Wood
This is the first larger carving I have completed using my new gouges, they have essentially allowed me to abandon the set of craft knives I had been using and at the same time has also eliminated the fear I had of breaking the rather flimsy knives. The gouges have certainly made life a lot [...]
I’ve been busy extending the range of runic pendents available to include more ‘bind runes’, that is runes designed to have a particular influence on the wearers life. Whether or not you believe such things the sentiment is rather nice and I think it’s nice to have a little hope that things might be better [...]
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 [...]
In prearation for our forthcoming craft fayre Jo and I have stepped our crafting from something just short of a slow simmer to a frantic and frightening boil which essentially sees us crafting every night, obviously when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘Jo’ … personally I’m still pretty horizontal when it comes to crafting activity! [...]
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This is the last piece carved from wood sourced from the NW Highlands, Scotland, when we were on holiday there earlier in the year. It was good to get something a bit different my usual efforts in Elm and Alder, and whilst I think the Cherry’s nice I think I’d like to do some more [...]
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! [...]
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