How to Carve Drawer Pulls by Hand
There comes a time in every project with doors and drawers called “pull-gatory,” when the struggle of sticking something onto the front of the beautiful piece you’ve just made grinds [...]
CAD to CAM to CNC: Part Seven — Programming a CNC for 3D Carving
My last several posts have been about how the BARN workbench vise chops were designed. In this post, I’ll show you how the CNC was programmed for machining with CAM software. I use RhinoCAM [...]
Popular Woodworking in America: Interview with Mary May
Mary May has been a professional woodcarver for more than 25 years. She studied with a variety of European master carvers to learn the traditional techniques that have been used for centuries. [...]
Video Short with Mary May
As editors, we search our two web sites (popularwoodworking.com and shopwoodworking.com) constantly for information for the online extras portion of all articles and most columns – the [...]
Watch Mary May Carve a Linenfold Panel
Woodworkers are visual people. Tell a woodworker how to do something (myself included) and you may have to tell them more than a couple of times. If, however, you show a woodworker how things are [...]
Acanthus Carving & Windsor Chairmaking
The October 2012 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine is now available in our store (in both print and digital versions). Inside (along with many other techniques, tools and projects) [...]
Video: Sharpen the Tricky V-chisel
I spent Saturday watching and photographing carver Mary May teach a class on ball-and-claw feet at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro, N.C. Mary, a traditionally trained professional carver, [...]
Modern Master Reproduces a Period Master
Readers in the New York area shouldn’t miss the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibit “Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York,” which is slated to run through May 6, [...]
Stealing Away to the Shop
Wrapping up the last details on a piece I’ve been building for the April issue, I had a nice surprise last weekend: Stealing away a few minutes while my kids took a nap (or a least [...]
Two Cherries Five Small Carving Tools & Leather Pouch
Here's a great gift idea for the beginning wood carver! Have you ever needed a very small carving tool for working in limited access or on very small pieces of work? Finally, Two Cherries [...]
Decorative Carving
I’ve been making these wine bottle stoppers as gifts for the holiday season. They are a lot of fun to make on the lathe and it doesn’t take very long to knock a few of them out. I use [...]