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+1 for 600mm sq LED panels. I put six in my white walled single garage and that is bright. I also have them in my workshop one over the bandsaw and one over the planer/thicknesser. I still use protected fluorescent tubes on the ceiling edges where tables are against the wall to prevent working...

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+1 for using a strop. I have been woodcarving regularly for a few months and following Doug Linker’s advice (YouTube carver) have never used a stone on my knives. Just strop every so often and look after your knives. They are ‘scary sharp’. Obviously if the blade gets damaged then stones are...

BAC is also used as a preservative in eye drops (second largest ingredient in Optrex) and has been proved to affect the cornea!! ......and you can use it to clean your patio? !!

Yes exactly. I found this too.

Latest little guy carving......using just a Flexcut detail knife

My son is a vet student (4th year) and loves watching owls. One night we had friends round for dinner (so over a year ago!) and he said we should come outside....he was playing a tawny owl recording from his phone over a Bluetooth speaker in the garden. Within minutes there were two adult...

Don’t rush to throw it all over your garden. Sawdust has a much higher surface area than bark etc (a great mulch and weed preventer) and will certainly affect the availability of nitrogen to your plants. Composting it is fine but takes years.

Now painted.....and gave him a friend!

Another little guy although slightly larger and thus more time consuming. Experimenting with rolled-up sleeves, draped trousers over boots, hair texture, bare arms, dungarees! Currently painting him - very slow to paint as so much detail to cover with 00 brush!

A local roofer scraped the moss off our roof. I then filled a couple of hand garden sprayers with ‘Wet and Forget’ (Google it) which is sprayed on and left. The moss didn’t return for two years after which it had a quick scrape again in places and it was sprayed again. Another two years comes to...

Painted my little guy and made a Linker bear too! The bear took ages because it was that bit larger than previous carvings. There is some sort of spalting running the through the lime which was interesting but in the bear as I only painted the nose, mouth and eyes it shows through the linseed...

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I have a couple of flats in a block and their front doors need replacing with firedoors. I have had a quote which seems expensive but it may be fair! Does anyone here fit firedoors? Is this a fair price do you think? To Supply: Certified Sapele veneered solid core FD30 doors lipped all round...

.....here is the little guy. Beanie hat turned out better having added the ribbing with a V-tool. His coat and trousers will be a dirty yellow (antiqued), black boots, dark blue beanie, etc. This was an offcut 25x25x70mm so quite small but shows you can make something from nothing!

Yes I too have watched Sharon carving her little guys. There are a few generous carvers showing their skills and techniques on YouTube. You pick up tips from all of them. I made a little guy last night which I will post later. I had a lime offcut and thought of doing a fisherman but couldn’t...

Painted now along the same lines as Doug Linker suggested. Next one I make I will create texture/feathers in the wing, back and head. This will paint better as you can paint the dark colour into the texture first and then ‘dry-brush’ a lighter colour over the top to create depth and shadow...

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That is a great summary of carving woods thank you. I originally bought two blocks of lime from Ebay (100x100x50) for £16 delivered to get started. I then contacted My usual timber supplier, Robbins Timber in Bristol, and they carry boards of Lime so I bought unfinished 44mm x 180mm x 2.4m for...

Made this little guy last night from a YouTube Doug Linker video. He is brilliant if you want to carve little guy caricatures. Now just need to paint it.