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October 9, 2024
Why Carving is Honestly One of the Best Ideas That Could Cross Your Mind
A master carver on why carving is worth your years, what it does to your head, and who really shows up to learn it.
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September 29, 2024
Can you teach yourself wood carving?
Teach yourself wood carving further than you expect, then meet the two walls that stop nearly everyone. Shall we carve?
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September 17, 2024
What to know before starting wood carving
Design before carving, sharpening that never ends, a 2x4 that punishes you, and two weeks of sore hands. The expectations I wish somebody had set for me at the beginning.
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September 15, 2024
Why is wood carving difficult, and which skill is the real wall
Beginners think the hard part is the hand holding the gouge. It is the edge, then the grain, then the depth you cannot put back. Named in order, with honest timings.
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August 30, 2024
What does low density wood mean?
Light wood is not weak wood, and softness is not why I carve basswood almost every day. Here are the real numbers, and one puzzle from my bench I still cannot explain.
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August 30, 2024
What is high density wood?
Heavy is not the same as hard, and hard is not the same as strong. Here are the real numbers for the top of the weight table, and the honest bill a dense board hands you.
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August 30, 2024
What is the lowest density wood?
Balsa weighs nine pounds a cubic foot at twelve percent moisture, and the USDA prints about ten pounds for the same tree because it weighs the wood bone dry. Nine species are laid out with both units, and then the reason I choose limewood has nothing to do with weight.
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August 29, 2024
How long does wood take to dry for carving?
Why the honest answer to how long does wood take to dry is a room and a log cut, not a number of months.
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August 29, 2024
How Do You Seal Wood After Carving?
Oil, wax, shellac or lacquer on a surface full of shadows. What each one does to the hollows you carved, and how I finish a relief panel that lives indoors.
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August 28, 2024
What does the crushing strength of wood mean?
I lost petal rims to this for years and blamed the wood. Here are the real crushing numbers, and the bench test that finally stopped it.
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August 27, 2024
How do I dry green wood for carving at home?
Two stages, outdoors and then indoors, with the oven and the microwave weighed honestly against the patient stack.
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August 27, 2024
How do you soften wood before carving?
Soaking, steaming and bottled softeners all work for an hour, and all of them raise the grain. What really changes a block is a sharp edge, the species you picked, and knowing which way the grain runs.
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