For several years I taught marine woodcarving at a boatbuilding school in Maine.
Mastery
Bowls and Scrapers – Flashback Friday – August 13, 2019
Sooner or later, most woodworking sites and blogs have some sort of post on scrapers. Rather than duplicate what others have demonstrated in the care, feeding, use, and maintenance of scrapers. I'd like to point out that they produce much less dust than sanders - that's a hell of a significant point when you have a confined shop and allergies.
Proficient
Periodically carving becomes a fad and not a cheap one.
Work Smart
If you buy too many woodworking magazines, you may develop shop and tool envy.
Bricolage
Items like models, patterns and proportional dividers are as important to your carving as sharp gouges and knives.
Eagle Eyes
While teaching, I always like to decorate the workshop with carving examples for students to use as a reference. Week-long excursions to teach away from home mean emptying the house of many of my carvings. But samples in three dimensions often are better than pictures or demonstration, and the extra work was worth it.
Love and Hate
Because of the good and bad of the design, it's a piece I love and hate.
Sources
In January, I started what I thought to be a quick project for a portrait of the halibut Schooner Republic. There was not much online where I began, and even less available in terms of print sources. My collection at home also came up dry. I was able to complete the project in March but wished that I had better documentation.
Share
Share; be generous.
Create
We so often admire the complex and then seek out and appreciate the simple
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