[Don by the lake]

I have just posted a carving my wife, Karen, did a couple years ago. When she did this carving she had never carved before. I was spending a lot of time at my bench carving for a show I was getting ready for and she thought she wanted to carve so that we could spend more time together. I found a similar carving on the internet that she liked so I made a pattern and cut out the peices from basswood and got her started. I think she did a fantatsic job even if I am a little prejudice. She still carves a little but does stained glass now. We share the same shop now and have plenty of room so we don't get in each others way.
http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.co...o=1209&cat=500

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

That is really a good first carving!

[Irish]

Karen did a great job on that delightful scene! If this is what she is doing with her first attempt at carving I expect that her stained glass work is spectacular.

Susan

[Callynne]

Don, that's a great first carving, I love it and don't think you are prejudiced at all! Great job, Karen! Thanks for sharing it with us, Don! Deborah

[AlArchie]

Don, you gotta take away all those glass cutters, pliers, soldering irons and hunks of colored glass, and replace them with some knives, gouges, strops, stones and LOTS of wood! Karen should be CARVING, not playing with those silly "craft" materials! (just kidding) ((well, maybe not))

Al

[Clifford_Parker]

That is a FIRST carving?!??!

Wonderful work!!!! Thanks for sharing it.