English Woodcarving #204

Issue 204 of Woodcarving magazine is filled with a host of great articles for you.

Our Guest Editor, Dave Western, welcomes you to this issue; carves a Celtic-style dragon; and meets scientist-turned-woodworker Kristin LeVier.

In our Projects section, Steve Bisco carves a delicate lily flower in limewood; Colin Burlton makes a mouse door wedge; Cedric Boyns carves a relief of a squirrel; Kevin Alviti adds a carved decoration to a birdbox; John Samworth continues his series on relief carving from photographs with a hunter’s moon scene; Michael Mason combines modern techniques and indigenous designs to make a Northwest Coast house pole; Zoë Gertner carves a sleeping dog in a basket; and Peter Benson practises carving faces with a festive Santa figure.

In Techniques, Nic Westermann experiments with Twca cams; and Graham Thompson discusses portrait carving techniques.

In Features, Diane Colley, President of the AWC reports back on this year’s International Woodcarvers Congress; and we look at an 18th-century monkey netsuke carving by Masanao of Kyoto.