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Architectural Carving
Every blog article tagged Architectural Carving.
August 7, 2026
How to Carve a Rosette in Wood
A rosette is a stylized flower carved inside a circle. Here is the whole method in basswood, from squaring the blank to modeling the petals, out of a commission for fifteen matching ones.
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August 5, 2024
How to make money from wood carving, and how much
No dollar figure, because anyone who hands you one is guessing. What you get instead is how the money behaves in this trade, taken from forty years of paid work, a cabinet shop I ran, and one order for fifteen rosettes that taught me more about pricing than any book.
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December 18, 2020
How to carve a lion head onlay like a master carver
My first paid lion head went onto a bar panel in Indiana when I was in my twenties, and I did it in the wrong order. Here is the order I use now on real commissions, from the museum research through the clay model to the seven carving stages.
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