re: Old Time DIY

Thanks much Madts, Abbas, L/W and Jan. Another fun project. I’ve always wanted to carve, but I made the mistake of trying relief carving which is really much more difficult, to me at least. One thing that has always ‘worried’ me about carving is the need to cut with the grain. Grain direction related to your tool edge is not always so obvious, but I have found that you can easily feel when a cut is going against the grain and then you just have to reverse the direction, or in some cases just roll your chisel to cut with the opposite edge of the tool. A no brainer approach that makes life carving more enjoyable.