The Joy of Wood in Canning Vale, Western Australia | Tutor/teacher

The Joy of Wood

Locality: Canning Vale, Western Australia

Phone: +61 427 770 339

Address: Rear of 31 Canvale Road 6155 Canning Vale, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.thejoyofwood.com.au

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25.01.2022 M returned today with the Shield she had made in her session last fortnight - painted! Hows the Unicorn!? Beautiful job, M. A shield does provide a blank canvas on which to do some like belt artwork. Nice job! #heritagewoodcraftcentre ... #thejoyofwood #privatetuition #swordandshield #unicorn #kidswoodworking See more

24.01.2022 Andre, after previously making his five beautiful dovetailed boxes in his Private Tuition sessions , is now building a modular chook yard! What a contrast! Of course, each panel is a woodworking project in itself, with all the housing joints cut by hand. Each panel, after being painted, will be covered with wire, the funky house made, then the whole thing will be delivered to Andres home where we will assemble it. The completed chook yard will have a footprint of 2.5 m x 1....8m. A nice little size for 4 or 5 hens. Such a wonderful variety of projects are born from the Private Tuition sessions in our workshop. I am looking forward to the surprises in store in 2021! Bring them on! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #chookyard

24.01.2022 We are pleased to announce the Joy of Wood is now a Dealer for BeaverCraft Tools in Australia! We have 7 different carving tools on sale from BeaverCraft so far. With more to come. A short 4 minute video introducing each tool will be found of our YouTube channel. These tools will not be available on our Etsy Shop. They are available instead from our website shop: www.thejoyofwood.com.au/shop... Check them out. BeaverCraft Tools have been made in Ukraine since 2014. The high carbon steel blades come polished to a razor sharp edge, ready to use straight out of the box. We are proud to be making these available to spoon carvers, Kuksa carvers, and other woodcarving enthusiasts in Australia. Interestingly, this further move into retailing is one of the ways our business has adapted to our Covid/post-Covid world. We will all be changed ... ...but traditional skills will live on. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #beavercraft #kuksacarving #spooncarving #woodcarving #tooljoy #beavercrafttools

24.01.2022 Today Felix was very pleased to finish making Football Dad in the style of the Will Hero computer game characters. Felix has put his Dad into the game by the way of this character. His dad loves American Football, so Football has a helmet and his weapon is a football with a spike at the front and a stick of dynamite strapped to the ball! We recycled a pencil to make the stick of dynamite, and the strap was made from a piece of recycled milk formula tin. The football was... whittled from a piece of silky oak, as we used a variety of glues and fixings to hold it all together. Felix is very good at mixing colours to get the paints just right. There was carving, nailing, drilling and more. Making these characters offers so many opportunities to use different tools and techniques - to go from concept drawing to the finished product. He has quite a collection now! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #willhero #kidswoodworking

24.01.2022 Eight year old Ryan carved this spoon recently in his Private Tuition session, and last week he completed it and took it home. The next day he turned 9. Ryan had done a whittling workshop with us some time ago, and he was pleased to apply his memory of how to carve a ball, a finial, on the end of his spoon handle. We love teaching kids whittling skills. We love to see them enjoying using those skills.... Nice work, Ryan! #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #spooncarving #kidswoodworking #whittling #privatetuition

24.01.2022 The Legendary Tyson busy demonstrating and explaining tool use for the making of the paddle boats today with one of the 3 classes of Year 2 students at Floreat Park Primary School today. Run within the STEM curriculum, it is all about Forces and Motion. We just love the look of pure delight on the kids faces when they first let their lackey-powered paddle boats loose on the ponds we have in the class. Gold!... #thejoyofwood #kidswoodworking #schoolincursions #stem #floreatparkprimaryschool See more

23.01.2022 Today nine year old Ryan finished upholstering his stool. He started the stool pre-Covid-19, before the lockdown. On returning to his fortnightly Private Tuition three months later, it was back onto the stool again. He was inspired by a stool in Alison Ospinas book, Green Wood Chairs, but wanted an upholstered top instead. That was his plan from the beginning. The legs had previously been split from a Cape Lilac (Melia azedarach) logs, and he shaped them with a drawknife ...and concave spokeshave on the shaving horse. Then the rails. We used 3/4 ply for the top, as it was to be upholstered. We put a coat of Livos oil on the frame last time, so this time it was ready for the upholstery. That was todays task, and it all went well. Fantastic job, Ryan. Love the blue fabric you chose for it! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #capelilac #stool #kidswoodworking #privatetuition #thejoyofstoolmaking

