Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
If you studied economics, process engineering or are an enthusiast of popular psychology, you might have heard of the Sunk Cost Fallacy. It's alive and well in woodcarving too. Sunk costs are costs you have paid and can't get back. That's fine if everything works out. But if the project just hasn't been the success …
Recently I've noticed that there is a new online marketing ploy. "Craft" vendors are placing ads that state they are retiring their entire "Great Waves" or other collections. They sacrifice profits to clear this valuable inventory as they approach retirement or other significant life events. Pardon me while I laugh. I suspect the items were mass-produced in China or some other offshore location precisely for this commercial maneuver.
My wife enjoyed the hair combs I've been making but wanted some hair sticks for her long hair.
Well, we are almost out of the prototype phase with the combs.
Why break a perfectly fine comb? Well, to see if it can take some punishment.
January is my month to discover and prototype new things. The shop and the rest of life are slow, so taking advantage of this to do something that you may be too busy for otherwise is a good use of the time. But the creation process does not happen in a blinding flash of light with celestial trumpets blaring. Instead, things gradually fall into place, sometimes with a bit of annoyance and pain.
It is not on any list that I hand out to students. But E.J. Tangerman's Whittling and Woodcarving got me started as a woodcarver.
These cherry spoons and spatulas are stocking stuffers for my daughter-in-law and her mother. T
This is the time of year I am busy stacking firewood and preparing balks of wood for future use as bowls, cutting boards, and bowls. This fall, I am particularly busy preparing bowl and cutting board stock from a supply of ash that came my way.
A few years before the pandemic, surgeries on both eyes made me pause my schedule of annual outings to boat shows. After a year or two elapsed, I substantially retrained my eyes and hands to the new realities of my vision, was carving again, and considered resuming shows.
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