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View fullsize I’m really excited to share that I will be offering some greenwood carving classes, this summer. If you are in the Salina, KS area and interested in carving, these might be the classes for you. You can sign up at my website, which is linked on
View fullsize No long post here. I just wanted to show the stamp I carved with my new logo.
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View fullsize Homestretch I haven’t posted a lot in the last few months, but I have been working on things at varying frequencies. I have mostly focused on getting things roughed out, so that I can try to finish in batches. Now is the time for that. Next m
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View fullsize I carved a new burnisher out of some deer antler that a friend got for me. It’s an upgrade from the wooden leather burnisher I’ve always used. I followed an article from a recent @spoonesaurus magazine, and decided to keep it a little t
View fullsize I’ve been carving a lot of these toddler spoons lately. For some reason, they are just the only style I feel like carving when I go to grab blanks out of the freezer. Maybe I think they are a quicker, easier carve, but I don’t actually th
View fullsize Tests completed I bought a couple 85 mm sloyd blades from @focusercarving right before Christmas, and didn’t get around to handling them until mid-late February. Since then, I’ve used them almost exclusively to rough out everything I ha
View fullsize Little Hands I’ve been trying to find a design I like for a toddler spoon for a little while now. I think this new one in river birch might just be what I’m looking for or at least close. It has a thicker, more faceted handle than unusua

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