Oregon Carvers Guild

TUTORIALS

The guild has collected a number of tutorials and information resources, both in video and document format. The descriptive listing below provides links to these learning resource.

NAME (Link)	AUTHOR	FORMAT	DESCRIPTION
Stropping White Paper	Roger Crooks	PDF	Class handout / homework
Stropping Video	Roger Crooks	VIDEO	Companion to the white paper
Tool Buying Advice	Larry Wade	PDF	Accumulated opinions about buying tools
Work Holding Examples	Various	PDF	Collection of many examples from members
Stylized Beaver	Ruth Sheeley	PDF	Excerpt from The Mallet, How to Carve the Stylized Beaver
Paint Brushes	Kelley Stadelman	PDF	Handout from her 9/12/23 Presentation
Carving Safety Manual	Leslie Kantor	PDF	See the Safety Page for latest edition
Oregon's Carousels - Past, Present, and Future	Larry Wade	PDF	Oregon's Carousels
Comfort Animal Resources		VIDEO	Numerous Ways to Make Comfort Birds - Zoom recording 5-10-22
(click on the descriptions)	Diane Balch	PDF	Patterns of Comfort Birds, scaled (compliments Diane Balch)
	Larry Wade	VIDEO	Interview with Don Foust (75 minutes)
	Larry Wade	VIDEO	Interview with Diane Balch
	Roger Crooks	VIDEO	Basics of band sawing blanks (12 minutes)
	Roger Crooks	VIDEO	Summary of band sawing blanks (5 minute version)
	Jim Spitzer Roger Crooks	VIDEO	Jim Spitzer sanding, clamping and other techniques
	Don Foust	VIDEO	Frank Foust ROUGH OUT video
	Don Foust	VIDEO	Frank Foust SMOOTH OUT video
	Diane Balch	PDF	Photo examples from Diane Balch
	Don Foust	PDF	Presentation slides from Zoom presentation of May 10, 2022
Power Tools for Carvers	Roger Crooks	VIDEO	A presentation and demonstration of power tools used in carving. This covers a very wide range of power tools for both carving and finishing.
How to Carve Wood Spirits	Terry Burnside	VIDEO	A step by step tutorial on carving a traditional wood spirit. This instruction combines techniques of well know wood carvers.
How to Carve Wood Spirits	Terry Burnside	PDF	A companion guide to the video series "How to Carve Wood Spirits" listed above.
Portable Carving Workbench Plans and Description	Larry Wade	PDF	Construction details for the Guild's carving workbenches
Carving the Dog from Beginning to End	Terry Burnside	VIDEO
Carving the Dog from Beginning to End	Terry Burnside	PDF
Linoleum Carving and Printing	Jordan Makower	PDF	Collection of Linoleum carving documents he wrote
Creating and Maintaining Member Photo Albums	Terry Burnside	PDF	A step-by-step how-to guide for creating personal photo galleries. A guild member may create up to 10 albums, each with up to 50 photos.