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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Boxwood Blunder
This is the closest I’ve come to working in clay. Over the winter, I was asked to design and carve a pottery chop, a.k.a. pottery stamp, featuring the ABS initials of the ceramic artist. I had even been supplied with … Continue reading
Posted in finding wood, Lettering, trees, Uncategorized
Tagged boxwood carving, carved pottery stamp, pottery chop
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Finding Follansbee
Several years ago, as I walked around Plimoth Plantation with Peter Follansbee and his peanut butter and jelly sandwich (it was his lunch break), I realized this was not your average dude. I had been blown away by the work and … Continue reading
Making Things from Trees
Not long ago, this book arrived in the mail, an unexpected and thoughtful gift from a friend. In it, Robert Penn writes of his experience of felling one ash tree in Herefordshire and having as many things made from … Continue reading
Posted in books, finding wood, green woodworking, nature, quotes and excerpts, trees, Uncategorized, walnut
Tagged Robert Penn
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Getting Started
For those interested in starting to carve bowls and spoons from green wood, the unfamiliarity and variety of the tools can be a little intimidating and confusing, especially when they see the large kits built up over many years by … Continue reading
Posted in adze, axe, carving, green woodworking, tools, Uncategorized
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