{"id":178,"date":"2020-09-14T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:28:46","slug":"the-lost-carving-by-david-esterly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/14\/the-lost-carving-by-david-esterly\/","title":{"rendered":"Series 2 Episode 1 &#8211; The Lost Carving by David Esterly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever tried to carve a Celtic weave? Have you ever tried to carve a ball and claw foot? How about a bouquet of flowers sitting on top of a life-sized violin?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I accept that I have some limitations in what I can do with wood. Generally this means minimizing the gaps in dovetail joints. However today\u2019s podcast reviews the Lost Carving by David Esterly<strong>,<\/strong> and he had no such limitations &#8211; in fact it\u2019s safe to say that his work is some of the most spectacular carving I have ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the narrative has two main areas of interest for me. The first is David\u2019s journey from struggling student to master. It\u2019s fascinating to understand how badly he wanted to surpass, understand, excel and match Gibbons work, and the realisations he had about art as he went along this route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether its his begrudging acceptance of sharpening as something he had to do, or the experimentation with different woods, I would suggest that the the book has a resonance with any woodworker. And there are some great quotes and thoughts to go with the story. A favorite of mine was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cat my own workbench I slowly graduated to different kinds of mistakes, The quality of my errors improved\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reminds me in a way of Rogowski\u2019s line of thought that you\u2019re not working on the wood at the bench, you\u2019re working on yourself. Which got me to thinking about the difference between quality and perfection. The book is full of ideas like this, that I think are worth pondering. In fact I\u2019d go as far as to suggest you spread out the book over a few weeks of reading. Read a bit, stop at a logical point, and then spend some time mulling over the thoughts before progressing.It\u2019s a bit like Krenov\u2019s Cabinet Maker\u2019s notebook in that regard. Take your time on the journey &#8211; it will reward a slow an careful reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to listen to the full review, you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or listen here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"[S2-01] The Lost Carving By David Esterly by Hand Tool Book Review\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F891162448&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=640&#038;maxheight=960&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever tried to carve a Celtic weave? Have you ever tried to carve a ball and claw foot? How about a bouquet of flowers sitting on top of a life-sized violin?\u00a0 I accept that I have some limitations in what I can do with wood. Generally this means minimizing the gaps in dovetail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}