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Monday, November 21st, 2016
At this time of year we are all trying to buy our friends and family beautiful and thoughtful gifts for Christmas presents.
I have been hard at work in my workshop at Taurus Crafts designing and carving especially for you. I have a very wide selection this year as I have ...
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Saturday, October 15th, 2016
My sculpture of a Brown Bear is coming along well, the limestone has a lot of fossils and hard veins of calcite through it so it is hard to progress quickly.
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As you can see I am working to identify where the forms are before I carve too much detail. ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2016
As I mentioned in my previous post I have been busy carving lots of new words for my shop, here they are on the shelves. I have also been carving some new bookends and plenty of new letters. These are incredibly popular and so if you would like some especially ...
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Thursday, October 6th, 2016
Sorry, I can hear you all groaning as I mention the word Christmas but as some of you are well aware I carve everything I sell (with the exception of my popular hessian bags and my stone paper notebooks).
I am currently working to an 8wk waiting list for commissions so ...
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
I am busy designing some lettering to carve for my shop.
The stone is sandstone from Birch Hill in the Forest of Dean. I am designing the letters as I go. These are not copied from a book but inspired by the many forms of calligraphy and my own imagination.
The letters ...
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