Archive for January, 2012

Call For Entries: 2012 Best Carving Design Contest

Do you have a great new carving you’d like to share with the world? We invite you to enter your original designs in the 2012 Best Carving Design Contest. You’ll compete for prizes, recognition, and the chance to become Woodcarving Illustrated’s newest contributor. Plus, everyone who participates has a chance […]

by January 25, 2012 0 comments Best Carving Design Contest Archive

Folding Carving Bench: 3D Model

In Woodcarving Illustrated Spring 2012 (Issue 58), Jack Schmauch showed how to create a folding carving bench. Scroll down to find a 3D SketchUp Model that allows you to rotate the piece and see it from any angle. You MUST download the free SketchUp program or the free SketchUp Viewer […]

by January 25, 2012 0 comments Tools & Materials, Videos

Motivated to Create: The Importance of Painting

With distinctive down-home features, peculiarities of figure, and deliberately exaggerated faces, carvings by Phil and Vicki Bishop are designed to evoke smiles and keep us from taking life too seriously. In the Woodcarving Illustrated Spring 2012 (Issue 58), the pair share their story and inspirations. Although Phil and Vicki, a […]

by January 18, 2012 0 comments Features

Making Custom Colors

By Robert Triplett and Bob Duncan It can be difficult to find the perfect dye or stain color for your project. Instead of searching the stores or settling for something other than what you envisioned, you can create the exact color you want. In the Spring 2011 issue of Woodcarving […]

by January 17, 2012 0 comments Techniques

Free Pyrography Seminar Patterns

This seminar will be an interactive message board thread where you can post throughout the day with you questions, ideas, comments, and with the sharing of your techniques and experiences in pyro. It will be a chance for all of us – newbies through advanced wood burners – to get […]

by January 10, 2012 0 comments Projects

Winter Birdhouse Patterns

I thought that I would do a burning that could be used as a Holiday present. So I chose a winter bird house scene with a nuthatch, gold finch, chickadee and acorn, berry and holly trim. That way it will be a fun decoration all winter long. Download the patterns […]

by January 9, 2012 0 comments Projects