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Category Archives: classes
Elia’s Class Complete
Last Saturday, Elia Bizzarri and I finished up our live online bowl carving class with the third session, resulting in over 9 hours of bowl carving instruction. The sessions follow the process, step-by-step from a half log. My resulting sample … Continue reading
Posted in classes, finding wood, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged bowl carving class, bowl carving instruction, bowl carving video, Elia Bizzarri
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Online Bowl Class with Elia Bizzarri and Me
The first time I saw Elia Bizzarri was on an episode of Roy Underhill’s The Woodwright’s Shop. Elia learned chairmaking from some of the finest craftsmen out there, including Dave Sawyer and Curtis Buchanan, and he makes beautiful, enduring chairs. … Continue reading
Täljfest 2019
In my lectures at both Spoonfest and Täljfest, I referred to an excerpt from Mary Oliver’s poem Sometimes: Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Astonishment comes easy at Sätergläntan, the traditional crafts school in … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, green woodworking, historical reference, paint, shrink box, sketch, Uncategorized
Tagged Saterglantan, Taljfest
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Spoonfest 2019
I’m back from my first ever overseas adventure, and it was a thrilling and enriching one. The English countryside, London, Stockholm, and the Swedish countryside. Almost a week after my return, my head is still spinning with all I saw … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, green woodworking, historical reference, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Edale, London, Peak District, Spoonfest
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Questions from Buzzards Bay
Who was that masked man? That’s just one of the questions I’ve been pondering since my return from a week in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. As I looked through some photos from two bowl carving classes and the “Spoon Day” event … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, Persons, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged bowl carving, Buzzards Bay, Plymouth Craft, Spoon Day
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Spoonfest and Täljfest, Summer 2019
In between other projects, I was able to spend some time roughing some spoons from a bunch of crooks I’ve gathered this winter. I already mentioned that I’ll be doing some of that at the Plymouth CRAFT’s big Spoon Day … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, spoons, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged spoon carving, Spoonfest, Taljfest
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Icy River Walk
I like walking along the river near my house, really more of a creek. The ebb and flow of the water and the seasons always brings something new to see. As the water level receded last weekend, ice ornaments sparkled … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, nature, spoons, Uncategorized
Tagged ice formations, river walk
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Tampa BowlMates
Last weekend’s Fine Woodworking Hands-On event in Tampa was a rich experience. Never having been to Florida, it was a bit surreal for me; temperatures in the upper 70s in February, palm trees, a manatee…like another world. Kate Swann, Carl … Continue reading
Posted in classes, events, holding, Uncategorized
Tagged bowl carving, Florida School of Woodwork
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Travels
Travelers in Hilly Countryside (c. 1650), Aelbert Cuyp Image courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art Later this week, I’ll be leading my donkey to Tampa for Fine Woodworking Magazine’s Hands On event. Kate Swann and her crew down at the … Continue reading
Florida in February
If you want to drop in for three days at the Florida School of Woodworking in Tampa, I’ll be teaching a bowl carving class there as part of Fine Woodworking’s Hands On Tampa event February 1-3, 2019. I’ve never spent … Continue reading