I entered my shop this morning to smell linseed oil, varnish, and wood shavings.
Rooted
You’re Kidding Me?
My time vending at large boat shows ended with the COVID pandemic. I was already aging out of the intense commitment that the three-day shows required. They entailed an actual four-day involvement. Then, too, the business I was in was changing. As a marine carver, I was dependent on the business of carving fancy names, …
Variation
This small selection of treen (woodenware for cooking and eating) will be shipped later this week. I've finished the hand sanding with four hundred grit sandpaper and a final scraping of the spoon bowls. Right now, they are soaking up the first of at least two coats of mineral oil. I'll ship them with a …
The Humble Spatula
It begins as a split of wood from what might otherwise be a hunk of cherry firewood. But I pick through as I stack and haul out every log that has "prospects." I saw the wood into billets, the rough size for spoons and spatulas. All the scrap is winter-time kindling. Pieces with obvious and …
Shop time
Friday is now a day off, and I'm having some issues adjusting to three-day weekends. I know, some would love to have that problem. But today, I used about half of that time productively in the shop. I am beginning to adapt! I had batched out a bunch of blanks for cherry spoons, forks, and …
More Prototypes and Models
Just when I thought I had sorted out the pile, I found these hanging in a corner. One is a lettering experiment for the whale sign that I showed you yesterday. The others include assorted patterns for moldings, carved hands, and the like. After taking this photo, I realized that there were also assorted carved …
The Whale
There is a pile in the shop of prototypes, samples, experiments, and oddities. This one was part of a series of whale designs I created for a house sign commission I had. The prototype wound up in the pile of oddities. I have items from when I first started carving as a maritime carver. It …
Progress?
It will never be the studio beautiful
No easy answers
for some people it's a ritual that makes the whole thing hang together
Shake, Rattle and Roll
It's springtime clean-up in the shop. Yes, that time of year when I relocate stuff, vacuum all the accumulated bandsaw dust, and find stuff that I looked for in August, but lost in June. In other words the shop get a good shake up. I have described my shop as ten pounds in a five …
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