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furniture restoration
Every blog article tagged furniture restoration.
August 10, 2026
How to carve a replacement that matches an antique
A client sent me a photograph and an order for fifteen rosettes. No antique, just the picture. Here is what actually gives a new carving away, and the tool that fixes it.
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December 7, 2023
From Russia to America, and What I Carve Now
Alexander Grabovetskiy is a master wood carver, born in 1973 in Dimitrovgrad in the Russian part of the Soviet Union. His great-grandfather built mahogany furniture in the Chippendale style. He ruined his own grandfather's chisel on a brick at six, became the only student of the carver Vladimir Tokarev at sixteen, and reached the United States as a refugee on 15 March 1996 with almost no English. He built the woodworking firm Aalmark in Indiana, hired other refugee woodworkers, then sold every machine to carve full time. In 2012 a panel called Wall Decoration took first place and made him International Woodcarver of the Year.
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- architectural ornament
- relief carving
- wood carving
- woodcarving lessons
- woodcarving step by step
- basswood carving
- ornamental carving
- Woodcarving Tools
- acanthus
- architectural wood carving
- Baroque
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- woodworking
- acanthus carving
- Acanthus Leaf
- acanthus leaf carving
- Beginner's Guide to Wood Carving
- byzantine ornament
- carving antique style rosette
- carving design
- carving gouges
- classical ornament