carving
Each leaf surface takes several hours to carve. I thought you might enjoy this fast forward video of the first pass of carving a single leaf (after all the roughing out was completed).
The soundtrack is Mashenguville Groove by Afriscapes (licensed from Audio Micro). Enjoy!
I've been working on a new carved leaf bowl for the past few weeks. The wall thickness was 1–1.5 inches, which gave me a lot of room with which to work. Here are some progress photos up to yesterday's work (3 Feb 2022).
A couple of weeks ago I had a wonderful week at the Florida School of Woodwork, in Tampa, Florida. I took a box-making class with Michael Cullen, and eight of my women in turning friends. We used a bandsaw to cut out the box shapes, and then used hand tools to carve textures. The boxes were finished with milk paint. The entire week was delightful.
Kate Swann, the owner of the school, asked me to record an interview. She posted it on YouTube, and you can watch it by clicking on this link:
Here’s one of my finished boxes from the class.
Here’s the inside of the box.
Photos of how I make carved turnings…
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