23.01.2022 I love going to my local Flea Market. It can be a great source of treasure. Tool treasure! I recently found this trio of Dutch -made planes, which date from about 1950. Beautifully made, and the steel in the heavy blades is fantastic quality. Love the brass work in the moving fillister plane. What a score! I love the thrill of the hunt. Some days you get nothing. Some days you strike it lucky... like this! ... Great additions to our teaching workshop space. We love old tools, and we love making them sing again! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #fleamarketjoy #jnooitgedagt #woodenplanes See more

23.01.2022 Hand cutting dovetail joints, as the corner joints for 5 boxes. Andre has a special project, to make 3 Jarrah boxes. We are making a few spare parts, just in case. Hopefully we will end up with a couple of extra boxes from the spares. It is a great process, best done as a batch lot, exploiting the benefits of muscle memory with repetitive actions. It aids accuracy. The other day we cut all the tails, and I showed Andre the trick of using a block cramped to the scribe line, ...to aid perfectly square cleaning up with the chisels. I hadnt used this trick for many years, so it was fun to offer it as an alternative method. The addition of the Moxon Vice made everything easier on the back and the eyes! Love the hand cutting of dovetails. Who needs router jigs? We like to develop and use real skills instead! #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #handskills #privatetuition #dovetails #moxonvice #gentsaw #copingsaw #boxmaking #madebyhand

22.01.2022 Our Public Workshops are back! At least on an interim basis in January/February 2021 as we work around the Covid-19 social distancing measures, which we fully support. We haven't run any public or private workshops since March 2020, due to the Covid-19 discruptions! These are all being held on Saturday mornings, for either 2.5 or 3 hours depending on the workshop. Most of them are for kids and for adults all in teogether, except for the spoon carving ones, which are for adu...lts and young people aged 15+. There is a maximum of 6 people in each workshop, instead of the pre-Covid 12 - so don't delay or you will miss out! You'll find more details in our latest Newsletter, which goes out to over 800 subscribers. Why not Sign up?! Meanwhile, here is the link to our latest Newsletter, which has the Public Workshop Program details in it: https://mailchi.mp//weve-left-2020-behind-lets-look-to-a-b Of course, we have been back running one-on-one Private Tuition for months, but this is different to our public and private workshops. We are doing back-to-back Private Tuition sessions every weekday. Want more into about our Private Tuition? Here is a link for more info: https://www.thejoyofwood.com.au//private-tuition-at-the-h/ You can also get the direct link to the Trybooking site here to book into the workshops: https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/woodworkingworkshops Come share in the joy of traditional hand tool woodworking with us! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #woodworkingworkshops

22.01.2022 Spoon blanks! Spoon carving tools! Spokeshaves! We are open this Saturday morning 19 Dec, so come check out our wares! Come try out our range of BeaverCraft, Kunz, Mora and Kirschen tools. We also have some second hand tools. Come sit and carve with us ! We’d just love to see you anyway... a great chance for some last minute Christmas shopping too. 31 Canvale Road, behind Timbecon.

22.01.2022 It all starts with a full scale drawing on a piece of ply. Rebekah is making a Shaker Style Night Stand. She saw a picture on the internet, and we have created a drawing using those design elements and Rebekahs requirements. In her weekly Private Tuition sessions, Rebekah is learning the process of making this lovely piece, as she goes. Weve previously done the planning and drawing, weve glued up the panels, cut the components to size, and this week we started cutting the... housings for the shelves-which will have decorative tusk tenons protruding through the cabinet sides. Cutting the housings (dados) by hand is made easier with our longest Carcass (Tenon) Saw against a high straightedge to cut the walls, before removing much of the waste with a chisel. Next a Router Plane will be used to clean out the Dados to the correct/consistent depth. Such a great experience, with so many aspects to the construction with different hand tools to be used. Wonderful stuff! Great work, Rebekah! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #handtooljoy #madebyhand

22.01.2022 The very clever Rebekah , in her Private Tuition sessions, recently carved this Back Scratcher from a piece of Black Walnut. It was a Christmas present for a cat lover. Hence the cat’s paw for the scratching end and the mouse carved into the handle end. The mouse even has whiskers, compliments of the workshop hand broom!! What a delightful job you did on this, Rebekah! Such a lovely carving job. Beautiful.... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #madebyhand #woodcarvng #backscratcher #catandmouse See more

