[Woodcarver] Gentle Dripplers:-)

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Some of the BEST posts I have seen in A looooooooooooog time!  Keep up the GOOD dripplings!

Bobby
Hush Puppy Forge and Woodworking

-----Original Message-----

>From: Wynne Simmons <wyndysim at graceba.net>

>Sent: Jan 22, 2008 8:24 PM

>To: "'[Woodcarver]'" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>

>Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Gentle Dripplers:-)

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>Jan,   (more dripple)

>

>Cheap tools are NOT a guarantee of failing to remain a carver!  I am

>living proof.  You just have to be very young, stubborn and not have

>enough sense to give up (okay, foolish).

>

>For our first anniversary, my husband gave me a set of X-acto knives

>with a wood carving pamphlet included.  He did so with extreme

>trepidation, thinking I wouldn't like the gift.  What he didn't know was

>that I'd always wanted to carve, but had no idea how to get started.

>

>This was in the days before the internet and the only carving books I

>could find were Tangerman's and a Sunset book on carving.  What I'd have

>given for the resources available now!

>

>Anyway, I ordered a box of exotic wood pieces and carved away.  I did

>everything wrong!  But amazingly, recognizable shapes appeared.  First,

>I dulled my blades on a bear I carved from a piece of 2x4 that I cut and

>glued together.  

>

>Then I used the hardest woods that were in the box because they were the

>prettiest.  The blades were disposable, so sharpening never occurred to

>me.  Unfortunately, we were on such a strict budget, I couldn't afford

>to splurge on new blades, so I used a blade until I could gnaw the wood

>with my teeth easier than cut it with the knife.  I found it very

>rewarding.  (Yes, I'm easily amused.)  

>

>Then I discovered sharp tools.  What a difference!  

>

>Wyndy

>Ashford, Alabama

>wyndysim at graceba.net

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>

>But VERY cheap trools are a guaranty of failing to stay a carver

>

>I remember a lady asking about MARPLES tools and one answer was "great

>can 

>openers "

>so she GIVE them to her grandson

>than the response was " You don't like your grandson?"

>Bad tools (cheap) are the most discouraging thing to have for a carver

>that's my three cents wort

>                                   Woodbutcher Jan

>

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