Chip carving is a great hobby for a number of reasons.
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It doesn't take any artistic ability.
In months, not years, you can create
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It's affordable to get started.
Chip carving goes where you go! No shop required! and another...
Chip carved items make great gifts.
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This past week I was busy carving three picture frames. Shelley's Aunt Florence passed away a couple of weeks ago. She
and her husband Al (deceased) had three boys. Her family has been very gracious to Shelley's family over the years so we wanted to give each of the boys a frame that they could use to put a favorite picture of their mom inside.
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Marty I finally had time to get my scary sharp system set up. Oh my goodness that is really an excellent sharpening system!!! Thank you so much really made carving through butternut much easier and I love that wood. Anyway just wanted to let you know and thank you for putting together such a great
system.
Terri sent these chip carved sports pins/magnets to me and I instantly connected. I had always meant to carve some large team logos from EZboard. Terri did it in basswood and I'm sure whoever got them appreciates them as much as I do! Well done.
Ed Gueze, Master Clog Carver
I'm always amazed at Ed's work!
Ed Knapp is all KEYED up!
Marty:  You got me! I can't resist the opportunity to show off what I've been carving.  Attached is a picture of the key chains I just finished (3 sets of 3). A friend just finished a laborious project of obtaining an emergency access easement to her neighborhood, so she and her 7 neighbors will be able to escape if a forest fire is coming up their dead
end road. This is California in the third millennium so forest fire evacuation routes are something top of mind. The 8 neighbors will all get a key to the lock on the emergency exit gate to use if they need it. I figured that everyone will put the key somewhere, hoping they'll never have to use it, but when the emergency hits they'll be scrambling to find it, so I carved a keychain for each of them which is big enough and distinctive enough so they'll be able to find it quickly. I used 3 sets of
your keychain patterned blanks, and as you can see I painted a colorful band around the edge to make it stand out even more. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I made the rack out of some dowel pieces laying around. The base is half of a practice board that was also laying around! Â Also in the picture is one of your patterned projects, a key rack, that I will also give to my friend. I have to say that the key rack was challenging to carve (big wide deep curved chips) but as
usual, by the time I was finished I had mastered the challenge. Like all of my projects, I can actually see the progress I was making as my carving progressed, but the recipient won't notice that and will see the entire board as fabulous!  I'm currently carving your silverware holder which has the same pattern in both positive and negative versions, something else I find quite interesting.  Ciao! Ed Knapp
I'm really proud of Solomon, my 17-year old grandson, Bethany's oldest. He shot this 12-point buck the other day and he and his friends field dressed it and hung it up. Well done, Solomon! 🙂
