Hi I’m Ric Seaton and I’m going to be helping you to design and build beautiful and quirky automata that you will just not want to part with.
I have a collection I have made over the years which I will not sell. It’s a sort of hoarding syndrome I suppose, but the process of creation makes them much your family. Watch out for this!
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How to Keep a Good Edge on your Carving Axes
Keeping your tools sharp and in good shape is probably THE most important thing to learn if you want to carve wood well. Keeping a Good Edge on your Carving Axes (Part 1) When I started out all those years ago, I used sub-standard cheap tools and tried to carve wood. The wood split out,…
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‘Canoe with Bird’ Complete. What next…?
Tune in for the next instalment. What will I be building next? Please subscribe to everything I am doing. YouTube, IG and here. As it doesn’t cost anything but you DO get notifications to anything and everything I post. If anybody can suggest how to reduce the jerkiness and extreme movement in this automaton, before…
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Clothes Peg Project Finished.
Took the last slice out of my Wooden Clothes Peg Project yesterday. Here the finished item! Tomorrow I’ll be posting all about my Canoe with Bird Automaton, and how far I’ve progressed with it. I’ll share photos of all the parts laid out prior to assembly, and I’ll be making a video about how to…