Warren carving tools
Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>My wife's sister died a few years back and Meg has stitched a sampler (not sure if this is the correct term but I think you will understand what it is) for her parents, and I usually volunteer to make the frames for her stitching. Meg usually does not mind waiting a year or so, and in fact her stitching is currently about 1.2 lifetimes ahead of my frames. Her sister collected a number of Celtic things and I have since read about such things and find Celtic art interesting. So the walnut picture frame will have an arch at the top with a simple triangular celtic knot cut in relief in the frame with the back ground lowered around the whole frame with a small bead around the inside and outside of the frame. I'll use a gouge to lower the center of the frame across grain so it will have a pretty noticeable texture on the background I think. This will be put on display at the local county fair. Of course since I only have one small carving gouge I had to get tools to do this. Looking through the LV catalog I noticed they had a large Warren carving tool set which looked like it was sufficient to tackle the carving I want to do so it will probably be here on Tuesday. Since this is some of the first carving I will attempt it should be an interesting and challenging project plus I get new toys out of the deal. Hard to beat. Last night I sharpened up the new iron I made for my scrub plane and tried it out and now I am hyped about finding a good piece of walnut out of my stash and smoothing it entirely by hand for this picture frame project. Plus I am losing sleep over the carving tool deal; I suppose if LV has them in their catalog they are worth spending the money.