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Aug 21 2021

Wood Carving Relief Project – Canada Goose

Relief Wood Carving – the fine art of using chisels, gouges, and knives to remove small chips from a flat wood board to create a three dimensional design. That design can be worked as a low relief with smooth side walls to each element, a high relief carving where undercuts are made on higher elements to cast shadows on lower elements, and in intaglio where the design is cut in reverse – down into the wood to create a mold.

Please click “Wood Carving” in the navigation bar above to learn more about Relief Wood Carving.

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Aug 9 2021

Sepia Tonal Value Crayons for Pyrography

Pyrography Basics / By irish

Crayons are a quick and easy media to use on your printed patterns when you want to test your tonal values before you begin your pyrography burn.

While browsing through the Back to School supplies at my local big box store I came across Crayola’s 24 pack of Colors of the World skin toned crayons. This same palette of colors is also available from Crayola as marking pens – Crayola Ultra Clean Washable Multicultural Markers, Broad Line, 10 Count, and in colored pencil media – Crayola 24 Colors of The World Skin Tone Pencils.

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All these packs hold a range of yellow-brown, red-brown, and neutral brown color giving us, pyrographers, a full sepia scale to compliment our burnings.

Before you touch your wood watercolor paper, or gourds with your pen, use can use these color packs to establish exactly where you want your shading and how light or dark you want it.

Any mistakes or any decisions to change an area’s value is worked out on paper, not on your expensive basswood plaque.

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Jul 21 2021

How to install a new HVAC duct

What's Happening at ADS / By irish

AWOL … but with a really good excuse.

So … with my husband gone all tasks fall on my senior citizen, little old round mamma shoulders. Today’s task was to replace the old, rotten, holey HVAC duct work with a new, insulated pipe. Now this is a task that I would have been assigned even when he was alive, but I would have had his guidance, support, and encouragement as I worked. Plus he would have noticed that if after three hours I hadn’t returned there might be something a miss and that maybe he might want to call 911.

And … YouTube has assured me that its an easy, know nothing, Harry Home Owner job … ?!?

I’m ready! I have done my homework, have my tools gathered, have the new duct in hand,
lots of rolls of Duct Tape, and even have a new tube of Neosporin in the medicine cabinet. I open the covering to the crawl space, light my LED lamp, and start the belly (snake) walk under the house.

The crawl space starts out at a nice 18″ depth but slowly drops as I near the AC unit. The HVAC people who replace the outside unit two years ago forgot … yea! … to connect the drain pipe to the AC so all the old, musty dirt under the house is standing in water. There’s sour mud everywhere.

When I do get to the HVAC opening I have less than 12″ of head space. I can’t lay down because I can’t move my arms enough to work on the duct. So I am crunched against the I-beam that, of course, is just before the furnace. Half on my knees, half on my belly, half on my elbows trying to cut the banding straps that hold the old duct line in place and get the new one into position.

I am wet, I am muddy, and I am twisted up into a pretzel, all while trying to hold up the new duct against the metal opening with one hand while trying to tighten the pipe clamp with the other and, of course, I have gotten the pipe clamp backwards so I am having to use my non-dominate hand to sllllloooowwwwwlllly screw the D#@% thing tight. Its one turn per 1/8″ and I, of course, got the extra large clamp to make sure I had enough …. AHHHH!

The slimy, musty dirt mud has now seeped beyond my blue jeans butt into my extra long blue jean shirt which is tucked into my pants … my nose is plastered against the I-beam to get my hands close enough to keep screwing the clamp … but the worst thing is my glasses are steaming up and the sweat in puddling where my glasses lie on my cheeks. I can not see a thing.

AN HOUR …. It took me an hour to get just the first end on the new HVAC duct into place. At least I hope it is in place but won’t know until I have done the other end and snake bellied out of this nasty, nasty place in which I am trapped.

One more end to do and surely I have learned something about this job so that the second side doesn’t take so long. I have a little more head room, at least a glorious 14″ from the floor and this time the I-beam is behind the duct and not right in front of my nose.

Very, very ,very carefully I set the pipe clamp so that it will be in the right position for my dominate hand and, of course, after pushing, squeezing, squirming the new duct over the outlet I realize I have once again gotten the screw backwards.

