[Woodcarver] window and door corners (chat)

[Merrilee Johnson]

Hi Joe!
   I keep thinking I need to get picture trails or something and then of 
course a new computer so I could send pictures.  The computer is coming and 
I can now get DSL at my house so maybe it is time to get the picturetrails 
also.  I'll see what I can do.  They really do look great.  She is dry 
brushing them with white paint - I cried but it is her house and at least 
she isn't painting them solid.  I'll bring them with me to Evart if I can't 
get them on line.
  I have stained 5" woodwork and this has helped convince me that I am going 
to take down one of them to carve.  While looking for designs for Linda I 
found several that I like and want to use.
I bet your woodwork would look great carved!
    How fun to beable to do 60 of them.  Were they all the same design or 
different?  Do you have pictures of them??  It doesn't seem that there 
should have been machined carving that long ago does it???  Well, what ever 
gets the job done! LOL
Merrilee




>

>Hi Merrilee,

>

>Is there a chance that you would share some photo of those window and door 

>corners? This sounds like a very interesting project.

>

>About a year ago Tina (one of my apprentices) and I carved 60 window and 

>door corners for a new addition of a very old house. There was a right and 

>left hand design and a larger middle design. The design was a simple spoon 

>carving to match the old ones in the house. The customer brought in a few 

>of the old ones (made about 1860). Being that they were almost 150 years 

>old I assumed they were hand carved. The customer was in the process of 

>stripping the many coats of paint from the old ones so we couldn't tell if 

>they were all hand carved or not. A month after we finished them the 

>customer called and said that she needed 10 more. She also said that she 

>had found one that was never installed in her attic. She brought it over. I 

>was surprised to see that it was machine done. It looked like they used a 

>template and several different router style bits.

>

>We made the new ones out of plain sawn southern yellow pine, with a very 

>wide grain pattern, to match the old ones. We had difficulty carving the 

>soft early growth part of the grain withough crushing it. We needed to 

>sharpen the chisels at a very low angle and keep them extreemly sharp to 

>keep from crushing it.

>

>My house is about 100 years old with that beautiful wide southern yellow 

>pine woodwork. I've been tempted to put some carving on it.

>

>Joe Dillett

>The Carving Shop

>645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3

>Somonauk, IL. 60552

>

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