Finishing my greenwood carvings, bowls or spoons

  Once I’ve completed the greenwood carving, either a bowl or spoon, I let it sit in a controlled environment for drying.  Around here that is a large lidded cardboard box in my basement.  The basement has a dehumidifier, so even in the summer the humidity level isn’t likely to fluctuate too much.  The same …

Dave Fisher’s Daily Bowls

  Dave Fisher has a great blog post about creating daily bowls, the kind of bowl you would use for morning cereal or maybe a scoop or two of ice cream.  While these are very basic bowls, those that he creates have a level of simple beauty that I only hope to achieve some day. …

The Learning Bowl

Danielle Rose Byrd, Dave Fisher, Peter Follansbee , and Amy Umbel are all on my list of those that provide inspiration.  They are directly responsible for my initial attempts to make a wooden bowl. My first attempt was to make a traditional Swedish bowl or bark up bowl.  I blame this on Danielle based on …

Some of my work to date, looking back over the last year

I was reading through my posts and realized for a blog about green wood carving, there is a shocking lack of green wood carving.  I thought I'd address that with sort of a history.  I'll attempt a chronological history, but there are no guarantees. When I started on this path I knew I wanted to …

Making larger pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood.

I’m a fan of blogs, and one that I enjoy is Lost Art Press.  Kara Uhl recently authored a post regarding the Art of Mastery.  In it she includes the following. Niels Henrik David Bohr, a Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his work on atomic structures once said, …

Best laid plans

My hope was to dive into a low bench for bowl carving and a shave / bowl horse.  Prior to taking on those projects.  I wanted to test out my skills.  Which resulted in a 3 legged stool. This is from the reclaimed lumber from my previous post.  The top is long leaf pine, the …

Milling reclaimed wood

My project to build a shave horse and low bench started with this pile of reclaimed long leaf pine and oak.   Once we got it home, we spent some time with a rare earth magnet looking for any nails or such in the wood. This nail was approximately 3" long.  At the time I …