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Read More...Repost: Making Custom Colors
It can be difficult to find the perfect dye or stain color for your project. Instead of searching the stores or settling for something other than what you envisioned, you can create the exact color you want. In the Spring 2011 issue of Woodcarving Illustrated, Robert Triplett and Technical Editor…
Read More...Repost: Motivated to Create: The Importance of Painting
With distinctive down-home features, peculiarities of figure, and deliberately exaggerated faces, carvings by Phil and Vicki Bishop are designed to evoke smiles and keep us from taking life too seriously. In the Woodcarving Illustrated Spring 2012 (Issue 58), the pair share their story and inspirations. Although Phil and Vicki, a…
Read More...Repost: 7 Things You Need To Know About Bushcraft
1. The Blade he Cutting blade, the most important tool to the Bushcrafter. It is as important as the sword is to a warrior or teeth and claws are to the Lion. A good Bushcraft blade is sturdy and light and is made from the highest quality materials with the…
Read More...Repost: Extreme Pumpkin Carving
This October, showcase your carving skills with something special for Halloween. Editor’s Note: Carving pumpkins is a tradition for many people celebrating Halloween. In their new book, Extreme Pumpkin Carving, Vic Hood and Jack A. Williams show and tell how to use readily available knives as well as woodcarving tools…
Read More...Woodcarving: Introduction to woodcarving, “Where I Started”
This is a short video to tell where I started, some of the questions I had, and how I ended up with the tools I did. I had several issues when I started trying to get into woodcarving. I was not sure which tools to get, which manufacturer to use,…
Read More...Gunstock Checkering – How it’s done
Gunstock checkering is a craft that very few have truly mastered. Countless hours of labor and buckets of sweat and tears go into perfecting each and every gunstock that comes into Kurt’s Custom Carving and Checkering shop. TiborasaurusRex takes you to meet the one of the few of these fulltime…
Read More...Wood Carving Tools Explained (Gouges)
Explaining what a woodcarving gouge is and what it does.
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