odds and ends

Cool stuff; very imaginative.

-- Clint Searl.............We deserve what we tolerate

Your vision and technique is as strong as ever with this new group. The cedar piece tells me of a spoon-full of tomato soup that I had years ago, a topographical map of the wonder of wood. The cat’s a delightful pun. Don’t ever sail away on us.

-- gene@toronto.ontario.canada : dovetail free since '53, critiques always welcome.

Like the old saying goes: “Far-Out”

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

I like them all, this shows you let the wood speak to you and let you know how it wanted to be presented, or maybe that’s just my wood, or all the voices in my head, KEEP I DOWN GUYS I’M TRYING TO TYPE! ha ha ha
All of them are very nicely done

-- Martin ....always count the number of fingers you have before, and after using the saw.

I like everyone of these. You are quite imaginative and show a lot of creativity.

helluvawreck aka Charles
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Nice work, Terry, looks like you’ve been having fun! Wow, I love the spalted macadamia, and the maple burl with live edge…I’m a sucker for live edge work.

Yep, that one spoon looks like cocobolo…tons of yellow…what sort of finish did you get to stick to that cocobolo? Hey, what brand of dye did you use on Blue? Love that shade of blue with the gold leaf…beautiful!!!!!!

Please keep ‘em coming…...

-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

Great work Terry. I love them all! I especially like the blue one! Keep them coming! RH

-- Roman:... there are no mistakes, just opportunities for a design change!

brilliant – and that boat!! the detail in the carving :D

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

A person must master a craft to be a great artist. You certainly have mastered yours! This is great ART. I do hope you are getting good exposure for your work beyond lumberjocks….......I think you could market the boat!

-- steve...e-mail-themantelshop@hotmail.com........remember,the best teacher is repetition.

Each one of your pieces would do well in an art gallery. You should bring them to a high end gallery and see if they want to sell them there. They would be wasted at crafts shows- unless they were artsy/craftsy shows. How are you marketing them?

-- "So much wood. . .so little time!" www.woodworks-by-donna.com

I like the odds and ends.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Hey.. thanks for the comments. I appreciate reading them when I come home.

Terry.. I just rubbed on a couple of coats of Waterlox Original… and that seems to be working. I made another spoon from the same wood and finished with mineral oil and wax… and it seems to be alright… just a bit duller.

Donna… Thanks, you are kind. I mostly just sell them on Etsy.com A few here and there. Some go overseas which is kind of fun. I did one art show back in Feb. Sold 16 spoons there. I probably need to expand beyond wooden spoons as that is such a small niche.

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

Fantastic carvings

-- Cad a dheanfaimid feasta gan adhmad.......?

the spoons are lovely, but that face is totally wild & wacky & i adore it.

-- We call the destruction of replaceable human made items vandalism, while the destruction of irreplaceable natural resources is called development.

You seem to be one of the fortunate few who actually succeed in selling quite a few items at reasonable prices on Etsy. Too many times I see people trying to sell things there for hardly more than the value of the wood. So many people have found it not worthwhile to list their wood crafts there. I’m encouraged to see someone succeeding. It tells me that there are some buyers with discriminating tastes on that site.
Anybody else having success on a public internet site?

-- "So much wood. . .so little time!" www.woodworks-by-donna.com