Hook knives, hand scorps and gouges
…and sometimes the same work, they are designed for different action, presentation and even wood types, I think. This gouge cuts a spoon in a few minutes in hard, dense-grained…
…and sometimes the same work, they are designed for different action, presentation and even wood types, I think. This gouge cuts a spoon in a few minutes in hard, dense-grained…
…and other big box companies. Using machines took out the risk of making normally associated with craftsmanship and took away the heart of craftwork. Dumbing down skill of course meant…
The Ashley Iles gouge I suggested for UK spoon makers following my videos on spoon carving are out of stock and it seems that it’s a multi-week waiting list if…
…you describe the texture of eating from a wooden bowl using a hand craved wooden spoon made from a sycamore tree? Such texture no longer exists in a Chinese plate…
…into the Christmas season and all of the things the staff here do to enrich the lives of visitors old and young and all in between. Phil has been making…
…Penrhyn Castle—things like spoons and oak clocks, painted boxes, cutting boards and such. We’ll make furniture and sell off some of the projects we made for the films as well…
…three decades to date. My first class back in 1990 gave me the burden. I never stopped my personal making though. Alongside my more industrious making in business and training…
…pattern making and the making of scientific instruments that were at one time widely dependent on wood for component parts. Of course we have fine furniture making, musical instrument making…
…looking forward to his coming back. Don’t know if you remember but John entered a rocking chair in a furniture making competition a year or so ago and took second…
…sharpen them, which is very simple. This spoon took me about 6 minutes for the bowl complete and I wasn’t chasing my tail to do it. Eight chops for the…