Bowl carving bench

My craving to be outdoors only seems to be intensifying over the years, as does my love for carving. It’s a good thing, then, that these two desires are sometimes compatible. On Sunday afte…

Handmade home goods in cork and wood.

Part 1:My carving horse bench top, in progress!

Details & Dimensions Dimensions: 17

The improved bench hook in the previous post did not show the actual device so a photo is included here. Note, at the bottom left corner of the bench hook is the lock, shown in the rotated position. By rotating the lock counter clock-wise it is possible to use the bench hook, flat in a normal position. Also note that the stop at the bottom has been replaced with two smaller stops that can be rotated to accomodate ovals. The angle formed by the top of the bench hook and the work bench is…

You've felt it. That moment of panic when, while planning for a family vacation, you realize you're going to be away from your workshop for an extended period of time. An excruciatingly long period of time. It's the very reason I learned to carve and whittle. For times on holiday when I can't bear to relax for one more second, I have a set of carving tools and chunk of wood at the ready. As woodworkers, no matter where we go on our travels, our brains are conditioned to search for objects…

If you’re going to make round bowls, why not use a lathe? Well, because I’m chicken. There’s something about a twenty pound chunk of wood spinning around at five hundred rpm tha…

by Todd Walker My uncle Emmett introduced me to woodcarving in grade school. He taught me to carve a “ball in a cage” from a single block of balsa wood in the church basement. Years pas…

Poker-face warning: this is not an April Fool's gag (weren't quite clever enough this year!) A couple of years ago I built a very large dining table for my home. It will seat ten comfortably, and several more if needed. But I've held off on building chairs due to my inexperience with this furniture genre. The past couple years I've done a lot of research on chair types, or more accurately, chair-construction methods. I've spent a lot of my shop time making tree trunks into precise…