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Dennis’ family

Dennis Smyth has been working on the production of a set of folk carvings and brought the full set into the Wormshill carving session at the weekend. It is quite a set, as these photographs show. It is the result of about a year’s work, initially working from a book.

Lockdown carvings by Ray Dean

Glen asked me to put these photos forward for inclusion on the Kent Woodcarvers website as they are quite different to other members’ carvings. They are mathematical geometric shapes called oloids which have one surface and two edges, which ideally should be knife edges. The story behind these carvings started with an article in the …
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We’re back to shows

After the “interesting times” of lockdown we are managing to get back to shows again. The first was at Belmont House, with the following photos from the show taken by Phil:

Wood Warlock Work

I’m Dick Baugh from the Hamlet Wood group. I see from the newsletter that you have requested pictures of recent work so have taken the liberty of attaching photo’s of a couple of projects commissioned during the lockdown. One is a carved mantle for a cottage in Harrietsham and the other is a house sign …
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New Maori necklaces from Glen

I’ve attached a photo of a couple of necklaces based on traditional Maori symbols. The hei-matau or fish hook represents strength, prosperity, abundance, fertility and respect for the sea. The pokorua or twist represents the journey of life, love, friendship, loyalty, eternity and the joining of two people/cultures.