
David Fisher Carving Explorations
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Welcome. I hope that this website may have something to offer you, whether you are interested in making some things yourself, learning about the process, or purchasing something that I have made.
David Fisher Carving Explorations
2w ago
With about six more weeks until my March class at Peter Galbert Workshops, I’ve designed an alternate pattern for the handles of the bowls we’ll be carving. We’ll practice the methods for both designs, and students will have the option ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
3w ago
This idea was sparked a few months ago when I restored an adze. The owner wanted a new handle and some edge reshaping. The head was made by Hans Karlsson. The owner purchased it a couple decades ago from Country ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
3w ago
We’re actually having a winter this year. No grass in sight for weeks, and that’s fine with me. I like how it transforms everything. We walk familiar trails with fresh eyes. Snow seems to defy gravity. Even around the camp ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
1M ago
This is the bowl I was carving in a post in early November. It was nice to carve 2025 on the foot. 4s aren’t as interesting to carve. I decided to do a small painted scene on the foot of ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
1M ago
I just finished this little cherry whiskey cup (or kuksa or whatever you want to call it) requested by a friend. It holds about four ounces, more than enough to toast the new year. After making some big bowls recently ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
1M ago
The perfect surface goneCriss-crossed and written onWhere the wild creatures rangedWhile the moon rose and shone. May Sarton, “December Moon” from Coming Into Eighty Looks like it will be a white Christmas here this year. The bird tracks in the ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
2M ago
About a month ago I wrote a post about laying out this walnut bowl to account for the shrinking that would come with drying. Well, I got lucky and it dried pretty close to a circle, but there was still ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
2M ago
Back in February, Jon Binzen came to my shop and shot photos as I carved a bowl from a board. It will all be in the next issue (#315) of Fine Woodworking magazine, which should go out in a week ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
3M ago
I should take my own advice. I tell people to be careful to look for the tiniest checks in the end grain of a log because they will open up as the bowl dries. If a log section has been ..read more
David Fisher Carving Explorations
3M ago
My workshop is our attached garage at one end of the house. While it’s not an idyllic cabin-shop among the trees, I did get pretty lucky that there is a grove of quaking aspens just outside one window. For much ..read more