There is an old wise saying: “Life is full of endings, but it is never The End for with every ending there is always a new beginning.” Such a wise observation fits every experience of life if only we resolve to “begin again.”
The WOOD BEE CARVER has as one of his sayings: “Woodcarving is more the journey than the destination,” which means that satisfaction does not come at the end with the completed carving. Satisfaction comes while doing the carving project so when the carver comes to the end with a completed carving there is the eager anticipation to “begin again“ with another carving project. Read the rest of this entry »
The WOOD BEE CARVER offers a tip for making an inexpensive Tool Caddy to receive twenty three palm carving tools made out of a 4 X 6 Index Box that can be purchased from Staples for under $7.00. The “WOOD BEE CARVER TOOL CADDY – Photo Trail” photos are a visual path beginning with photo one showing the Tool Caddy holding 23 palm tools.
Photo two shows eighteen tools at home in the Tool Caddy with five tools in front waiting to be placed in their respective holes. The five tools in front have had their handles dipped in Plastic Dip to create non-slip handles. Read the rest of this entry »
“WOULD BE CARVERS WOULD BE CARVERS IF THEY WOULD CARVE WOOD.”
The WOOD BEE CARVER, Donald K. Mertz has used the statement above as his philosophy for the experience of carving wood. A part of this philosophy’s meaning is that one is always learning, always a “would be” in the process of growing and becoming.
The experience of wood carving, like so many other activities is learned primarily in the doing and the more one does the more one learns. It is like the old saying, “Turning the soil over in your mind will not plow the field.” Good intentions do not become good until the intention is acted upon. So it is with wood carving, or anything else one does and for that matter, living life to its fullest each day, it is in the living and the doing that we become. Read the rest of this entry »
The WOOD BEE CARVER offers a tip for making an inexpensive Tool Caddy to receive twenty three palm carving tools made out of a 4 X 6 Index Box that can be purchased from Staples for under $7.00. The “WOOD BEE CARVER TOOL CADDY – Photo Trail” photos are a visual path beginning with photo one showing the Tool Caddy holding 23 palm tools.