Artists, artisans, and craftspeople wind up filling their spaces. As a result, the walls and floor become littered with drawings, painting, pottery, or carving. Visiting them, you might wonder who does the dusting?
Gallery
Whack!
You can't carve without removing wood. And removing wood can be as delicate a process as lightly slipping the gouge through the wood or propelling it forcefully. Apply too much force in the wrong situation, and you have lovely kindling.
Schooner
I posted on using cement on the end grain of a small schooner I was working on a while ago. The logic was that this particular carving would have lots of unsupported end-grain prone to breakage while I was carving.
Skillful
Mostly I do not take chances with safety while carving, so the gouge took off a hunk of the eyeball on the eagle I was carving rather than a hunk of hand.
Like a River
Creativity is a strange beast.
Reads for a Winter’s Evening
Every winter, I look for entertaining and educational reads to fill the evening; I lost the TV habit many years ago.
Hancing Pieces
You might have a hancing piece in any place that needed a graceful transition.
Little
Work in small dimensions doesn't seem to be as impressive as more substantial work, but it requires thoughtful attention to detail and forces us to focus our skills. Doing small versions also can be a way of working out design elements for later work when you scale up your design.
A Halibut Schooner
There is no definitive book on halibut schooners. It's hard to define a "type" there is so much variation. Some are transom sterned, but others like the one I've carved are canoe sterned. All had moderate deadrise ( not flat bottomed), and tended to be plumb stemmed, but not always. See the problem?
Thoughts On Carving – Pine
Pine is a worthwhile wood for carving: It's readily available in a variety of species; many times, it will be the economical choice of wood, and with sharp tools can yield a rewarding carving experience.
Louis N. Carreras, Woodcarver 
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