21.01.2022 Get Woodcarving! With this set of 11 BeaverCraft Tools! We have compiled a set of tools which will get you started in Spoon Carving, Whittling , Relief Carving and Chip Carving! All in a handy tool roll! This great special deal, with a total price of $360 (with free postage anywhere in Australia) expires 30 January 2021. Stocks limited, so be quick! Normally $425! Available only from our Web Shop: www.thejoyofwood.com.au/shop... #thejoyofwood #beavercrafttools #woodcarving #chipcarving #reliefcarving #whittling

20.01.2022 Renee completed making her Jarrah Cooking Spoon this morning, which she had started in the Private Tuition session last week. It started out as one of the Spoon Blanks which we sell on-line. What a lovely job she did! Renees first spoon! ... Just goes to show that anyone can carve a spoon - even with huge nails! Her mum will be the lucky recipient of this delightful birthday gift. Very nice work! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #madebyhand #spooncarving #jarrahspoon #privatetuition #nice See more

19.01.2022 It was lovely to catch up with the very clever Emily yesterday. She showed my her collection of Covid Spoons which she has made this year. Spectacular!! I am always a sucker funky finials. ... In the pre-Covid era, Emily came to one of our Spoon Carving Workshops. She has never looked back, and just keeps developing her skills and ideas. Beautiful work, Emily. Thankyou for sharing them with me! We look forward to one day being able to run public workshops again. However the virus may still get to WA again. It is only one idiot away... #thejoyofwood #spooncarving #madebyhand

17.01.2022 Holiday carving. A nice little Yellow Tingle Tea Caddy Scoop. Short handle to fit in the jar.

17.01.2022 I love this photo. Rebekah using a mallet and chisel to remove the waste from the dados she is cutting. These will house the shelves in the Shaker -style Night Stand she is making in her weekly Private Tuition sessions. First the walls of the dado are cut with a saw, as in the last post about Rebekahs project. Then the chisel and mallet is used to remove much of the waste, then a Router Plane is used to clean out the bottoms of the Dados to the correct depth. It is a wonde...rful process. In cabinet making terminology, a groove runs parallel to the grain, and a dado runs at right angles to the grain. These dados will house the ends of the shelves. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #madebyhand

16.01.2022 Chook Carving! It was a heap of fun today in our Whittling Workshop. After brushing up our knife skills, we drew our potential chook ideas on our Chook Blanks, and we got to work. Once the shaping was done , we added one some details with a V-tool and some smaller knives. The painting is a lot of fun too! Job done when we seperate the completed chook from the stick! Why chooks? Because it’s a fun thing to do - and while having fun we are developing our knife skills. These s...kills are very valuable when Spoon Carving. That is the public workshop we are offering next weekend. Don’t miss it! I love the way every carved chook is different to the the next! Fantastic fun. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #whittling #chookcarving #madebyhand #kidswoodworking

16.01.2022 Today Pettra finished making her lovely Serving Board. A large piece of Jarrah, it has a brilliant little bowl carved into it. Great for dips, condiments and oils. A very delicious piece, very nicely made. Well done, Pettra! #privatetuition #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #jarrah... #servingboard #carvingjoy #madebyhand See more

15.01.2022 The Long Handled SK2 Hook Knife, by BeaverCraft, is a fantastic tool for hollowing Kuksa (and spoons). It has a 300mm long handle, for powerful two handed action. Here I am trying out a piece of Silky Oak for my latest Kuksa. This is one of a number of BeaverCraft Tools we are pleased to make available to the Australian Spoon Carving Community, as Dealers for BeaverCraft Tools in Australia. Available on our website shop: www.thejoyofwood.com.au/shop These long handled hook k...nives are also great for spoon carving for people with some arthritis in the hands/wrists, or other such conditions where using one hand is a bit tricky. BeaverCraft also have some others hook knives with 200mm handles. Beautiful tools! Check them out on our web site shop! The prices are very reasonable, too. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #beavercrafttools #kuksacarving #hookknife #spooncarving #kuksa See more

