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Motivated to Create: The Importance of Painting

Popular Caricature Carving Instructors share their painting tips
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Shopmade Work Positioner

Create a solid positionable carving stand with a few scraps of plywood and some common hardware....
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Durable Wooden Honing Tools

                        From Ed Livingston, Pinellas Park, Fla.  Wooden honing tools, whether they are commercial products or shopmade hones matched to the exact profile of your tools, can ...
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Finding and Marking Centerlines

                From Doug Storment, San Antonio, Tex. Most carvers struggle to sketch an accurate centerline on an irregularly shaped band-saw cutout. I use a laser level—the ...
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Keeping Tools Organized

TOP TIP From Joe SavareseBrooklyn, N.Y. , Whenever you are working with sharp tools, it is important to be organized. I start by color coding my tool ...
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Inexpensive Tool Rack

From Roy Smith, Clovis, Calif. It’s easy to make a rack for carving tools out of 1"-diameter PVC pipe. First, choose the length to make the ...
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Whittle a Flying Propeller

Quick and easy project is perfect for beginners...
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Christmas Gnome

A six-minute carving project to brighten the holidays...
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Carver's Lapboard

No room in the house is off limits with this portable carving station made from scrap....
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SHOP-MADE Holding Devices

Inexpensive methods for holding irregularly shaped carvings...
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