Kitchener-Waterloo Woodworking Show

The 22nd annual Kitchener-Waterloo Woodworking Show featuring The Canadian National Wildfowl Carving Championships is coming up March 12 - 14, 2010. If you are in the area be sure to attend.
Kitchener-Waterloo Woodworking Show

Golf Ball Carving

If anybody out there has never carved a golf ball I suggest giving it a try. You have no grain to worry about and most makes of golf balls carve nicely and they make a perfect gift for a golfer. If you want to see an excellent tutorial go to Chris Morgans Blog called The Missouri Woodcarver 
This is my first attempt at the tutorial and I will try a few more to try and improve.


Gene Messer has a good video on You Tube called Carving A Face On A Golf Ball  Give it a try also.

These were done following Genes video.

Photos From Hamilton Woodshow

I attended the Hamilton Woodshow on Friday Jan. 29/10 and spent over 3 hours looking around and making a few purchases. There was a vendor selling back issues of Woodcarving Illustrated and Carving Magazine for $10.75 so I picked up 3. I also bought a Flexcut V-tool and a small #11 gouge. There were 3 main vendors for woodcarving and  all types of woodworking equipment and seminars every hour. I have added a link to a few photos that I took of the carving competition and a few of the old airplanes. The Lancaster Bomber was so huge I could not get the whole plane in the shot.
Enjoy
http://picasaweb.google.ca/dougie8158/HamiltonWoodshowJanuary2010?feat=directlink

The 21st Annual Hamilton Woodworking Show

The Hamilton Woodworking Show and The Canadian Woodcarving Championships takes place on January 29, 30 and 31, 2010. Lots of tools, seminars, demonstrations and free admission to the Canadian Warplane Museum.

Here is the link to the Show:
Hamilton Woodworking Show & Carving Championship

My Wife & Best Friend

Happy New Year

A lot of people ask me what kind of wood I use for carving and I answer Basswood most of the time but I have tried Pine and Butternut. Pine here in Ontario is not too good for carving but I have done some carving in Butternut which is becoming scarce. It carves nice and the grain is beautiful.
I am having some problems arranging the photos  so bear with me. The carvings are Chicadees, a Free Form Goose and a Free Form Dove all in Butternut.. Any comments are very welcome.

Santa Carving

The first carving book I purchased was "Carving Santas by Ron Ransom. Cobb life magazine has done an article on Ron and I have added the link below. If you carve santas you have probably seen Ron's books. They are perfect for beginner carvers because they are fairly simple to carve. To this day I still pick up on
his books (I have at least 6 or 7) and carve one that I have not done before.

Have a look at the article and I have several of his style carvings in my gallery.

http://www.cobblifemagazine.com/detail/719.html?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=ron+ransom&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id=&page=