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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Your Daily Bowl
I’m a cereal lover and, although I’ve had to switch from Boo-Berry to Shredded Wheat over the years, I still eat cereal every day — from a wooden bowl. Cereal or not, it makes for quiet eating, and the wood … Continue reading
Posted in bowls, cherry, holding, layout, patterns, sketch, Uncategorized
Tagged cereal bowl, fluted bowl
17 Comments
Wander to Wonder
I guess I can’t get Tolkien’s words out of my mind. This is the second time in a few months that I’ve carved the same line onto a bowl: “Not all those who wander are lost.” I wrote a post about … Continue reading
The Infant of the Sword
“I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one’s pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to … Continue reading
Posted in carving, Lettering, tools, Uncategorized
Tagged Boker knives, Boker Whittler, Case knives, Flexcut, pocket knife, Queen Cutlery
7 Comments
Bring Your Adze
Just a quick post to say that a spot has opened up in my pre-Fest bowl carving class in Plymouth. It’s only three weeks away. If you can squeeze it in, we’ll have a blast making some chips fly together! … Continue reading
Posted in sketch, teaching, tools, Uncategorized
5 Comments
Hold It!
I snapped this photo while carving on this cherry bowl recently. I’ve used holdfasts for a long while now, but I still marvel at their nimbleness and versatility. With a scrap of rubber belting under the bottom and a couple … Continue reading
Posted in bowls, cherry, holding, patterns, Uncategorized
Tagged cherry bowl, ratchet strap, saw buck
10 Comments
Framed
I recently had the opportunity to play a part in a very special occasion, the celebration of fifty years of marriage. The family had decided to honor the occasion with a lovely painting of the family tree by one of the … Continue reading
Posted in holding, layout, Lettering, sketch, Uncategorized
Tagged anniversary frame, drawing board
15 Comments