Letter openers with a twist

Top to bottom:  Spotted Gum with leather strip, Camphor Laurel, Walnut with leather strip,                                                            Spotted Gum with Birdseye Huon Pine handle

                      

Making a plane

Stephen has started making his own planes - this is his first along with a mallet for tapping the wedge into place

A different view of the May Mouse

A mouse for May and Dina's birthday

My Bear

My Bear - known to family as Pooh Two - is off to a Beginners Carving competion.  Entries have now closed and judging begins on the 15th of May - will keep you posted and send a link.

The Tudor Rose in Sirian Cedar

Such a beautiful piece, such wooly wood!  My girlfriend Cheryl loves roses - so for her birthday I made her a Tudor Rose.  Happy Birthday Cheryl
The history of the Tudor Rose -
When Henry Tudor took the crown of England from Richard III in battle, he brought about the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster (whose badge was a red rose) and the House of York (whose badge was a white rose). His father was Edmund Tudor from the House of Richmond, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. In fact, Richard III fought under the banner of the boar, and Henry under the banner of the dragon of his native Wales. On his marriage, Henry VII adopted the Tudor rose badge conjoining the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster.

There's a Bear - in that piece of wood - I know it!

First there was a block of wood -

Then a lot of carving and lessons -

Then I got the hang of it and tried some boot polish -