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The Storm has arrived!
Well, MsDebbi was right I’m raising the roof line up 2’ in the living area. I was told by my wife that this project has to be done in no more than 1 year, my boys graduation. There is no going back...
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The strom is over now lets see if we can put it together!
Day two was a little left over framing and then day three was a total roof job on both new and existing, they did remove old shingles before roofing the old areas. Again this was a total of one day for...
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Coat of Arms commission #4: Another fine job completed!!
I finally completed the carving. I talked the customer into leaving the carving marks instead of sanding them out. I explained that by leaving the carving unsanded the cut facets would throw the light...
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Acanthus carvings #1: First 5 hours.
There was some interest in me bloging another carving and it happens to be a couple of acanthus carvings for the last Coat of Arms I bloged. This one is my design this time. These are approx. 6 1/2” X...
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Acanthus carvings #2: Getting closer with 11 hours down.
I’m getting closer with this project. These pictures are between the 5 hrs. and 11 hrs. times. The tools I used so far were in a very large range of sizes. Anywhere from #3-10mm to a #9-4mm. I have...
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Acanthus carvings #3: Acanthus carving completed.
Push goes to shove and then you have a completed project!!!! If you look closely you can see that the backside has been cut away to give the leaves a 3D appearance. Because I wasn’t going to be doing...
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Final pictures of remodel
Sorry about being so late with the remainder of the pictures. I just had to show you the plants that my wife has under our kitchen window. Thanks for being patient.
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Large picture frame commission.
In this blog I thought you lumberjocks would be interested in seeing the whole process that I go thru when doing this picture frame commission. This is the picture that the owner wanted a carved frame...
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Large picture frame commission #1: Making carving samples and the frame.
Finally back with the next steps in this project. Chip carving relies heavily on shadows so when designing the frame profile I had to make sure that the angle of the frame wasn’t to much or to little...
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Large picture frame commission #2: Carving completed
This weekend I managed to finish the chip carving on the frame. I dry fitted the frame to make sure the corners carvings would all line up together. As you can see I carved the frame unassembled...
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Large picture frame commission #3: Completed
Well it has been a long road but I finally can see the end. Now all that is left is meeting up with the picture owner and installing the picture at his place. I will try and get pictures of the picture...
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2009 large chip carving #1: First phase of the carving
Some of you may have remembered me from the past, I do chip carving on woodworking items. Every year I try and make one large chip carving for the carving shows and this year is no exception. I started...
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2009 large chip carving #2: Lets make it larger!
Sorry for such a long delay on this piece. After I had this piece done I decided that it needed something so I added the chip carved folding wings which can changed it from a 24” square to a 36”...
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Swiss Trip #1: Tour of a lifetime
I’m a part of this great website because I am a woodworker and enjoy new adventures into woodworking with my LJ friends but my passion is for woodcarving. I have been carving for about 14 years and...
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Swiss Trip #2: Swiss Doors!
One thing that I found in Switzerland was that there was no limit to the imagination as to what a door or doorway was to look like.
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Swiss Trip #3: Architecture at it's best
After about half of the tour it hit me at how much different the architecture was in Switzerland than here in the good old USA. When I sat back and really thought about it Switzerland is around 500...
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Swiss Trip #4: Swiss woodwork and joinery
With my construction background it was only natural for me to pay special attention to some of the unique construction techniques from years past. This is a unfinished end of a house. Oh yes, they do...
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Swiss Trip #5: Flowers and fountains anyone!
One thing that was obvious to the wife and I was that the Swiss took pride in their flowers and fountains. Fountains were everywhere and flowers around them was a must.
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Swiss Trip #6: Woodcarvings
We in this country will never see the carving like Europe has. Carvings in Europe were mostly made for churches and back then the church was everything to the people so most of what they earned went to...
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Swiss Trip #7: The expected and unexpected in Switzerland
This trip was full of expected and unexpected things.Oh yes, a Big Mac meal was $12.50! We even saw aliens. The artist for the movie Aliens lives in one medieval town and displayed his work there. You...
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