LINKS PAGE

          CONTENTS:  click below - or scroll down
1a. Woodcarving Tutorials
1b. Woodcarving Links

2.  Courses in Spoon Carving, Carving, & Woodworking
3.  Green Woodworking
4.  Interesting sites
5.  Spoons from the World
(100 websites!)
6.  Knife Making


  1a.YouTube Woodcarving Videos (requires high speed internet)
My short tutorial on spoon hook knife
My tutorial on stropping a hook knife
New 3/'09
Axe and knife work for Spoons & Ladles
Birch Bark Canoe Builder

Fan Bird Carver Japan- Sasano bori
Japanese letter carver
Battle of the Bowls - Foot versus Electric
Spoon Carver - Romanian
Vintage 1920's films of Swedish Wood Craftsmen at work, fantastic!
new link 10/'09
Miniature Woodcarvings - watch all 8 of Tomasheks videos New 1 / 09
Harley Refsal Woodcarving new 10/'09

1b.WOODCARVING

Norwegian Figure Carver
Miniature Articulated Wood Dolls Awesome!
New 10/09
Fred Cogelow Master CarverNew 10/09
Maori Master Carver
Lyonel of New Zealand, incredible!
New Zealand Woodcarver & Turner Our dear friend Graeme's wonderful work
Drew Langsner's Carved Bowls

Traditional Finnish Carver new 7/09
Alaska Woodcarver
  
Mary's Marbled Wood
- carved birds & turnings with Turkish marbling ..
Janel Jacobson Netsuke's Her work leaves me speechless..
The Carving Path Netsuke & Miniature Carver's site
Incredible Miniature Carved Animals
Fan Carving
Harley Refsal
Finnish Woodworker

Folk Figures of Norway A+ Site!
Carving Magazine
My Favorite WoodTurner/Carver
Pencil Carving?! Folks, you've got to see this one....
'Husflid' Norwegian Craft Magazine in Norwegian Language
Northwest Woodcarvers Association

Sculptor / Painter She is a stone sculptor, painter, and a dear friend - she is a person who draws from a very deep well.
Carving Magazine Online A new Woodcarving Magazine
Woodcarving Illustrated A great woodcarvers' magazine. See their review of our tools in our WCI Review page.
Chip Chats Is the magazine of the National Woodcarvers Association.
The Healing Art of Craft , Harley Refsal, the woodcarver, is looking for true stories for an anthology he is editing.
Chris Pye Woodcarving A wonderful site for woodcarvers
Carved Furniture Exquisite patterning
Carved miniature animals and figures by Steve Tomashek.
Jogge Sundquist is one of the principle exponents of traditional and contemporary craft in Sweden.  
Driftwood Carvers is more than driftwood
Northwest Style Joseph Albert
Carved Seeds

Hand Hewn Bowls
All Things Wood and Wonderful A Great Links Page
Woodcarvers Web Internet resource
Minnesota Woodcarvers
Mid-America Woodcarvers Assoc
Bob Lockhart Sculpture one incredible fellow
Museum of Woodworking Tools this section on sharpening
MatoSha Intricate jig-sawn patterns of Native and Northern themes, by our Lakota friend Charlie, Wonderful Gifts!
Toys Kids Can Play With

Tim Runyan
Amazing Clay Sculptor in Minnesota
Hiwaiian Stone Sculpture / Painter Friend - Incredible work



2.COURSES in SPOON CARVING, CARVING, & WOODWORKING :
Earthcraft UK New 10/09
Michigan Folk School new 5/ '09
Spoon, Basketry, Snowshoes...new 5/ '09
Milan Village Arts School in Minnesota Spoon Carver's Gathering - June 2009!
Robin Wood, England, Teaches Spoon and Bowl Carving
Windsor Chair school and tools

Marc Adams School of Woodworking an excellent school of fine woodworking
Barry Gordon Spooncarver / Teacher -Individual Spooncarving Instruction - Highly Recommended
American Swedish Institute Harley Refsal and Judy Ritger teach here
North House Folk School is a wonderful traditional crafts school right on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Country Workshops holds classes in traditional Scandinavian woodcrafts. They have a fine catalog as well.
Vesterheim Museum Harley Refsal and Judy Ritger teach here
John C Campbell Folk School Many carvers teach here
Woodcraft Supply Stores Click here, type in your zip code , and see what classes are near you
Fletcher Farms Art / Craft School in Vermont
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship School in Maine USA
"The Clearing Folk School "- This Wisconsin Center has woodcarving classes also.
Norskedalen Heritage Center Wisconsin
Woodworking School, Norwalk, CT, USA

Yestermorrow Design & Build School
Kulturhus Norwegian Center in Minnesota
Saterglantan - Swedens principle craft school
Michigan Woodcarver Teacher
New 7/09

