Tips for Carving Otters
Tips for Carving Otters When I was a boy, my playground was the water meadows around Winchester in Hampshire, through…
Carving a Perch and Fry Shoal
Carving a Perch and Fry Shoal Things you will need • 6mm coarse grit ‘Typhoon’ carbide burr • 3mm fine…
Carving Scrolls
Carving Scrolls Carving scrolls into furniture is a technique that has been around for many centuries because of its simplistic…
A Trumpet-inspired Chess Set
A Trumpet-inspired Chess Set Mike Darlow turns a chess set based on a trumpet-shape design The set shown above is…
Alterations after Turning
Alterations after Turning Taking your nearly completed piece and intentionally altering it may seem like heresy. Carving, piercing, painting, pyrography,…
Yew Boxes
Yew Boxes There is a yew (Taxus baccata) tree growing in the churchyard at Fortingall in Perthshire that is thought…
Identifying Shapes in Turning
Identifying Shapes in Turning I have looked at the techniques of turning various different shapes into timber, whether that be…
The Saw Doctor Will See You Now
The Saw Doctor Will See You Now Would you use something like a 460mm long Bad Axe Roubo Beastmaster to…
Super Powers
Super Powers Over the years, I have used or developed many tricks or shortcuts on my shop machines for quicker,…
Making a Packet out of Marquetry
Making a Packet out of Marquetry Several months into my course, I have already garnered a notebook full of useful…