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Old 04-14-2009, 12:13 AM
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Default Hello fellow wood carvers
Christmas of 2007 my grown children got me several books on carving, and a nice set of chisels, I had mentioned that I did a good bit of whittling in my teens, but got tired of the blood shed. By Feb 2008 I had my lap bench finished and my first two dahl horses, and no blood spilt. It was really tough work roughing even basswood with a coping saw, and could see I needed a stronger bench and holding system for larger pieces. I Finished my first workbench two weeks ago ( a Norm Abrams style but made all of locally harvested red elm, white oak, and an Ipe tailstock (Ipe is not local). Nearly done with a Euro style carving Platform (seen in Chris Pye's book Elements of Wood Carving). I have been practicing with my tools and sharpening them. Projects look like what is in the books, for original work I have a sketch book nearly full of critters and faces, and four projects roughed out. I have enjoyed looking at some of the projects shown here, and thought I should say Hi.
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Old 04-14-2009, 12:29 AM
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Hi CS, let me be the first to welcome you to our group!
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Welcome to the group. When you get the time show us your work and work bench. We always enjoy being inspired by others.
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Old 04-14-2009, 01:04 PM
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Welcome, sounds like you are ready to do some serious carving. When you are ready I'd love to see how you are coming along with your carving. If you need any help or have questions this is the place.
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CS,always nice to see new blood OOOPS. Great to have you aboard.

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Hello and welcome, CS. It's nice to have you here with us. It would be nice to see your work bench if you'd care to post photos of it.
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Old 04-14-2009, 02:30 PM
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Welcome to the group. I noticed you used some IPE wood. How did you cut it? I have a source to get it free, thought I might use it to make some spoons but I know it is very hard and wondered if I could cut it with my bandsaw?
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Old 04-14-2009, 03:35 PM
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Hello and Welcome. Enjoy the site.
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Welcome to the forum.

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Welcome to the board , good to have you with us .


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