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• Swiss Trip #6: Woodcarvings - 01-12-2011 06:09 PM | 8 comments

  We in this country will never see the carving like Europe has. Carvings in Europe were mostly mad...

• Swiss Trip #5: Flowers and fountains anyone! - 01-11-2011 07:39 PM | 3 comments

  One thing that was obvious to the wife and I was that the Swiss took pride in their flowers and f...

• Swiss Trip #4: Swiss woodwork and joinery - 01-10-2011 04:44 AM | 10 comments

  With my construction background it was only natural for me to pay special attention to some of th...

• Swiss Trip #3: Architecture at it's best - 01-08-2011 03:58 AM | 9 comments

  After about half of the tour it hit me at how much different the architecture was in Switzerland ...

• Swiss Trip #2: Swiss Doors! - 01-07-2011 07:00 PM | 16 comments

  One thing that I found in Switzerland was that there was no limit to the imagination as to what a...

• Swiss Trip #1: Tour of a lifetime - 01-07-2011 03:54 AM | 14 comments

  I’m a part of this great website because I am a woodworker and enjoy new adventures into wo...

• 2009 large chip carving #2: Lets make it larger! - 12-19-2010 02:24 PM | 21 comments

  Sorry for such a long delay on this piece. After I had this piece done I decided that it needed s...

• 2009 large chip carving #1: First phase of the carving - 07-16-2009 12:05 PM | 11 comments

  Some of you may have remembered me from the past, I do chip carving on woodworking items. Every y...

• Large picture frame commission #3: Completed - 05-01-2008 04:43 AM | 11 comments

  Well it has been a long road but I finally can see the end. Now all that is left is meeting up wi...

• Large picture frame commission #2: Carving completed - 04-15-2008 12:29 PM | 17 comments

  This weekend I managed to finish the chip carving on the frame. I dry fitted the frame to make su...

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