project come together from start to finish so this years large carving project I will bolg for you. Keep in mind that this just doesn’t happen over night so this will happen over the next couple of months.
Every now and then I can come up with an idea of my own, The Shroud, but I also will use pictures and modify them to my needs. This year I chose to use a picture for my large carving of the year. Now this might ...
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961 days ago
by MsDebbieP |
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Thanks to Martin and his magic shuffle button my need to multi-task has taken on a new urgency.
Today as I sat here, caught in the trap of the LJ Addiction, I also contemplated how I was going to put a few pieces of willow together for a box – and what purpose it would have. I decided that I would just have to go cut the wood and glue it together whatever way would fit and it would become a “just is” box, for whatever purpose it might have in the future.
After getting ...
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994 days ago
by scottb |
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Having successfully burned out my Dremel, I went for the cordless drill as well as my chisels. Judging by the amount of wood i still had to go through, I’d have likely killed another dremel in the process! I guess they are made for lots of different jobs, not so much hogging off wood for extended periods. I’ll definately be looking into those carving tools Dick suggested.
Didn’t take too long to get all three legs liberated from each other, was tricky with the “can...
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