15.01.2022 Cirrus. Shes fluffier than the cloud she was named after. A lovely Silky Bantam. So whats the wood connection here? Shes standing in the doorway of our Chook Taj Mahal, which is made from recycled pallet and packing crate material and recycled corrugated iron off-cuts from skip bins. That pile of northern hemispherical softwoods is just a magnet to hungry termites, so the chook house is elevated up on recycled jarrah stumps. Good old-fashioned sheet metal Ant Caps sit on ...the tops of the stumps as a physical barrier to the termites. The softwood bearers are skew nailed to the tops of the Jarrah stumps through the ant caps. This is how all west Australian timber framed houses and stumped floors were built right up until the arrival of the concrete house pad. It still works brilliantly, on stumped floors and walls. Our chook house is a splendour of recycled materials, made more splendiferous by the delightful variety of feathered inhabitants who roost and lay within. #chookhouse #silkybantam #recycledwood #woodrecycling #termitebarrier

14.01.2022 Im at the Fine Timber Companys Open Day in Naval Base. What an amazing array of timber! Some imported from the US and Europe, but most sourced from salvaged trees and plantations. These guys do sustainably sourced beautiful timbers and the variety is mind boggling. Contact details amongst these pics.

14.01.2022 Today Rebekah made great progress on her Shaker Style Night Stand, as we assembled the pieces and inserted the wedges (tusks). In this case the wedges are more decorative than structural, as pounding them in too hard would crack the short protrusions of the main tenons of the shelves. In her next session, Rebekah will cut the dados into the underside of the top so that it houses down onto the top ends of the sides. Great work! Its lookin pretty flash!... #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #privatetuition #madebyhand #shakerstyle See more

14.01.2022 Those annoyingly short rounds cut by Tree-Loppers can be a source for nice eating spoons. Tom made his first Spoon, an Eater in Silky Oak recently, over a couple of sessions. He split the blank out of the chunk, shaped it with the axe, then refined the shape with hook knife and Sloyd knife. He sanded it and wet sanded it with a mix of citrus oils and Tung oil, to a silky smooth finish. All his own work. Lovely. The colours and patterns in the wood are all a product of the ...story of the trees life. This 60 year old tree, from Matthews front yard in Applecross, died standing. The fungal attack on the sapwood on the north side produced these amazing colours. So yummo. This tree might be gone, but it lives on in so many spoons, butter knives, stools, carved animals, spatulas, and more spoons of so many styles and sizes. Very cool. Nice job, Tom. #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #spooncarving #madebyhand #silkyoak #privatetuition

14.01.2022 The Legendary Kiah, age 15, today took home his completed Display Cabinet, made from Jarrah and glass. He made it to house and display his collection of Warhammer Characters. It has a pair of down lights fitted inside the top, has a locking door, and now just needs the glass shelves to be added. What a beautiful piece of work! Congratulations, Kiah, on a job well done! Coming in for Private Tuition fortnightly for just 2 hours a time, it was going to take a while. Then th...ere was the COVID-19 hiatus... so well over a year from when it started, here we are. Job done. It all began from a drawing which Kiah brought in ( shown in one of the pics) and away we went. In the 4 1/2 years that Kiah has been coming to us, this nice young man has made some amazing stuff. However this cabinet is the pinnacle of what he has done with us. Awesome. So it is with some sadness that we say goodby to Kiah for now, as he embarks on his new journey at TAFE. Take care, my friend! Kiah’s fortnightly Thursday session, 10:30-12:30, is now available for somebody else... let us know if you are interested. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #kidswoodworking #kiahthelegend #homeschooling #goodskills #jarrah #warhammer #displaycabinet

13.01.2022 The Legendary Oliver does it again. Today he finished making his Spiral Spoon. They are a mongrel to do all the sanding required. The challenge was compounded by the fact that the Wood was a Spotted Gum -once a piece of decking! Great job, Oli. #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood ... #privatetuition #spooncarving #spottedgum #madebyhand See more

13.01.2022 Our heart goes out to our Victorian friends locked down again due to rising community spread of Covid-19. To help you creatively survive this period, we are offering a special deal : A period of FREE POSTAGE from now until Fri 7 August 2020. For anything purchased from our Etsy Shop, going to a Victorian Postcode. Whittling, spoon carving, and other traditional woodcraft are fantastic ways to spend the time when locked down! What a great activity to engage in with your kid...s, too! Do feel free to share this post! We have a heap of free instructional videos on our YouTube channel: (www.youtube.com/user/thejoyofwood) which might be useful to you too! Meanwhile, please stay safe. #spooncarving #whittling #thejoyofwood #covidcarving #lockdownactivities #lockdownwoodworking #doitwithyourkids

12.01.2022 Look at the fantastic Wands which were crafted in the workshop today! Tyson led an eager bunch of people on a foray into magical woodworking! Awesome job, Gang! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre ... #madebyhand #wandmaking See more

