[Woodcarver] Waterleaf or egg and dart moldings

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Joyce,

Did Chris Pye know you were in his class on a "scholarship"????? Was
Chris the one that offered the scholarship??? And I am curious which
magazine the article is for????

Thanks, Susan

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Hi,
I hope someone can help me out.

I received a "scholarship" to attend a class on moldings taught by 
Chris Pye.  The conditions of the scholarship were that I write an 
article explaining how to make one of the moldings.  The class was 
excellent; Chris is an extraordinary teacher and great person, and I 
learned a great deal.  Problem: the article is due soon, and the 
audience is people who know a great deal about making- and carving- 
American period furniture.  I feel totally inadequate to the task! 
Everytime I try to write, I feel as if I am copying people who have 
already written excellent articles on this subject, such as Chris 
himself and Fred Wilbur.  The class used writings by Chris Pye, so 
those were my  "notes".  Also, the tools I bought to make the 
moldings are the same ones as in his article, as was the router bit. 
I can't afford to buy all new gouges and bits to vary the molding so 
it becomes "my" molding. I plan to photograph the carving stage by 
stage with instructions, so that part I am ok with.  It is the rest- 
introduction, information about which furniture to use the moldings 
on, bits of advice, etc., that has me nervous. I plan to choose 
either egg and dart or waterleaf moldings to describe.  Can anyone 
refer me to some written material so that I have more than two 
sources of information (Pye and Wilbur) to rely on?   After the long 
discussion of copyright laws, I am intimidated by not only the 
audience but by writing itself.  Maybe one of you carves these 
moldings and could share some information that is not copyrighted.

The other problem is that I have dial up internet service and I can't 
use the web as a resource because I pay by the hour and it crashes or 
doesn't work most of the time. It's fine for email; but it is way too 
expensive for me to get direct service.  So I am limited to stuff I 
can order via the library interloan service,  or buy at the bookstore.

If you have not tried carving moldings, it is great fun!  I plan to 
use some on a bookcase to dress it up.

Joyce
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