From Sheila Wood: “It was great to receive news from the Club. … When the club last met, I was inspired by several members, to make a commemorative spoon for an expected grandchild. I was advised that lime wood lends itself to such work and bought a piece from the club, then set about planning …
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New work from Rosie
I love these two works sent to me recently by Rosie from the group: Can members please send more of their work to me at dh at sarquol.com? Its good to see what we are all doing during this forced separation.
New Work from Glen Martin
I’ve attached a few photos for the website. The cat and the pig follow designs by Jeremy Williams; the perching birds, nuthatches and letter-opener are Peter Benson designs. The remainder are my own.
David’s Day Out
I was collecting my daughter from University in Bangor and ‘happened’ to run into a wood festival in the area. (http://www.woodfestwales.co.uk) It is set up as quite a family day out, with a variety of wood related events and a fun fair. As you can see from the photographs, one of the major attractions from …
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Publicity Photos
If you have good quality photographs of your carvings that you don’t mind us “publishing” when we need photos then I would appreciate it if you could get copies of them to myself or John Pryke. Given the recent warning they need to be either original carvings, or we need to have appropriate “accreditation” (i.e. …
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THE “VASA” AND ITS CARVINGS – Part 1
The Vasa is a Swedish warship, that capsized on its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She was a royal ship which was the biggest of Sweden’s warships at the time. It’s hull was built of 1,000 oaks and had 64 large guns; masts that were more than 50 metres high, and many 100’s of …
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An odd-shaped carving support
(the title refers to the carving to be supported not the support itself!)
Recycling those offcuts
An interesting tip was given to us by Peter about the possible productive use of those offcuts that we are all reluctant to get rid of. The idea was prompted by him sorting out some scrap and studying their shapes and what might be produced from them.. Some of the resulting carv-ings are show in …
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The Unpatented Woodchip Shield
A certain retired naval gentleman suggested that instead of me keeping on asking for contributions to the Newsletter, I should include this object, which can be seen in the picture. In other words it is a carver’s apron!
Lighting up your carvings
Now folks, this may or may not be of interest to all of you but some of you will have seen my clown walking stick with the eyes that light up. (See picture. A). I have now made a bowl that has a LED strip that lights as well (See picture B).