But …. Success! …. This side only takes 58 minutes!!!!! The mud has now passed the blue jean, the blue jean shirt and has totally saturated my undies and I won’t even try to describe how I smell. Its time to snake belly out of this muck, go back inside, turn on the AC and hold my breathe hoping neither end of the duct pipe blows off when the AC kicks in.

AIR! I’ve got AIR!!!!! I know that I have to crawl back under the crawl space to put the insulation over the new duct work, but I – have – AIR!

My Dad taught me long ago that all five minute jobs take one and a half hours, two trips
to the hardware store, at least three Band-Aids, and a lot of cussing.

I did it in two hours, with only three orders to Amazon, no Band-Aids, and having only ruined my old jeans, old jean shirt, and a pair of undies …

The reason I am sharing my sad Perils of Pauline tale with you today is that I, a hard core feminist, have to admit that the job I did today – a traditionally Harry not Harriet job – was harder than delivering my 8 lb. 13 oz. son … at least during the birth of my son they gave me good drugs!

I AM WOMAN, HEAR ME CUSS!

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Jun 9 2021

Wood Carving Techniques

What's Happening at ADS / By irish

LSIrish.com has 146 articles, posts, pages, and projects dedicated to wood carving.

Basic Wood Carving Techniques – 69
Beginners Relief Carving Projects – 26
Relief Carving Projects – 26
Chip Carving – 21
Spoon Carving – 14
Scroll Saw – 14

Wood Carving Basics	Walking Sticks	Chip Carving	Mule Deer Relief
American Heroes	Chip Carving Patterns	Altered Art	Spoon Carving
Scroll Saw	Basic Tool Kit	Cane Carving	Wizard Wands
Snake Cane	Chip Carving Motifs	Fish Decoys	Finishing Steps
High Relief Shadows	Celtic Dragon	Birch Bark Carving	Tiki Chess Set
Canada Goose	Stop Cuts	Sharpening

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Jun 3 2021

Seminars – Chip Carving, Pyrography, Spoon Carving.

What's Happening at ADS / By irish

Current, free online seminars for Chip Carving, Pyrography, and Spoon Carving.

Please remember to bookmark your opening page to the seminar, and please share the links.

CHIP CARVING	PYROGRAPHY	SPOON CARVING

Chip Carving Chip Carving Workshop Free Chip Carving Wood Carving Pattern Free Chip Carving Projects by L S Irish Back to the Basics of Wood Carving Chip Carving Common Mistakes Chip Carving – Sampler Layout Pattern Chip Carved Chess and Game Board Chip Carving – Straight-Wall, Curve-Wall, Free Form Chip Carving – Cutting Triangle and Square Chips Chip Carving Hand Positions and Grips Chip Carving Graphed Patterns Chip Carving Supplies Chip Carving Seminar Free Chip Carving Pattern Sharpening Your Chip Knives Positive and Negative Space in Chip Carving Chip Carving Shortbread Cookies Sharpening Your Chip Knives	Pyrography Landscape Pyrography 1 Definition of Pyrography 2 Safety 3 Basic Tool Kit 4 Wood Burning Systems 5 One-Temperature 6 Rheostat Tools 7 Variable Temperature Tools 8 Wood Burning Pen 9 Hand Grip Positions 10 Loop Tip Pen 11 Ball Tip Pen 12 Spear Shader 13 Spoon Shader Pen 14 Practice Board 15 Wood Burning Media 16 General Kit Supplies 17 Cleaning Your Tips0 18 Grain Direction 19 Sanding the Wood Blank 20 Transferring the Pattern 21 Graphite on an Irregular Shape 22 Pencil Graphite Rubbing 23 Pattern Re-Alignment Marks 24 Tonal Values- 27 Finishing 25 Patina 27 Working a Sepia Value Pattern 28 Rooster Celtic Knot Project	Spoon Carving Art of Spoon Carving Four Methods to Cutting a Wooden Spoon Blank Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving The Art of Spoon Carving by Lora S. Irish Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon Styles of Wood Carved Spoons Welsh Love Spoons Welsh Love Spoons Introduction Basic Cutting Techniques Carving A Chain and Ball Ball and Cage Carving
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