This is a project that will be in woodworking crafts issue 78 but while making the project I also made a video showing my thought process and how came up with it all.
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2022/09/small-systainer-sized-router-table.html
Well I certainly didn't keep up with the blog! That's for sure! But I did carve every week of the year except the weeks holiday we had in the summer. My trouble with blogging every week ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2022/01/52-weeks-of-carving-year-end.html
I learn through many ways but I cement knowledge by practice. That's why the boxes I sell over on Etsy are the prefect way for me to hone my skills. Doing something once is great but to ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/09/52-weeks-of-carving-repetition.html
For awhile now I'd had an idea for a bit of written carving I wanted to make for a friend. I am not a religious person, but he is, and he once said this phrase to me and it really stuck w...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/09/52-weeks-of-carving-quotation.html
I've slipped out of habit with this bit of the blog lately - I'd like to say though that I'm still carving every week. The trouble is I've been carving for some magazine articles (which...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/09/52-weeks-of-carving-bit-behind.html
I had an enquiry about a possible commission for a sign for a local historic building that I needed to quote for. The brief was fairly vague, but simple. There was the possibility to make it a ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/08/52-weeks-of-carving-week-30-tudor-rose.html
Super excited to see one of my projects in Issue 182 of Woodcarving magazine! I made this projects a few months ago and wrote the article. But it was extra great to see it on the first p...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/08/52-weeks-of-carving-week-29-woodcarving.html
I did a bit more writing this week and practiced it until I could do it a reasonable speed. Then filmed myself and sped it up!
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/07/52-weeks-of-carvign-week-28-seeds.html
I've deliberately missed out a couple of weeks on here - not because I wasn't carving, but because I couldn't show it on here. Hopefully I'll be able to show that project soon. This last we...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/07/52-weeks-of-carving-week-26-carved.html
I have written for a few magazines now, one with a monthly slot about smallholding machinery , but I've always wanted to write for a wood working magazine. When I was an apprentice I'd buy big ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/06/furniture-and-cabinet-making-magazine.html
This week I've managed to carve a tool box to sell on my Etsy store . I'd been looking to make a few carved items to add to my store, so I feel this is a good start. I'd also li...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/06/52-weeks-of-carving-week-23-toolbox.html
This post is for last week - I just didn't get chance to put it up (I was recovering from a busy day on Sunday ). I've decided that some more repetitive carving would help cement some sk...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/06/52-weeks-of-carving-week-22-more-flowers.html
Had a random week this week, but managed to start to learn to a skill I'd always wanted to learn how to Scythe. I'm going to talk about that in my other blog, but it involved meeting a very...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/06/52-weeks-of-carving-week-21-daughters.html
I used a bit of scrap Tulip to try a different type of flower a bit more like a peony. Just a practice piece so only really messing around. Background roughly lowered. The...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/05/52-weeks-of-carving-week-20-practice.html
So this week has been quite a good one for carving and I managed to get a project completely finished (unfortunately whilst not wanting to start a big project as I was supposed to have a delive...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/05/52-weeks-of-carving-week-19-flowers.html
Very late writing this one up - I slipped with posting last week but I have the perfect excuse as to why I didn't get any carving done. I'd left it until Sunday to spend a bit of time c...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/05/52-weeks-of-carving-week-18-flowers-and.html
This week I did try to start to carve an Aztec style face in some poplar and struggled with my carpenters mallet a bit. I decided it was time to make a smaller, turned, carvers mallet. I ha...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/05/52-weeks-of-carving-week-17-carving.html
Build and fitted this little cupboard unit for a regular customer this week. Nice little job - I was worried as they'd sent me the measurements to save a visit - luckily it all fitted nicely. ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/05/little-cupboard.html
I need to get back to the more tradional carving as this almost feels like cheating - but with the weather being so great we've been messing around lots outside doing green woodwork. I p...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/04/52-weeks-of-carving-week-16-beetle-poor.html
This week has been a fun week for some projects getting done. My eldest daughter and I managed to finish our "spoon mule" - a shave horse type device for holding fine things to be worked on - lik...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/04/52-weeks-of-carving-week-15-spatula.html
So for my birthday, a few weeks ago, I got the book "Carving The Acanthus Leaf" by Mary May. I decided that it's silly to read the book and not try to put anything into practice. So for a skill...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/04/52-weeks-of-carving-week-14-simple.html
I didn't get chance to start on any oak beams this week but I did finish the strapwork piece, I was worried that I would just shelve it and it would never get done so I'm pleased that I have. The...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/04/52-weeks-of-carving-week-13-strapwork.html
It was my birthday last week and as mum asked me what I'd like I rather decadently suggested this book - Another Work is Possible. It's probably not a book I would have bought myself as it's ...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/04/another-work-is-possible.html
So this week I have started to make another strap work piece to drive home the setting out skills. The design is the same as the one I did a few weeks ago. So really it's just chisel p...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/03/52-weeks-of-carving-week-12-practice.html
So I've not done huge amounts on the carving front this week, even with full intentions. I just needed to get some other jobs out the way first! I have managed to start on another strapwork...
http://www.sawdustinmysocks.com/2021/03/52-weeks-of-carving-week-11-more-strap.html