12.01.2022 The Christmas Chook is almost done! Following your collective advice, I painted the boots black. Thankyou. I opted for an off the knife finish. No sandpaper used in the making of this chook. It made the cutting in with the painting trickier, but I’m pretty happy with it.... This Christmas Chook was a lot of fun to carve. You could do one too! We have the Chook Carving blocks on our Etsy shop, and a video on our YouTube channel. Blocks available in either Silky Oak or English Lime. Both lovely to carve. Such cool fun... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #chookwhittling #madebyhand #carvingwood #beavercrafttools #moraknife #carvingtherapy #whittlingjoy

12.01.2022 We were at Floreat Park Primary School today, doing 3 x 90 minute classes of Pre-primary kids. Free Creative Play we did with these kids - with hammers, nails and saws. They made all sorts of goodies and had a ball! Embellishing their creations is always important for kids this age! Great stuff. #thejoyofwood #kidswoodworking #schoolincursion #schoolincursionperth

11.01.2022 We love the variety of things people work on in their Private Tuition sessions. Today Jordan was making a nice big Mancala board on a slab of timber he brought in. Mancala is an ancient strategy board game, one of the oldest such games still played today. This pic shows Jordan using a No.7/25mm gouge to create the series of hollows required for the board. First time using a gouge, and doing it beautifully! Nice work. ... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #mancala #madebyhand See more

10.01.2022 I owe so much to my Dad. This quiet and humble man, Doug Miller, spent a lifetime as a highly skilled CabinetMaker/Joiner. He started his apprenticeship in 1945 and went on to train 11 apprentices in his time. I was not one of them - I was privileged to learn so much more from him in later life, when I was ready to listen to him! He is 91 years old, and cant do what he used to do. His memory is failing, but every now and then little gems emerge from deep within. He has alway...s loved his chooks, and as a kid he wanted originally to be a poultry farmer. This mornings gem, which I had never heard before, came out when we were discussing his eggs: Thats where it all started, he said. As a kid in the war years I used to deliver rolls of twine to people in Dalkeith/Nedlands who were making camouflage nets in their homes. He indicated the sizes were probably 20 x 20. I had a trailer on the back of my bike and I would deliver twine and take away the completed nets. It was a way many people at home could contribute to the war effort. While I was doing these deliveries I realised people would like to buy my eggs. Two bantam eggs cost the same as a bigger egg. Thats how it all started. I asked if he was paid for his deliveries of twine. No, he replied, that was my contribution to the war effort. But I sold a lot of eggs on the side. Love this guy. Happy Fathers Day, Dad. #fathersday #warstories #poultry #fatherstories #eggstories

09.01.2022 Eating Spoons! So much fun to carve and to use. In this latest addition to our YouTube channel, Greg shows how to carve one starting with one of the lovely Silky soak Billets which are available on our online shops. Click on this link: https://youtu.be/9d8p9ConEBk

09.01.2022 Last week William finished constructing his Energy Blade, from the computer game Halo. I reckon we did a pretty good job too. It started out with a computer printout image, which we produced onto a larger piece of pine, using maths (ratios). It was our last session of Private Tuition for 2020, so he took his Power Blade home with him to finish the painting. I look forward to seeing it with the complete paint job! That should be early 2021.... What an amazing array of characters they have made through 2020 - William and his brother Felix -all characters from their favourite computer games. Fantastic! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #halo #kidswoodworking

09.01.2022 I’m working on a Christmas Chook. When I have coloured her, she’ll will have a red Santa hat, with a white ruff and white pom-Pom. Her Santa boots will have white ruffs at the top, but the boots... should they be red or black? What do you think? This has been lots of fun, starting with one of our English Lime Chook Carving Blanks. I’ve carved a lot of chooks before, but never with boots on! Such fun.... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #madebyhand #beavercrafttools #woodcarving #chookcarving #moraknife Did you know we sell lovely BeaverCraft tools I used for this chook on our Webpage shop? www.thejoyofwood.com/shop

09.01.2022 Andre recently completed his very special project. Five beautiful boxes, with hand cut dovetails and brass hardware. He did such a great job. What was the special project? Andre’s Grandfather, who was very special to him, passed away earlier this year. Three boxes were to be used to distribute his ashes amongst the family. We reckon Andres Grandad would be very proud of the quality of the workmanship! ... Funnily enough, I had suggested that we make 5 boxes, and select the best 3 for the special task. However, all 5 were brilliant quality, with beautifully accurate dovetails cut by Andre, nicely fitted hardware, and beautifully finished with Livos Oil. So another similar task has been found in the family for the other two boxes! Andre, what can I say, but: Nice! #privatetuition #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #handcutdovetails #jarrahboxes #madebyhand

