CONTENTS:
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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
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
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