[Regia-NA] woodworking

[Wulfhere se Treowryhta]

I have made one of the horses. I've been using it for about 3 years now 
to make handles, spoons, framing pegs, wedges, etc. About the rest of 
it, yes, a little guidence is nice as long as you realize that carving 
is the process of making lots of bad pieces before you accomplish 
mediocraty. If you stick with that and your joints a blessed, you may 
become good. You have to learn to feel the wood through the blade, 
understand the limitations of the tool and that only comes from time. 
When you get it, it's like magic, because you can explain it till your 
blue in the face and it's just not that easy. It's like the local 
Archery marshall says. "Draw the arrow, aim at the center of the target, 
let the arrow go, do it that way every time." It really is that simple, 
you just need to let your body come to that knowledge through repetition.



On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 04:49 PM, Schuster, Robert L. wrote:

> howdy folks
> i know the following isn't exactly period but i thought i would share 
> anyway
> a friend asked me to get an article from an old edition of Fine Wood 
> Working for him.
> in doing so i stumbled across a couple interesting articles that i 
> thought might interest some of you on these lists too
> the main article i was after was the one on bucket making, it  was in 
> the May/June issue from 1983 and the other articles i got where from 
> issues ranging from various months in 1983 also
>
> you can see them at 
> http://www.missouri.edu/~winsloww/temp/FWW/Vol%2038-43,%201983/
>
> Halvgrimr
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