08.01.2022 Christmas Chook says: Buk buk! Come on all you last minute Xmas Shoppers! Our Heritage Woodcraft Centre will be open this Saturday Morning, 19 December, with heaps of gifts and goodies to buy. Spoon carving and wood carving tools, spoon blanks, project kits for kids, and more. Kunz Spokeshaves, BeaverCraft tools, and more. Some lovely old used tools too. Come and say Gidday too! Buk buk bugark! Located behind Timbecon, 31 Canvale Road, Canning Vale. Open this Sat 19 Dec fro...m 8:30am - 1:00pm. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #giftsforwoodworkers #christmasiscoming #christmasshopping #spooncarving See more

08.01.2022 1000 followers! Thankyou, everybody who has Followed The Joy of Wood, for your support and your interest. Thanks to everybody else who checks out what we do, who like our posts, and who generally make up the Joy of Wood’s loose on-line community.... Together, you give me the encouragement to keep doing this crazy lovely stuff. Please come with us as we continue this journey, sharing the joy of traditional hand tool woodworking! Thankyou. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #1000followers

07.01.2022 Andre is practicing his skills after learning to hand cut Through Dovetail Joints. He is getting ready to apply these skills to a very special project he will be undertaking soon. On Friday he did his best one yet. Very nice, Andre! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre ... #privatetuition #madebyhand #dovetailjoint See more

06.01.2022 Ben is working on the upstand which will adorn the top of his cabinet. People from the AFL states in Australia will recognise the logo. The cabinet will house Bens collection of Eagles Caps. I cheekily call it his Chook Cabinet. ... Carving the chooks head is a great exercise in relief carving. The lowered inside (grey) area will be stippled, and the background outside area will be gently shaped down to the outline (black). Its going to be pretty speccie, fingers crossed! You are doing a great job, Ben. Legend. Go the Dockers! Haha! #heritagewoodcraftcentre #thejoyofwood #woodcarving #chook #privatetuition

06.01.2022 This week Nathans completed bench was delivered to its home in his little shed. A fantastic bench designed and built to meet his needs, he started making it last year. It sat dormant through our Covid-19 shut down, and when our Private Tuition sessions re-commenced Nathan was able to continue the build and finally finish it! In this YouTube video https://youtu.be/lHqjDsKf-yI Greg Miller shares the delightful features of this bench. Nice work, Nathan!... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #woodworkingbench #jarrah #workbenchjoy #therapeuticwoodworking

06.01.2022 Dont miss this one, West Australians! One of the best opportunities best to get good old traditional tools. With the WA Wood Show having been Covid-cancelled this year (sadly!) this Tool Sale is now your chance to get some wonderful tools. ... Ill race you there!

05.01.2022 Today Ryan completed making the bed for his dog, Winston. He has been making it in his fortnightly Private Tuition sessions with us. A nice way to wrap up the year. It will be interesting to see what he makes when he returns in January!... Great job, Ryan. We love the heart shaped doorway and the bone shaped viewing hole in the removable top! Very cool. Winston’s new bed will be in Ryan’s room next to his bed. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #kidswoodworking #madebyhand #dogbed

05.01.2022 Nathan is putting the final coat of Tung Oil on his Bench! This morning we fitted the tool rack, so we are nearly there! Soon the bench will be taken to Nathans house to take up residence in his shed... Id rather we kept it here! Its a beauty, especially made to suit his requirements. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #benchjoy ... #privatetuition #letmekeepit See more

05.01.2022 Cajon Drums for Christmas ! Don’t miss this opportunity for a last minute Christmas gift! www.thejoyofwood.com.au #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre ... #cajondrum #drummingjoy See more

05.01.2022 A few more pics of the Tea Caddy Scoop, to show some detail. For interest and contrast, the back of the scoop’s bowl was left with tool facets, and the rest of it was sanded smooth. For the benefit of those not familiar with it, the wood is Yellow Tingle (Eucalyptus guilfoylei), one of 3 Tingle Tree species (Nyungar name: Dingil Dingil), endemic to a tiny high rainfall part of the south west of Western Australia, near the town of Walpole. The Tingles are iconic to that pa...rt of the world. You’ll be please to know this wood came from a tree in a small private plantation. These tea and coffee scoops are such fun to make. We have them available on our Etsy Shop, in many different timbers. These scoops make lovely gifts too! #thejoyofwoodstoreonetsy #holidaycarving #thejoyofwood #spooncarving #madebyhand #yellowtingle

