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I have looked at your Website, and the quality and finish of your carvings. They are very impressive to say the least. i thank you for your coments on my items.

I would like to thank everyone for...

Excellent !. I am another one who would make the feet just protrude about 3mm and roundover the edges. A beautiful job. What finish did you use.

Well i have sucumed to peer presure, Here is a photo of the inside of the box, What a letdown.:o

He looks briliant, and is it something about Tassie Timbers, they all seem to last very well.

Whittling , It's just that i take the photos before i fill it up .:U

I have been asked about what tools i use.
I use an old school case, into which i have fitted stackable trays, made to fit my chisels and knives, with a bit of room for my eyes and small carvings and...

Good day Arbor and Stanley. I have posted some photos Of your requests on a new thread. Portable Carving tools and work stations

Hello whittling, the book is called, Elements of woodcarving , by Chris Pye, and the butterflies are on page 124. If i was you, I would look it up on E-Bay first, as a lot of book shops advertise...

Hello Whittling, I purchased the apron from SMOKEY MOUNTAINS WOODCARVING about 4years ago, But they still have them. They range around $25 to $35 plus postage.
The most common tools i use are...

The 2 Bows are made from White Beech, and are 75mm long. All the others are made from Jelutong. The Cone is 125mm long. The ball in a box in a box is 180mm long x 40mm x 40mm and the spiral...

Sorry about that. The wood is Jelutong, it is 120mm wide x 65mm long. without the feelers or whatever they are. They are another 50mm long, and are made from Bamboo chop sticks cut down and...

I think everyone tries to acheive the best results they can, some do better than others, you have done this, Congratulations.

This box is made from New Zealand Swamp Kauri, abouy 50,000 year old, with a Huon Pine Ribbon and bow. ALL sides are mitred, and the inside surfaces are all polished and waxed before assembly. It is...

I seen a butterfly in a book a well known English carver, ( Chris Pye ) put out. I seen this as a challenge, to see if i could carve as thin as he did. With patience, and really really really sharp...

This is how i fill the night in while my wife watches TV. I bought an apron from the States that has a pocket in it to catch the chips, and i sit with her and carve.

Some where on this forum, a gentleman carved a large handgun. Well i did not carve the whole gun, just a hand grip for Target shooting. The hardest part was getting a dead tight fit on the gun itself...

Gentlemen, I can not take credit for the idea, i took it from a carving magazine, as well as another with a mouse playing a violin, that i will post once my son has reduced the photo.

You could buy a 45 Deg Router Cutter and a router table. BUT, buy a good brand cutter, not an El Cheapo.

Keep trying, don't let it beat you. I had troubles too with the Digital Mitre Gauge too,...

Thank you Mike.. I have to make a Butterfly for the lady that did the spots , and then i have my eye on an Owl from one of the carving mags, but we'll see.

The top lifts off and it is functional. It is polished inside the same as the outside. All inside surfaces of my boxes are finished and polished before assembly.All my boxes are polished and waxed,...

I was asked by my wife and sister-in-law to make a Document box for their Aunties 80 th birthday, I will take an A4 sheet, and is made from river Red Gum, and the top insert panel and bottom are Hoop...

This just appealed to me. It's a noisy Minor, who has crashed through the kitchen window. Hense , the buckled beak, and popped eyes, and the raised feet. He has been cut in half ,and magnets have...

This small Huon Pine fully mitred box, ( 4sides and top and bottom ) has a ribbon and bow carved from River Red Gum, and is about 1mm thick352887352888352889352890

This is called the KISS, and is...

All the items are carved from White Beech. I love it, It's a bit hard, but i don't get any chipping. Sanding tends to bog up the paper, and you have to clean it constantly, but it finishes nicely .

A few or more years ago i posted some boxes i made. After supplying all family, i decided to have a go at Carving. My youngest Grandaughter wanted some marine creatures, and then the older one wanted...

First Box ! Very nice work, only one thing, you won't have much improving to do

What a lovely box that warped one turned out, very elegant, something different. Congratulations, Bob

Thank you for the info. Much appreciated. Bob

Can some one please enlighten me to the benefits of having a Left, or Right hand tilting blade. Is one more of use than the other. I have a Schepak ts 2000 which is a good little saw, but it has...

I think you have done a good job and it looks great

A very classy box, looks fantastic

Realy good work. Doesn't look like you need much help. Looks like you could give some

Beautiful work, I love the Marquetry

What finish do have on it, it looks great

I love the carving, it is superb, way out of my league

I have seen what you are after in Bunnings, and also in Model & hobby shops, They have a little rack with all sorts of miniature metal sections, steel, aluminium and brass, in 300mm lengths

I bet no one thought that pallet would look like that. The colours and grain in wood always amazes me, a nice simple box that looks terrific.

Looking forward to the finished unit, I have been thinking about the same idea, It will be good to see your approach .

Where does he fly that thing. LOL

There is quite a bit of difference in the friction between machined and anodised Aluminium

Your right about the toxicity of Cedar, I ended up with Sequoicious, a disease that can kill you. It's like pleurisy, and a lot of the Cedar Foresters used to get it. The boney areas around my...

My router plate is steel along with the inserts, and yes i have waxed them. The table is Formica, i just used the inference to illustrate the difference in drag. I drilled and countersunk and tapped...

I would make the reducing plates out of Aluminium as well, and get them Anodised. This will keep the friction, or lack of it, constant, you will not get a jerky movement past the cutter as you go Aly...

My woodwork teachers name was "Piggy" Grant, haven't a clue what his real name was, but he was deadly accurate with a chisel, i have seen him throw a chisel at some kid about 30' away, who was...

I built a strip plank Cedar Canoe about 15 years ago ( Christ, has it been that long ) I purchased the kit from Duck Flat Wooden Boats in Adelaide. The kit cost me about $1000 then

Amos, When i did woodwork at school i could not plane a flat surface,thats why i became a fitter and machinist. when you look at boxes like this, some people are just naturals. Bloody nice work

Tomod, I was reading these forums, and there was a discussion on whether a router table and incra or other devices were necessary. Some one said you could do everything you needed with Templates or...

Absolutely Fabulous. I t should be in the 400 Wooden Boxes book, it would put half or more of them to shame, Sell it on E-Bay with a high end starting price and see what happens

I don't know if i should be sticking my oar, or paddle in this case. in here. I purchased a Strip Plank Petersborough Cedar Canoe Kit from Duck Flat Wooden Boats in Adelaide, about 15 years ago....

Bet all these nice remarks make you feel gooey all over, You deserve all of them