Issue 174

PROJECTS:

Horse head wall hanging - Mark Cough carves a wall-mounted animal mask
Cibbons-style applique panel - Steve Bisco mounts limewood foliage on an oak panel, in the style of Grinling Gibbons
Relief panel - Terry Nokes carves a pink quill
Fire platter - Neil Turner gives solid form to flames through the carved design that decorates this striking rimmed piece
Carved oak burr bowl - Zoe Gertner shows how to create a relief-carved tree design on a bowl

FEATURES:
Gradual evolution - Pam Wilson shares with Mark Baker the story of how she came into carving and how she has progressed
Wat Arun Ratchawararam - One of Thailand's most familiar and formidable temples, guarded by stone Chinese statues

TECHNIQUES:
Carving the eye - In the third part of Practice Makes Perfect, Peter Benson uses a carvingstickto perfecttheeyes
Knife grips for carving wood - Adrian Lloyd shares the second in a series of articles exploring traditional carvingtechniques
‘Tree of life’ seed keeper - Glenda Bennett shows how to create an ornamented seed holder
Oriental mirror - Alan Denham shares how he created a mirror inspired by the Far East
Metis - Dave Western shows howto create a sculpture in red cedar
Carving printing blocks - Murray Taylor reflects on the different ways of carving printing blocks and the variety oftools used to produce them

COMMUNITY:
From the Editor - Uncertain times
News & events - We bring you the latest news and events from the woodcarving community
Meet the authors - Meet this month's writers
From the community - We take your letters and showcase some ofyour work from the forum
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