05.01.2022 Kitchen Spatulas are fun to design and make. Starting with one of our Spatula Blanks, it can all be done with a Sloyd Knife, like the Mora 120 pictured. If you are learning whittling or carving, spatulas are a great way to get used to working with the grain direction, and the application of good knife skills. These blanks are available on our Etsy Shop, and we also have a great video of how to do it, on our YouTube channel. Whittling and crafting with our hands is great fun a...nd very relaxing. Even better when you do it together. Whittling is a very positive activity for kids too. Its great when kids and parents/grandparents do it together. Whether sitting around a campfire, or holed up in your apartment because of COVID-19, whittling is a delightful pastime! www.etsy.com/au/shop/thejoyofwoodstore Of course, you can always use a coping saw, a Vice and a spokeshave! That works too for kitchen spatulas. #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #whittling #kitchenspatulas #getwhittling #moraknife #madebyhand

05.01.2022 In Private Tuition this week, William made this lovely pine Kitchen Chopping Board. After drawing the shape on the piece of wood, he cut it out with a Coping Saw. He then used a Spokeshave and a Rasp to clean up the edges followed by the Squirrel Tail Plane and sandpaper. With the coat of oil applied, he had lots to smile about! Great job, William!... #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #kidswoodworking #madebyhand #privatetuition See more

04.01.2022 This is my current favourite shape for Kitchen Spatulas, the very curvy ones. This pair in Jarrah I cooked up this afternoon while Tom made his Jarrah spatula in his Private Tuition session. We sell these Kitchen Spatula blanks on our Etsy Shop. So much fun to design, to make and to use! They make fantastic gifts too! You can also play with various hand tool techniques too. Nothing electric, of course!!... Love making these! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #jarrah #madebyhand #thejoyofwoodstoreonetsy See more

04.01.2022 Grabbing a moment to do a bit more carving on my Norwegian Ale Hen. Shes moving slower than Id like, but we are getting there, at bit here and a bit there. Life sometimes gets a bit crazy, and moments carving wood I find to be very calming. I love this BeaverCraft set of Compact Carving Tools shown here (set: SC03). I bought in a couple of these kits to try them out, and they are fantastic. There are 7 tools which come in a nifty cloth roll with a leather strop and a stick... of abrasive compound. Fantastic value for money, this whole set will soon be able to be purchased from us from our web store. Not available on our Etsy Store, you have to go to our web store to find these and the other BeaverCraft tools we carry now that we are delighted to be Australian dealers for BeaverCraft. www.thejoyofwood.com.au/shop #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #alehen #beavercrafttools #woodcarving #therapeuticcarving

04.01.2022 My Silky Oak Kuksa took a turn to the unexpected tonight. First up, last week I had to cut a big piece off the top as a crack had developed. It went from a Kuksa to more of a Soup Bowl. Tonight I was working on the outside and all of a sudden the notion of an Ale Hen infected my mind. So the handle developed a comb, eyes and a beak. The other pencil lines tell of probable future developments, making it even more Ale Hen. The low head must mean its on the nest laying low as a... fox snoops around! This Kuksa started pre-COVID-19, in February. Along came the virus, the lock down, and everything changed. It was in a plastic bag in the fridge, all these months later - covered in green mould. An eco-system in itself. So I got back into carving the Kuksa and the story has been gradually unfolding over the last couple of weeks. Quite an adventure. The wood is still remarkably very green. I am just letting it dry out in the workshop now. We are on the home straight. Fingers crossed! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #kuksacarving #alehen #carvingadventures #madebyhand

03.01.2022 While Ryan has been making his upholstered 4 legged stool with foot rails, his Mum has been making a lovely Lund Stool, also from Cape Lilac (white Cedar to you people on Australias Eastern Seaboard). Today she finished her stool, and coated it also with Livos Oil. Such a beautiful stool!! Nicely made too. Thats two stools completed today and taken home. #thejoyofwood ... #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #thejoyofstoolmaking #lundstool #capelilac See more

