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Woodcarving Illustrated

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WINTER 2018

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When

You Hit

a Wall

Hung Out to Dry

Every year since 2008, I have carved

a different bird I see around the yard

as Christmas presents. It started as

a single bluebird for my wife and has

grown to 24 birds for friends and

family. While carving the birds went

quickly, painting them became a

challenge. The birds were often many

colors and took a long time to paint.

I was always dropping them or sticking

my fingers in wet paint. I had the idea

to construct a rack with cup hooks to

hang the carvings while they dried. It

has reduced my frustration and saved

a lot of rework.

Mike Carroll

Seacoast, N.H.

tips

and techniques

For some carvings, it becomes

necessary to paint a rock wall

texture. However, in small projects,

I can’t make even a small liner

work to paint the cracks between

rocks without blobbing paint

everywhere. In the middle of the

night, it came to me. I got a syringe

and needle (my good friend is a vet

and had given me some) and filled

them with watered-down black

paint. It worked like a charm.

Carolea Hower

Arkansas City, Kan.

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A shop-built drying rack takes the frustration

out of painting multiple carvings.

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A syringe filled with paint can be a real shot in the

arm to finishing narrow crevices in carvings.