Monthly Archives: January 2013

And So It begins…

This is my first project to post on my blog. They are large Nutcrackers made of wood and cardboard. They took waaay too long to build and I’d like to sell them if nothing else, to get them out of my site.

I’m going to break this up into several post so as not to get too unwieldy.

The First post shows cutting the wooden frames.

Nutcracker, Folk art, woodcraft, sculpture

This is how it starts, with a sheet plywood left over from a previous project.

making notches for the uprights with a router.
making notches for the uprights with a router.

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