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• Large picture frame commission #2: Carving completed - 181 days ago | 17 comments

  This weekend I managed to finish the chip carving on the frame. I dry fitted the frame to make su...

• Large picture frame commission #1: Making carving samples and the frame. - 183 days ago | 12 comments

  Finally back with the next steps in this project. Chip carving relies heavily on shadows so when ...

• Large picture frame commission. - 241 days ago | 8 comments

  In this blog I thought you lumberjocks would be interested in seeing the whole process that I go ...

• Major house remodel! #4: Final pictures of remodel - 406 days ago | 8 comments

  Sorry about being so late with the remainder of the pictures. I just had to show y...

• Acanthus carvings #3: Acanthus carving completed. - 425 days ago | 7 comments

  Push goes to shove and then you have a completed project!!!! If you look closely you can see t...

• Acanthus carvings #2: Getting closer with 11 hours down. - 427 days ago | 5 comments

  I’m getting closer with this project. These pictures are between the 5 hrs. and 11 hrs. tim...

• Acanthus carvings #1: First 5 hours. - 431 days ago | 8 comments

  There was some interest in me bloging another carving and it happens to be a couple of acanthus c...

• Coat of Arms commission #4: Another fine job completed!! - 437 days ago | 19 comments

  I finally completed the carving. I talked the customer into leaving the carving marks instead of ...

• Major house remodel! #3: The strom is over now lets see if we can put it together! - 451 days ago | 8 comments

  Day two was a little left over framing and then day three was a total roof job on both new and ex...

• Major house remodel! #2: The Storm has arrived! - 452 days ago | 5 comments

  Well, MsDebbi was right I’m raising the roof line up 2’ in the living area. I was...

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