Tag Archives: carving

Ask an AI: whittling or wood carving?

Posted on June 19, 2023 by jmischel

A friend of mine asked a generative AI (Nova: Powered by ChatGPT & GPT 3.5 Turbo) about the difference between whittling and wood carving. This is the response she got: Wood carving and whittling have been practised for thousands of … Continue reading →

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Unloading

Posted on November 22, 2022 by jmischel

Upon return from the sawmill I was faced with the daunting task of unloading those big pieces of wood from the trailer. The smaller piece, of course, was no problem. At less that 200 pounds, getting it off the trailer … Continue reading →

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Sawmill Day

Posted on November 17, 2022 by jmischel

The nice thing about the sawmill is that they have tools to handle these big logs. Bill’s truck with the boom on it easily picked the Ash trunk off my trailer. We also used it to move the log into … Continue reading →

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Loading the Ash trunk

Posted on November 15, 2022 by jmischel

I’ve been trying to obtain a very large piece of wood for a project. It turns out that getting a piece of wood that’s 36 inches in diameter and three or four feet long isn’t all that easy if you … Continue reading →

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Wedding bowls

Posted on November 11, 2022 by jmischel

Back in May I decided to make a couple of bowls for my niece’s wedding in late July. Finding wood to make bowls from is no problem: we lost an Arizona Ash tree in the Icepocalypse of 2021, and there’s … Continue reading →

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