Carving
I’ve been chatting recently with my sister about what one might do with 200-odd left-over roof slates, how she might engrave, decorate, and otherwise use them in a crafty capacity. Since I have a rotary hobby tool I use for some wood carving and grinding stones to use with it I suggested I’d see what [...]
Continue reading about experimenting with engraving on slate
I spent ages referring to these as “things that you stick in your plant pot, you know, as decoration” so thanks to Jolene for finally setting me straight and appointing the title “plant poke”, at least when we’re trying to sell them at the craft fayre we’ll be able to put a name to them [...]
Making stuff can be hard-going at times, it can be difficult to judge just how good your stuff is in any subjective way, and if it’s not any good, well, what’s the point! Of course family and friends can tell you that what you’ve been making is “super”, “smashing”, or even, “great” yet you’ll always [...]
Eric is one of those chaps you meet who’s always so keen to help, packing bags, carrying groceries, helping little old women of the wood across the stream. Regrettably his slightly maniacal smile does lend him something of a worrying air and often the poor soul to whom he has offered his services will see [...]
During our recent holidayup to the NW highlands I picked up few pieces of wood that took my fancy, a piece cherry, a piece of elm and a piece of yew – I wasn’t sure what I was doing with them when I lifted them in the wood-turning centre, although there was obviously something about [...]
Although I finished this wood carving some time ago there were a couple of finishing touches required to just tidy things up a bit. As ever it’s a random piece of hardwood from my log pile whilst the hair is made from some stripped and sanded twigs from the garden and also as ever there is [...]
I finally completed this piece last night as I applied the final coat of varnish and worried over wanna-be drips, thankfully there were none! I was also grateful this morning to find the sun-shining and the camera charged – a happy combination for capturing some decent snaps outside … although it’s hellish cold out there! [...]
Continue reading about The devil’s monkey ~ an abstract wood carving
If there’s one thing I’ve noticed since I started making my wood carvings it’s the number of people who ask, or suggest, that they’d like one … perhaps as a birthday gift. I can’t say that such requests bother me particularly although, given that I’m never really entirely satisfied with what I’ve made, I’m never [...]
Continue reading about carving out gifts … a framed fish carving
Wood carving generally involves a lot of that, dead wood, but when you add a pipe … well, you know, smoking kills. This is probably one of the quickest carvings I’ve done and incorporates much of what I was toying with in my last post, namely the eyes, which I’m now satisfied do not satisfy [...]
Continue reading about more dead wood … another wood carving
Most All of the wood carvings I do are very organic in nature, I neither plan what I’m going to do or even give much thought as to what the final outcome might look like … it very much just happens. I can remember somebody somewhere saying that they don’t create what they carve, they just [...]
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