03.01.2022 Today Ben finished making the upstand for his cabinet, which will house his collection of West Coast Eagles and other caps. He has done a great job with the relief carving of the Chooks Head (as I call it) and after finishing the carving today he finished shaping the top of the upstanding. It looks pretty good up there on the cabinet! He has been working on this cabinet in his weekly Private Tuition sessions. There was a couple of months gap during our Covid-19 lockdown, b...ut we are progressing again. Very nice, Bennie! Youre a star! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #chookshead #woodcarving See more

03.01.2022 Andre was pretty chuffed today when the first of the dovetail joints came together. Only 19 to go! It is very satisfying cutting dovetail joints by hand. Andre is doing a great job. We are doing enough components to create 5 boxes, of which the best 3 will be chosen for a very special project. Nice! #thejoyofwood ... #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #madebyhand #dovetails #gentssaw #copingsaw #jarrah See more

02.01.2022 Ben is building a gate for his Jarrah staircase in his Private Tuition sessions. The Milo Gate is to keep Milo the Pug from going up the stairs at times. The sloping top will ensure the gate will swing back against the wall in underneath and parallel to the handrail on the wall. With all the balusters mortices chopped, and the mortise and tenons cut for the gate frame corners, it’s time to make the balusters. These will be turned and fluted to match the existing staircase... . This week Ben will begin turning the gate balusters on the lathe. It’s gonna be fun! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition

02.01.2022 I love it when people share with us pics of the spoons they have made from our spoon blanks. So I was stoked when Helen sent these pics today of 4 completed Coffee Scoops. So nice! The second pic shows a random assortment of the Coffee Scoop Blanks like we have for sale, in various woods. When you buy a pair of these blanks, you get one of each profile, in random different lovely woods. ... You will find these Coffee Scoop Blanks and much more here: www.etsy.com/au/shop/thejoyofwoodstore Great job, Helen. Well done indeed! Love your work... #thejoyofwood #coffeescoop #spooncarving #madebyhand #woodforspooncarvers #thejoyofwoodstoreonetsy

02.01.2022 Love the No.53 Spokeshave! A joy to use... #thejoyofwood #spokeshave #kunztools #handtools

01.01.2022 Felix added another character to his extensive collection of computer game characters, when he finished making Key Golem earlier this week. Minecraft fanatics will know this one! It is such a great process - planning, making , and then painting these characters. Great work once again, Felix! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre ... #privatetuition #kidswoodworking #keygolem See more

01.01.2022 Did we get your attention? LOOK! We are offering a free upgrade to Express Post for all orders placed with either of our on-line shops, up to Christmas Eve. We want to help get your goodies faster through the pre-Christmas Postal Log Jam. We are sending tools and wood to spoon carvers and other budding woodworkers all over Australia. We have two on-line shops: ... www.etsy.com/au/shop/thejoyofwoodstore www.thejoyofwood.com.au/shop We can’t guarantee your order will get to you before Christmas, but we are doing all we can at our end to get them there! Merry Christmas! This Monarch Butterfly (also known as the Wanderer Butterfly) I photographed in my Mums front yard in Augusta, WA, this afternoon. Did you know they are not native to Australia? First sighted in Sydney in 1871, they spread with several introduced weed species which were their food source.

01.01.2022 This is an appeal to all those tree loving people out there. What species might this Acacia be? Pics of leaves, bark and Wood may help. A large smallish tree(!) Im told, it was growing in one of Perths southern suburbs. It has round yellow flower clusters, not the catkin type. As I split and sawed up the Wood, it had a very strong smell- almost an ammonia smell. Can anybody help with identification possibilities? It would be most appreciated. I was gifted 2chunks of this tree after it was cut down. Lovely Wood!

01.01.2022 For those who want to know if we are offering workshops in the July School Holidays...

01.01.2022 Andre has made some lovely spoons over the last couple of years, but this one is a ripper! A beautiful piece of Tasmanian Blackwood which grew in the Southwest of WA. Such a beautiful piece of wood! Contrasting heartwood, sapwood and spalting. Lovely colours, a nice design, and of course his trademark expression: Nice. This is one of your best yet, Andre. Legend. Thanks Derek (@thefinetimberco) for the delicious Wood! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuiti...on #spooncarving #madebyhand See more

01.01.2022 This week Rebekah made some great progress on her Shaker inspired Night Stand. She successfully chopped the four mortises for the tusk tenons of the shelves, and fitted the shelves into their dados. Great job, Rebekah! #thejoyofwood #heritagewoodcraftcentre #privatetuition #madebyhand