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Carving with Kids
Ten years ago, when my son was six, I gave him a pocketknife. My wife thought this was stupid. Within a day, I was with him at the emergency room watching him get stitches in his finger. This was rough, … Continue reading
Do You have an Outie or an Innie?
I have some general information on tool selection here at my website, but I’d like to focus more specifically on the adze in this post. It is probably the single most expensive tool used for this work, so it pays to choose … Continue reading
What’s a saz?
That was my first thought when I was asked recently to make one; well, the bowl part of one. Turns out that a saz is a long necked Turkish lute (I found the photo of the one above — I had … Continue reading
Prepare to Pare
I was paring the interior of a cherry bowl recently. Whenever I perform this operation, I hold the gouge in an unorthodox carving grip, reminiscent of a scene from Psycho or Julius Caesar. This allows me to register my thumb against … Continue reading