Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:13:03 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Woodworking: lumber yards & specialty store


The Haida are wonderful carvers.  The NW art sculptors use double
edged curved carving knives which are very strange feeling to most
wood carvers.  Some contemporary NW carvers carve smaller masks in red
cedar while it's "green" and microwave the wood immediately after
carving to dry the wood with out the wood checking.  I've not tried
it.  Your safety tip sounds good.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Caro Stewart <taocila-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:
> When you carve towards your chest, legs, abdomen or hands/arms and that will happen thousands of times, make sure your blade has a slightly circular movement and you lift it by the time the blade got to the end of the cut. This is a very good safety tip which I learned from the Native carvers of cedar Totem Poles, Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands.
> Carolina
>
> --- On Tue, 12/30/08, Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Woodworking: lumber yards & specialty stores
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 4:57 AM
>
> So my wood shop teacher gave me one piece of advice that may seem
> silly but when I have ignored it has meant stitches at the hospital.
> It is very simple,  "Don't put anything in front of the blade that you
> don't want to cut off"  So take it nice and easy and don't get in
> a
> hurry unless its sandpapering.  Good Luck.
>
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