I am writing this as a reminder to myself: I have wanted to make stronger legs for benches and stools, and I now realize that I need to make...

Been on a kolrosing kick these days. Kolrosing is a scandinavian technique whereby the carver makes shallow cuts into the surface of th...

Over the past week my pal Oliver Pratt has come to stay with us in Massachusetts while he takes a class.  We have both been busy, basical...

I have been turning on a treadle lathe for three years now, mostly over the summers and holidays, with periods of intense production followe...

Summer has come and gone, and I have not posted in a while.  I did get a chance to turn some bowls though. Newly oiled bowls drying in th...

Last summer I spent a wonderful weekend with other spoon carvers at Oliver's idyllic home in the Catskills. I have written about this ex...

http://a4.files.xovain.com/ Sometimes you get lucky.