I carve wood. 

The hand tools I use are woodcarving chisels and a woodcarvers mallet.

On anything but the smallest of carvings I swing the mallet, to hit the chisel handle, to direct the cutting edge, to shape the wood.

That's where the title of this blog comes from.

Here are some images of my work.

Black Heron

Carved from Sycamore, stained black, sealed with danish oil and finished with beeswax.

Mounted on a steel support.

The base is a turned spalted beech sphere on a turned mahogany platform.

Black Swallow

Swallow carved from Lime, stained black.

Mounted on a carved Iroko support.

Sealed with danish oil and finished with beeswax.

Innerflow

Carved from spalted sycamore, part stained black.

Sealed with danish oil and finished with beeswax.

Mounted on polished stone.

More later