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How to Clean and Protect Your Soapstone Carvings?

Soapstone is a famous stone with many carvers, as it is soft and easy to manipulate. Made from magnesium, talc, and silicate, soapstone is also non-porous, making it excellent for long-term keeping....

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Soapstone Carving – The Easiest Way to Start Stone Carving

More and more people are discovering the hobby of stone carving, but are unsure how to get started. Many are also not too sure on the best type of stone for beginner stone carvers. So, what is the...

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Step by Step Guide to Preparing a Leather Strop

If you’ve never used a strop before, you use it after using a sharpening stone to further align the edge and polish the blade to hone it to a great degree. A strop is usually prepared by loading it...

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What is the Easiest Wood to Carve?

You've just chosen one of the greatest and most calming hobbies: woodworking. There's nothing like envisioning an image in wood and making it real, but what isn't calming is using the wrong wood to...

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Carving, Whittling and Sculpting: Do You Know the Difference?

Everyone has heard of the terms carving and sculpting. Not everyone knows the difference between them, though. Whittling is more uncommon, and I often get the question of what it means. It can get...

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Tung Oil vs Linseed Oil: What’s the Difference?

So, you have decided that you want to finish a piece of wood and have discovered that you can use different types of oil to do so. Two common options are tung and linseed oil. However, what are the...

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A long time carving hobbyist that enjoys everything from whittling to stone carving. A firm believer that you should have the right tool for the right job but shouldn't be afraid to just wing it.

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