                                                        Please send me info (url's) on other schools I can add here
3.GREEN WOODWORKING
Traditional Woodworking - Facebook New 10/09
Ash baskets, Birch Bark Canoes, Snowshoes, Toboggans... New 5 / '09
Shrink Boxes
Wood Splint Basketry  
Fine Rustic Furniture by our neighbor
Hand Hewing Craftsman
Swedish Slojd Carver
Green Woodworking in the UK, Great resource for pole lathe, coppice, furniture, etc...
Woodlanders These Folk have a great time - Crafts from the Forest - U.S.
John Alexander
A great author and researcher of green-woodworking and furniture making in US
Making a green willow whistle new
Jogge Sundquist is one of the principle exponents of traditional and contemporary craft in Sweden.
Woodsmiths Store UK  

Maurice Pyle Woodsmith UK


4. INTERESTING SITES:
Scrollsaw, a generous site with lots of instruction new 10/09
The Village Carpenternew 10/09
Wooden Knife Sheaths
Making Wooden Knife Sheaths
Handmade Clothing by our dear friend

Southern Highlands Craft Guild
Freecycle thousands of communities have email based recycling, works great!
Gregg Rochester's Paintings Warm, Rich, Deep, Silence, Gentleness,..........
Grizzly Heart is the latest book by Charlie and Maureen who lived among the brown bears in the Kamchatka Penninsula, a most beautiful and thought provoking site.
Alan Lacer is one of this countries' most capable woodturning teachers, and a great guy. His new woodturning videos here.
West Africa and South America travel is the focus of this rare site by a rare fellow....Dudley Parkinson.....his travel business is dedicated to connecting 'modern world' people with people elsewhere. 
Delightful Little Animals out of imagination and cloth, by our friend Alice.
Unusual Rustic Furniture by Duane Shoup.
NAFEX Fruit growers and propagators of new and forgotten fruit varieties.
Puzzle Boxes from Japan and more, some exquisite work.
Norwegian Kicksleds - Minnesota We have one , they're Great!
MatoSha Charlie, our Lakota friends' wonderful intricatly jig-sawn patterns in pine of Native and Northern themes, Wonderful Gifts!
Chalk and Concrete,amazing!
scroll down to 'Anamorphic Drawings'
Sand Sculpture
Dust Collection Site
Pandora Online Radio - your own custom radio station - for free
Yurt Foundation
Our Orchard
Little Norway



5.SPOONS
Spoons Around the World
FACEBOOK - Spooncarvers New 10/09
Spoon Carving UK
Holland Spoon Carver
Stuart King's Spoon Collection
Anders in Sweden
Swedish Carver
Sierra Woodworks, UK
Incredible World Collection
Romanian Spoons

Lithuaniuan Spoons
Ancient Peruvian Spoons
Welsh Love Spoons
Hungarian and English Spoons
Coconut Spoons

African Spoons
Norwegian
Ancient
N. American Native
Ivory Coast
Turkish
African Musical (scroll down)
Musical
Canadian
Russian Kholoma
Central Asia
Finnish Carved Cups +nature photography
Charm Spoons, Australian
World Spoons Gallery - England

Sea Shell
Horn
Fine Welsh Love Spoons & Brooms
Romanian Spoon Seller
N.American Spoons
Spoon Carvers site, wonderful
New Spoon carver New 2 / 09
New Welsh Love Spoon Book
Tried and True Good Finish for eating spoons
Welsh Love Spoons, Canada
Chester Basils Spoons
Meb's Kitchenwares Conneticut
Spiral Spoons
Spoons by Tom Crowl
Florida Spoon Carver
Campbell Bosworth Spooncarver
Coog Instruments & Spoons
Alaskan Carver, Great Variety
James Loyd, Ozark Spoon Carver
Mountian Made - W. Virginia
Canadian Spoon Carver
Spoon Carver Barry Gordon Beautiful Work!
Spoon Exchange
 Interesting Idea
Unique Kolrosing and Useful Spoons

Allegheny Treenware
Canadian made Ladles by Ken Pettigrew
Spoon Lady

Blueberry Hill
Maine Spooncarver-John Spinney
Scuptural Spoons by Norm Sartorius
Early American Treenware
Cooking Spoons
Steve Emma Spoons
Steven Fletcher Spoons
William Chappelow Spoons
Spoons from the Mary Rose
Love Spoons
Oregon Maker
Spoon Patterns
Jas. Townsend and Son

Musical
Michigan Spoons
Missouri, Spoon & Bowl Carver
Alleghany Treenware
Kitchenwares, Maryland
Aki Yamamoto Carver, Canada
Kitchenwares
The Spoon Guy
Tim Runyan Incredible!
Sami Carvers of Lapland
Guksi Engraved Antler and Birch cup
Reindeer Antler

Guksi to Hang on One's Belt
Sami Duodji 'the Art of Lapland'
Sami Craft

Lapland Wedding Spoons
Sami Slojd

Polar Art Sweden (go to 'Handicraft')
Sami Art Retailer
Handwork Retailer
Birch Kosas


6.KNIFE MAKING
I have just started this catagory, so if you're a knife maker do send helpful links to add

Custom Water-jet Contour Cutting of Knife Blanks Dave does great work
Uddeholm Steel  for  '01' flatground steel and drill rod I go here
Home made carving tools
new 5 / '09


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